His Promise: The Mafia’s Babies

Chapter 3

“Are you sick again?” Faith nagged me. She came over to watch a movie, but there was only one issue. I I ran to the bathroom for what would’ve been the fourth time today and reached the sink just in time beagain.

I felt like this for about three months now, and my body was close to giving up on me. It was probably beoverworked myself, but I had no choice.

“Don’t worry. It’s nothing!” I yelled back and gargled some mouthwash while I attempted to remove thefrom my mouth. No matter what happened, even if I was on the verge of dying, I had to do whatever I coleast pay my rent this month, so calling in sick was not an option.

While everyone had a family to turn to, I didn’t and was all on my own like I had always been. Of course,harm in asking Faith or Luna for money because I knew they would gladly offer it, but I felt too embarrasalready at the age where I should’ve been able to take care of myself, but I couldn’t.

“I told you not to eat that bread with Cheetos. You always eat the most disgusting things.” Faith complaiher way over to the bathroom. I quickly put away the mouthwash and put on my best act. “It’s not disgua Colombian cooking channel, it’s safe!”

Faith scrunched up her nose and shook her head in disapproval. “Baby, I know you’re desperate to learn want to know more about your culture and all, but maybe we should leave the recipes for when you actuthey’re saying.”

“Alright, I’ll ask Luna next time.” I pouted to get her off my back and went back to my bedroom, so we cthe movie. A few hours later the movie ended and Faith finally left. I didn’t know how fast to run to the tknow one thing and that was that it was time to throw up again.

I was known to be google’s best friend and looked up my symptoms, but it didn’t do me any good. It enof diseases, so I decided to stop.

The day after I felt even worse but went to work either way, because I was too determined to not miss a probably took in every type of medicine I could, but it didn’t really do much and only made it worse.

Just the same as every single night, I took a look in the mirror and turned around to look at my body. Thusually hugged my curves, but not today. It looked different and so did my body.

and looked over at her while she was applying her lipstick. She stopped whdoing and turned her head to my direction to take

doing while mydoing turns. I knew my body and knew there was no

not pregnant stop overreacting.” Luna laughed at me and wadressing room. My legs felt weak

could not be

could not be

other explanation for these symptoms. There was no other explanation for my sudden wother than me being

Serena, stop overreacting, you are not

in the mirror. I tried to convince myself that there was no wbeen pregnant, but it was

the signs I had shown were leading towards me being pregnant. I felt a tear

be the father, and that peman who wouldn’t even give me the time of his day,

he do if I told him I might’ve been pregnant? He probably force me to get an abortion. Yes, percent. What else would he say

footsteps and wiped away my last tears before I forced a smile on

to look at Faith who had a confused expression on her face. Unfortunately, she could seeme like she

and grabbed

into some useless conversaconversation came to an end when I bumped into

almost beating out of my chest as I was secretly anticipating what his next move was goingtook a step aside and ignored my existence while he kept on walking. He completely ignored

once.” Faith admired him and looked back one more time while I pullarm. All I wanted was for this night to end as soon as possible and it already started as badly as it could. expected to happen was to bump into Christian, the exact person I had been trying to

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