Scarlett’s POV

My periods were never accurate, but still, I should have known.

Nausea, tiredness, change of taste…You’d think it would be obvious, but you never know until afterward how many signs you missed.

Just like how I have been missing the signs shouting at me that the man I was married to would never love me back no matter how hard I try.

I came to the health screening thinking, what’s the worst that could happen? If it were cancer, I could handle it. But this I couldn’t handle.

A baby.

best thing coming at the worst

I’ve heard about,

might as well just turn out to be cancer.

the busy lobby of the maternity floor alone, I try to absorb the news. My efforts are in vain. My eyes suddenly water with envy of the happy, loving couples sitting around me. I have a luxury house to live in, a billionaire to call

they are

of it for what they have:

the worst time, little one. I touch my flat belly, bitterly.

me that I can’t hide from my life forever. I stare at his name glowing on my screen, finding it hard to find

my ear, in silence. It took him a minute to realize that it

voice is grumpier than usual, “You said

at my phone. 9: 07 am. That’s all the patience my dear husband can spare me.

I close my eyes, finding no strength

purse tight. In it

divorce papers. One an accident from the day, the other…long awaited. I don’t feel too good, but then again, I haven’t been for a while now. I just

out a cold laugh. I bite my tongue,

thing today.” Sebastian mocks with an icy voice. I could see his look of disgust in my mind. I have

my eyes, but somehow

bullshit. You want a bigger allowance? That’s fine. But

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