Tempting My Rented Boyfriend - Chapter 221

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“Brother! You can make babies later! Come! It’s time for Santa Claus’s visit!” Eleanor visited from the hall. The house was decorated with Christmas decorations. And everything looked magical and dreamy. Eleanor wanted the decorations to be made similar to a fairytale.

The time was about to tick twelve in the midnight. From her fairytales she heard, Santa would come at midnight exactly. There were only two minutes left for it.

Everyone held their heads feeling annoyed. But they couldn’t show it out.

“Ele, babe, you don’t believe in Santa Claus, right? Why are we waiting here?” Myna asked carefully in a low voice.

“Today I believe! You got a problem!” she snapped.

“Ok. I got no problem. Let’s wait. Only one minute left,” Myna said with a fake smile. These days Eleanor’s pregnancy hormones were getting out of control. If they oppose her words she would cry. They were at a dead-end. While Mason started taking notes of everything Eleanor did and didn’t. When Oliver and Valene asked why he was taking notes, he replied that he was preparing himself for his future. Valene and Oliver realized they turned dumb for a while, but again even they followed Mason and started taking notes.

On the other hand, the one who took most of the burn was Cedric. He has to deal with her every new tantrum every second. They prayed to God that he would be blessed with strength and mental health.

Every second passed with great difficulty, everyone held their breath as the clock ticked. Only five seconds left for the clock to strike 12. A. M.

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Everyone snapped their heads toward Eleanor but only to find she was caressing her belly.

“Did you see that, baby? Santa is a liar. He won’t come. So, when you are born, don’t listen to Santa Claus’s stories, okay?” even though she didn’t get any moment from her womb. She smiled.

“So, now mommy is tired. Let’s go and sleep,” she said as she caressed her tummy.

“Ele, baby. You did this to prove that Santa won’t come on Christmas to the baby?” Myna asked with a stunned expression.

“Yesh!” Eleanor said.

“But baby can’t hear anything till you reach the third month,” Myna explained.

“Oh! Then I must have wrongly remembered that baby can hear and remember from the second month,” Eleanor said.

Everyone sighed at her.

“I am hungry,” she said sheepishly.

“What do you want to eat?” Oliver asked getting up from his seat.

“Brother, you go make babies. Cedric will take care of me,” Eleanor said.

“What do you want to eat?” Cedric asked.

“I want to eat something sour,” she said with a big smile. Cedric nodded and left. He went to make sour chicken noodles for her. There were already sour chicken noodles. He just needed to heat them.

After heating the noodles, he handed the bowl to Eleanor with a fork. Meanwhile, others left for their rooms to sleep.

Eleanor put her bowl aside and looked at the tree. She joined her hands intertwining her fingers in front of the tree.

“Dear Santa, give all the happiness, health, love, and care to my child. And give all his bad things, troubles, and his grief to me.” Eleanor prayed.

“Also, I wish everyone around me gets settled with their loved ones. And my brother, let him be healthy and have a family of his own. Let my biological father give up whatever bad thoughts he has and let everyone have happiness.

“And my final wish is… I want to celebrate every Christmas along with the people around me now and my family,” Eleanor prayed. She didn’t know that Cedric didn’t go to his room but lurked around to take care of her. But he heard everything she prayed. His eyes watered at her prayer. She was such a silly girl to pray about everyone but not about her.

Eleanor picked her bowl and continued eating again. After she was done, she placed the bowl on the table. Cedric wanted to go over but something in his heart asked him to stop.

“Baby, I don’t know if you can hear me or not. But… remember when you grow up, you should have people around you to take care of. Even though I don’t have people who are related to me by blood, I hope you can make lots of friends so that you won’t feel like an orphan without a mother and father. I don’t know why your grandma left me, but I never wished to see her. I know… momma is a bad guy. I craved love wherever I can get it.

“No one knew there is still a part of your mom yearned for your grandma’s care. But she never got it. But remember momma will not abandon you, no matter what. You are momma’s precious, baby,” Eleanor said as she patted her stomach.  She took a sip of water from the bottle on the table.

Before Cedric could come out, she got up and left to her room to sleep. Cedric took the dirty bowl and washed it. He went to her sleep to see how she was doing. Seeing her fast asleep, he went towards her. She protectively put her hands around her belly as if she was protecting her baby from everyone. If one thinks from her point of view, she was pitiful.

She was living on someone’s kindness and love. The most bitter thing in the world was receiving kindness unnecessarily and getting sympathized. Even being hated was good than feeling these things. People won’t hate you, scold you or beat you but would sympathize with you and pity you. This feeling can make a person go astray. Even Jessica Cole was someone like that. She hated Eleanor because she was pitying her or sympathizing with her.

Even her first love with her because of Eleanor’s pity. She got her studies, her family was living her kindness, everywhere she went she was called exclusive beggar, she asked Eleanor to stop helping her but one way or other they needed help from her. The helplessness and the feeling of being useless developed the negativity that she had on society. But the negativity came from Eleanor’s kindness, she hated her. She transferred all the negativity she has on society to Eleanor.

But again… not everyone deserves kindness. Help should be offered when others asked for it. A volunteer helps make others take advantage of you.

Cedric sat beside her and removed her hands. “Baby, daddy is a bad guy. Mommy is good. But from now on daddy will be a good boy and won’t trouble momma. Just ask momma to give daddy a second chance,” he said.

Cedric wanted to spend some time with Eleanor and his baby, while he waited he fell asleep beside her. Involuntarily he hugged her to sleep. That was the night Cedric fell asleep soundly after a long while.

Even Eleanor fell asleep deeply after a while. She felt protected, warm, and safe in his arms. She snuggled closer to him burying her face in his chest.. Eleanor didn’t have any nightmare that night.