Still Loving You Nonetheless

Ysabelle quickly interrupted her, “Nia, stop making your daddy angry.”

Walking over to Nia, Ysabelle bent over to help her get off the floor. “Nia, Josiah is really not your father, and the paternity test results said so too.”

Staring at Josiah’s cold expression, she asked, confused, “What is a paternity test result?”

“It’s a test to find out if Josiah is your real daddy.”  Making her way to Josiah, Ysabelle then asked, “Josiah, what are you doing here at the hospital?”

“I’m here to meet with Yena’s doctor.” Josiah took a glance at Nia and asked, “And you? What are you doing here?”

Josiah was not interested in Ysabelle’s whereabouts but he found it strange that Ysabelle had shown up at the hospital with Meredith’s daughter when Ysabelle and Meredith were clearly enemies.

Josiah vaguely remembered that Ysabelle did not fancy children either. It was as if Ysabelle had read his mind, she quickly put on a kind-hearted and considerate persona.

Holding Nia’s hands in hers, she explained, “Josiah, promise me you won’t get angry. It’s just that I see how Meredith has been missing her daughter badly and I wanted to let her meet Nia.”

Josiah asked, “You’re planning to bring her to my place?”

“I’m sorry…I only wanted for them to meet for a short while and I’d bring her back here after that.”

Glancing at Nia who was staring at him with her big eyes, Josiah announced, “She is not welcomed in my house. Send her back to her room.”

He then headed for the lift. Nia ran up to Josiah, tugged at the corner of his shirt, and pleaded, “Daddy! Wait for me…I want to be with you and Mommy.”

Josiah stopped in his tracks, looked down at Nia whose eyes were welled up with tears, and said, “I am not your Daddy.”

“You’re lying! If you’re not my dad, then why are you together with Mommy?”

Nia clearly saw the picture with Josiah and Meredith together earlier.This belongs © NôvelDra/ma.Org.

Ysabelle was worried that Nia would say something wrong so she quickly pulled out the tag hanging around Nia’s neck and said, “Nia, he is really not your Daddy. Look here, if he is your dad, then why did your mom say that he is a bad guy?” “But that’s not what you said just now,” sniffled Nia.

And indeed, Josiah could now see the contents on the tag clearly. And on the tag, Josiah was listed as the number one bad guy that Nia needed to avoid.

Meredith, who had claimed that Nia was her biological daughter and had even tricked him to run a paternity test, had secretly warned Nia to stay away from him. Gritting his teeth, anger gripped Josiah as he stared intently at Nia and seethed, “Look at the tag. As it says, I am not your dad.”

Josiah then walked into the lift. Frustrated, Nia was now stomping her legs on the ground, crying, “You are my dad! You are! Daddy, don’t leave me here all alone…daddy…”

Seeing that the lift was moving up the floors, Ysabelle turned to look at Nia and scoffed,” What’s the use in crying? You are nothing but a b*stard’s child.”

Stomping her leg, Nia argued, “I am not! Why are you saying that I’m a b*stard’s child too!” Annoyed, Ysabelle dragged Nia into another lift and said, “Go back to your ward. It’s your lucky day today.”

“Aren’t you going to bring me to see Mommy?” sniffled Nia. Nia was puzzled as to why it was that her father did not want her and she was not able to meet her mother anymore.