Chasing My Pregnant Wife

"At the very least," Aurora said through gritted teeth, "I won't kill myself. I'm not depraved, I just care too much about you. How can trying to save someone else be an act of depravity?"

"You're right," Theodore said sarcastically. "I was wrong. You're not depraved. You're being cheap."

Aurora looked as though she was struck by lightning. "What...what did you say?"

She didn't expect Theodore to say something so harsh.

"Was I wrong to say that?" Every word of his was sharp and incisive, piercing through Aurora's heart. "Crying over a man who doesn't love you, even asking him to yell at you and hit you. You're even harboring hopes of saving me? Are you even fit to do so? Do you think of yourself as a savior? Just look at yourself, getting moved to tears by yourself."

He deliberately insulted her in an attempt to wake her up from her dream and tell her clearly that he would never fall for her.

She was merely wasting her time on him, and she would only end up in pain. He would never give her a sliver of hope or even a happy ending.

Theodore never intended to toy with her feelings.

Aurora couldn't stop the tears from falling. "You're right, I am cheap! I..."

started getting breathless. She clutched her chest and took in

of the bed, and

later, Aurora opened her eyes slowly and saw Theodore in

him, and he was

Spencer,

looked exhausted.

sat up on the bed and leaned against the

sorry. I shouldn't have said what

become

original intention was to stop this woman from falling for him, but what he did put her life in danger. He was now put in

isn't that the same for

think so much when one was in love? It didn't matter whether one was cheap or

taken by another, pain and happiness would coexist One would find it hard to extricate himself from it. He would, in fact, lose control

be no other way. Anyone could be 'cheap'

blessing and also a curse that might make one cheapen oneself, especially

pain, happiness,