Chapter 1200: Chapter 1179: Are You Reliable? Chapter 1200: Chapter 1179: Are You Reliable? But no matter how painful it was, what could she do about it?

Who asked her to fall in love with a playboy and exhaust every scheme to be with him? This was what she deserved.

“No choice, I’m getting older, and my reputation wasn’t good before. Having a stepfather is already very good, at least someone to take care of my last rites!” the man chuckled lowly, “What do you think, Maya? Why not consider it? After all, your man isn’t reliable. He hasn’t married you after all these years, and now his ex-wife shows up; I think you better give it up and consider me instead!”

“The man isn’t reliable?”

Maya, as if she had heard the biggest joke, a slight, indifferent smile swept across her lips, “And you think you are?”

“We were not suitable before, and now it’s even more inappropriate. Mr. Stones was just spurred momentarily. I shall act as if I never heard what was said today!”

And you think you are?

Graham Stones’s heart felt as if it had been struck by a sharp dagger, pain bleeding profusely and spreading a pungent agony across his chest.

She still didn’t trust him, preferring to suffer alone with her child rather than give this prodigal a chance to turn back, even though he was willing to be a stepfather.

Graham Stones didn’t speak again, but just leaned weakly in his seat, the thin, cool smile on his lips seeming almost to bleed.

Forget it, this outcome was inevitable. She was different from other women; other women fell for him because of his sweet-talking lips, while the reason she dumped him was precisely because of his insincere, sweet-talking lips!

If only I had known this before!

This was what Graham Stones wanted to tell himself at that moment.

“There is turbulence ahead; the airplane may experience severe jolts. Please prepare yourselves and remain calm…”

Maya was jolted awake by these words. In an instant, the color drained from her face as if sucked away, leaving her complexion deathly pale and her body trembling slightly. She had never liked flying; trains, cars, ships, as long as there were other means of transport, she would never choose an airplane. But this time, she had no choice.

“Maya…”

With such a loud disturbance, and the two sitting close, Graham Stones naturally noticed her distressed expression, “Don’t be nervous, we just hit some turbulence. It’s a common occurrence, nothing will happen!”

Experiencing turbulence in an airplane was all too common, and Graham Stones had never been concerned about it before. Seeing her pale face, he assumed she was afraid of the shaking due to airsickness, “It won’t last long, it’ll pass soon!”

“It’ll pass soon?”

Maya looked at him blankly, beads of sweat faintly visible on her pale forehead, her lips trembling as she murmured, “It won’t, it can’t get through, it’s all over, it’s all over, what about Tanya? She’s still so young, she can’t be without Mommy, she can’t be without Mommy…”

Graham Stones: “…”

Just because of some turbulence, she was this frightened?

“Maya!”

The woman’s trembling shoulders were steadied, Graham Stones staring at her unflinchingly, “It’s just ordinary turbulence, there won’t be any danger, don’t think…” He still had two more words to say when the airplane suddenly began to lurch violently. The unexpected turbulence caught Graham Stones entirely off-guard, causing him to crash headfirst into Maya’s chest, his head resting against her soft bosom.

Stimulated intensely by the soft undulations, Graham Stones felt an electric current surge through his entire body. A desire he hadn’t experienced in years escalated to its peak in an instant, yet a mere look was enough to completely extinguish the lust burning within him.

“Tanya, Mommy is sorry, Mommy can’t be with you anymore…”

The woman seemed oblivious to how suggestive his gesture had been, merely trembling all over, murmuring as if she wasn’t fully conscious. The airplane was still shaking violently, and the continuous screams kept erupting intermittently. The calming announcements in the cabin were also sounding nonstop, but it was as if the woman heard none of it, just shivering and muttering to herself as if living in a fear of her own making.

This version of Maya Sanders was something he had never seen during the year and a half they had been together, resembling a forewarning panic caused by a major trauma…

“Maya, wake up, wake up, Tanya is fine!”

Graham Stones admitted he was frightened by her expression and instinctively pulled her tightly into his arms, holding her close, “It’s okay, I’m here, I won’t let anything happen to the airplane!”

Compared to his previous experiences, the turbulence on this flight was not severe, the likelihood of an accident was indeed very slim.

“No, if the airplane has an accident, no one can help, my father said the same to my mother, and still, an accident happened, leaving me alone. I don’t want Tanya’s childhood to be like mine…”

Upon hearing this, Graham Stones stiffened, her parents died in an airplane crash?

So, her innate panic towards airplanes was due to the shadow left by losing her parents in her childhood.

God, what had he been doing? He knew she was afraid of flying, disliked airplanes, and back when they were good together, he had never taken her on one, yet he had never realized that behind her fear of flying, there lay such a deep story.

And he had known nothing!

No wonder she was so resolute when she suggested breaking up; it turned out he had never offered her any warmth!

“I’m sorry, Maya!”

I’m sorry, I should have been there to help you overcome this sooner, instead of letting you struggle alone in this panic. “The airplane will soon pass through the turbulent layer, trust me, I’ve been on countless flights, and you know, my flying skills are pretty good, so, Maya, trust me, this minor turbulence is not enough to cause an accident!”

He can fly airplanes?

Yes, he seemed to have a private jet. In fact, he and Roy Thompson played with airplanes better than most people raced cars, normal pilots were no match for him.

The deadpan and panicked look on Maya Sanders’ face finally warmed a bit, she looked up at him, his demeanor calm and natural, not tense at all, before she asked, “Really, it will be okay?”

“Of course, I haven’t even gotten married yet. If there really was a problem, I would definitely kick the captain out of the cockpit and fly it myself!”

Graham Stones smiled faintly, his long fingers brushing by his eyes, wiping away the tears at the corners of her eyes, “I didn’t know you would be this scared, I’m sorry!”

“I…I…I wasn’t scared, just…just nervous, that’s all!”

The airplane’s turbulence did not stop, her body couldn’t relax.

“Then be good, don’t be nervous anymore, I promise the plane will land safely!”