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

feel that powerful motherly love that I’ve heard about, but I’m sure of HIS reaction. He will hate the

just turn out to be cancer. At

in 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 my husband, and his

are the

would trade all of it for what they have:

really came at the worst time, little one. I touch my flat belly, bitterly. Why come when

me that I can’t hide from my life forever. I stare at his name

took him a minute to realize that it

voice is grumpier than usual, “You

my phone. 9: 07 am. That’s all the patience my dear husband

some other time?” I close my eyes, finding no strength to even think about

tight. In it lie two

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

a cold laugh. I bite

voice. I could see his look of disgust in my mind. I have seen it on his face for five years straight. “What did

my eyes, but somehow my

this bullshit. You want a bigger allowance?

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