All Too Late

Chapter 21 Why Is He Not Good Enough

Kathleen was having a fitful sleep when she was awoken by a bitingly cold presence.

Her gaze landed on Samuel, who was standing by her bed.

She was overcome with nerves and disbelief that he had actually returned.

Samuel regarded the squeamish Kathleen in an icily condescending manner. “You’re pregnant?”

“No. Who told you that? Do you deny the lab test results?” Kathleen bit back as she worried her bottom lip.

“Then what is it that you’re looking at?” retorted Samuel as he pointed at the tablet.

Kathleen pursed her lips. “I had promised to help Gemma out tomorrow by volunteering at a charity home advocating for autistic children. Do you find fault in me doing some background research beforehand?”

That managed to convince Samuel.

“What time will you be leaving tomorrow?” asked Samuel dispassionately.

“I plan to reach by ten o’clock.”

Kathleen secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

That was a close call. Her pregnancy was almost revealed.

“Are you certain you’re not pregnant?” Samuel reiterated.

“Of course. When have I skipped my birth control pills?” deadpanned Kathleen.

“That trip to the hot springs two months prior.” Samuel could still recall it vividly.

Well, that was true indeed.

Kathleen had decided to head to the hot springs on a whim while Samuel had been there on a job inspection. Neither she nor Samuel had an inkling that either party would be present, yet both had met out of sheer coincidence.

It had only taken Samuel one look at Kathleen, enticingly flushed and bundled up in a bathrobe, for him to ravish her completely in his room.

In the heat of the moment, Samuel had forgotten to bring along his condoms.

He rarely used them, as a matter of fact, and relied on Kathleen’s regular intake of morning-after pills.

After their night together, he had urged Kathleen to take her pills on time and hastily left for work.

Kathleen was so wrung out after the night’s exertions that she failed to act on it immediately.

she wasn’t ovulating and promptly

condom the subsequent few times they slept together. Hence, she did not see the need in taking

a seed had been planted in her womb, and a new life took

last time,” explained Kathleen coolly. “I’ll ingest them right now if you

retrieve a box

disrupting her. “Fine, I trust you. You haven’t been feeling well

meet won’t let me suffer through this, unlike you! All

Samuel was incensed.

it is true that Kathleen often has to be

you prefer to be as fecund as a sow?” countered

a man were to truly love

man

that your opinions are skewed. I swear I’ll prove it to you by finding a good man for

are a mere figment of your wishful imagination,”

about me anyway? Kathleen is given ample money to spend. Besides, her needs and

can’t believe my poor luck to have met the only

fated then,” replied

“As if! Curse my rotten luck. I

lust-addled to have pined

Samuel huffed in displeasure.

that

seemed that she had inexplicably become

on her research, however, it could be that her mood swings were due to pregnancy

the space between her eyebrows, deflated. “Whatever, I’m

the bed, pull

Samuel grimaced.

promptly snooze off like nobody’s business. She would not

the heavens for her quick wit in switching the birth

wouldn’t have proposed to take them right before Samuel

drifted off and succumbed to

gaze was pinned on

get rid of it. How am I

a good man was defined by his actions in not allowing her to consume birth-control pills, then

a condom from

in bed and turned to

luscious as fresh peach and slept as

everyone seems drawn to her. Especially Christopher. The way he looks at Kathleen does not belong to

and he was compelled to wrap Kathleen in his

shrieked as she struggled to escape from

the commotion,