Olivia Jenkins must be speculating about the issue of children, she thought arbitrarily.
Perhaps Olivia assumed he was still in love with Charmy Bennett, still yearning for Charmy.
Daniel Marshall's brows furrowed, a poignant ache in his heart. His deep-set eyes conveyed a touch of sadness, making his complexion even paler.
It wasn't that he didn't like children, nor that he didn't want children, he was truly terrified the tragedy would occur again.
If it required trading Olivia's life for a child, he would rather remain childless.
Unwittingly, Daniel's mind was again haunted by the image of a pool of blood, instilling an inexplicable apprehension in him.
Even if he had resolved to have a child, the indelible image of the bloody scene and Charmy's horrifying death would reemerge in his mind, displacing his desires to have a child.
Daniel had wrestled with this, he had also tried to breach the emotional defenses he'd constructed, but he had failed each time.
