Chapter 181: Amelia is an HIV Carrier
When James heard "Amelia," the hostility in his eyes intensified. "Speak!"
His voice was like ice, chilling to the bone.
"Amelia is an HIV carrier."
She had only found this out by chance after returning to Imperial City and following Amelia every day.
When James heard that Amelia was an HIV carrier, his pupils dilated instantly. He was completely stunned, as if struck by lightning. "What did you say?"
Amelia actually had AIDS!
His mind immediately went to that night with Amelia a few months ago.
Overwhelming panic instantly engulfed him.
A chill shot up from the soles of his feet.
He couldn't help but ask again.
He had heard it clearly, but deep down he held onto a sliver of hope that he had heard wrong!
"Mr. Smith, I'm not lying. Amelia really is an HIV carrier."
Mabel suppressed the fear in her heart and repeated it once more.
She thought James didn't believe her!
She actually could have kept quiet about it.
But he had spared her life.
She knew that last night James and Mia must have been intimate.
There was a possibility Mia could get pregnant.
If James and Mia also became carriers, they wouldn't be suitable to have children.
"When did she get infected?"
James squeezed out these words from his throat with great difficulty.
A tiny bit of hope still remained in his heart.
Maybe she got infected after that night?
"Amelia was already infected before she returned to the country!"
Mabel's words made James close his eyes in agony.
"Mr. Smith, if there's nothing else, I'll leave now."
After speaking, seeing that James said nothing, Mabel consciously backed away and left.
The office door closed again.
The soft sound of the door closing brought James back to his senses. With trembling hands, he reached for his phone to call Mia.
......
Shortly after Mia got in the car, her phone rang again.
Seeing it was James again, thinking of his shameless behavior just now, she figured nothing good would come from his call.
She put it on silent and held it in her hand, letting the call disconnect automatically.
As soon as it hung up, it rang again.
The second time, it disconnected automatically again.
Then a third time.
Mia was completely speechless.
Was he never going to stop?
Looking at the flashing number on the screen, Mia slid to answer with an unhappy expression.
"James, what now? I'm warning you, if you say any more nonsense, I'll block you immediately."
Her tone sounded impatient, but there was a hint of playful reproach in her voice that even she didn't notice.
The driver in front glanced back through the rearview mirror, a knowing smile crossing his face.
After she finished scolding him, she noticed James was silent. She thought the call had disconnected automatically.
She brought the phone to her face to check - it still showed they were connected. She said irritably, "James, if you have something to say, say it. If not, I'm hanging up!"
She said she was hanging up, but she didn't actually hang up. She was waiting to hear what James wanted to say.
What Mia didn't expect was that after waiting so long, all she got from James was: "Mia, did you take the pill?"
When those words reached her ears, her expression froze instantly.
What did he say?
He called her over and over again just to ask if she took the pill?
He actually called specifically to remind her to take the morning-after pill!
Since the divorce, James's words and actions had made her think he truly loved her.
Everything he did conveyed one message - he wanted to get back together with her.
She never doubted his feelings for her.
She didn't dare take a step forward, partly because of the situation with Amelia, but most importantly because she was afraid.
Afraid of how long his feelings would last, afraid of getting hurt. She was scared of the pain - she was truly terrified of it.
But now, with one sentence, James had completely destroyed all her assumptions.
A nameless anger rose from her belly. Mia's expression grew darker inch by inch, and the heart that had just been slightly wavering instantly plummeted.
She said coldly to James on the other end of the phone: "You don't need to call specifically to remind me."
"The first thing I did after leaving your place at noon was go to the pharmacy to buy and take the pill. I said before that no matter how much I like children, I won't have your child. I haven't forgotten that!"
After Mia finished speaking, without waiting for James to say anything more, she cut off the call.
Still not satisfied after hanging up on James, she directly added his number to her blacklist, then vented her anger by throwing her phone hard onto the back seat. She was extremely annoyed.
This nameless anger came on strong. She shouldn't have been angry, really.
But she couldn't control it.
She had done something as childish as blocking him.
The ripples that James had stirred up in her otherwise calm heart these past few days now seemed like a complete joke.
"Sir, please pull over up ahead, thank you."
Mia saw a large pharmacy not far away. After asking the driver to pull over, she grabbed her phone and pushed open the car door.
Standing by the roadside, looking at the pharmacy in the distance, Mia unconsciously raised her hand to her lower abdomen, her fingertips gently caressing it.
She didn't know if a small life was already about to grow inside her belly.
From the moment she woke up until James called, she hadn't considered taking the pill at all.
What she said just now was only because she was too angry and spoke without thinking.
Deep down, she knew clearly - she hadn't really forgotten. She was just deliberately ignoring it.
That's why when James called to remind her to take the pill, she got so angry.
Deep in her heart, she couldn't deny that she really wanted to make up for this regret.
The pain of losing her baby - even though she had tried hard to let go, it still hadn't healed.
In the quiet of the night, occasionally she would still think about the baby she lost, and when she did, she would still feel sad.
She now had a financial foundation, and things would only get better in the future.
She was confident she could raise a child on her own.
But now...
Standing there, Mia was silent for a long while, but ultimately decided to go to the pharmacy to buy the pill.
He didn't want her to have his child. She would have another chance to become a mother in the future.
......
After Mia hung up on him, James immediately called back, wanting to explain.
The moment he heard Mia's voice suddenly turn cold, he knew she had misunderstood what he meant.
He had just learned that Amelia was an HIV carrier. After that night with Amelia, he and Mia had been intimate more than once.
His mistake hadn't just caused Mia psychological harm - now even physically...
If he got infected, he deserved it, but he had also dragged Mia into it.
Mia had already been affected by him. He felt so guilty he wanted to kill himself.
He couldn't let their child be affected too.
Although the chance of getting pregnant from one time was small, he was still worried that since he hadn't used protection last night, Mia might actually be pregnant.
If this had been before he knew about this, how happy he would have been if she got pregnant!
But now—
He had been too shocked just now, his emotions too volatile, which is why he hadn't expressed himself clearly and caused Mia to misunderstand.
James called again and heard the voice prompt: "The number you have dialed is currently on another call."
He frowned.
What's going on?
He tried again.
Just then, Robert knocked and came in.
Seeing James's furrowed brow, he stood to the side waiting.
James ignored Robert and continued calling Mia.
Robert could hear the prompt.
The first time he didn't hear it clearly.
The second time he heard it clearly but wasn't quite sure.
The third time, after confirming, when James dialed again and got the busy signal, he spoke up: "Mr. James Smith, have you been blocked by Mrs. Mia Smith?"
"What's a blacklist?"
For James, a phone was just for making and receiving calls. He never blocked anyone on his personal phone, and certainly no one had ever blocked him.
Hearing "blacklist," he looked completely confused.
Robert briefly explained what a blacklist was to James.
But deep down, he still didn't believe it.
How could Mia possibly put him on a blacklist?
According to Robert's explanation, you only put someone on a blacklist if you really disliked them.
How could Mia possibly dislike him?
James pulled over the desk phone and dialed Mia's number.
It went through.
The moment the call connected, James hung up and tried again with his cell phone.
Again, the prompt followed by a busy signal.
He really had been blocked.
James was completely speechless.
He had just expressed himself wrong, and she actually blocked him!
After the divorce, Mia had really become more and more assertive around him.
If this were before, he would definitely be very angry, annoyed at Mia's disobedience.
But now, the more spirited she was, the happier he was.
Only, now wasn't the time to be happy.
He picked up the desk phone and dialed Mia's cell phone again.
Mia had just bought the pill from the pharmacy and taken it.
Coming out of the pharmacy, her phone rang once, and she had calmed down.
Blocking James was such a childish thing to do.
She had only done it in a moment of inexplicable anger.
Now that she had calmed down, she didn't want to admit she had been angry at him.
Even if it was true, she didn't want to admit it.
She was just about to quietly remove him from the blacklist before he noticed.
Unexpectedly, just as she was about to do it, the phone rang again.
While operating her phone, she accidentally answered the call. "Hello, this is Mia. Who's this?"
She only remembered James's cell number, not his office number.
"It's me!"
Mia was obviously stunned when she heard James's voice.
How is it him?
Just as she was about to respond, she heard James ask, "Why did you block me?"
Why did she block him? Didn't he know?
"I just wanted to block you. What are you going to do about it?"