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

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

to be cancer. At least that

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.

are the

would trade all of it for what they have: a man

little one. I touch my flat belly, bitterly. Why come when mama loved the wrong man?

I stare at his name glowing on my

a minute to realize that it went through but only a second before his shouts burst

voice

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

some other time?” I close my eyes, finding no strength to even think about our schedule, “I…I don’t

my purse tight. In it lie two

an accident from the day, the other…long awaited. I don’t feel too good, but then again, I haven’t been for

out a cold laugh. I bite my tongue, swallowing the rest of my

you would deliver that ‘damn divorce papers’ first thing today.” Sebastian mocks with an icy voice. I could see his look of disgust in my mind. I have seen it on his face for five years straight. “What did

close my eyes, but somehow my tears

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