"Help you relax?" i scoffed, i didn't want to relax.
I wanted to feel it all.
The pain.
The betrayal.
The truth.
I woke slowly, my body was weak, exhaustion clinged to every part of me. Then the words "You're pregnant " echoed in my thoughts.
I turned my face to the side, letting the tears slip quietly into the pillow.
This was too much.
Too fast.
I should be planning a wedding… inviting my family to Chicago… smiling, laughing, building something real.
Not this.
My mother's disappointed face flashed in my mind.
Victor's cold mockery.
And this child…
"I wanted you…" I whispered faintly, my fingers pressing slightly against my stomach. "But not like this…"
I wiped my tears off softly. I didn't have to cry, not now, because beneath everything I now knew… there was still more, and I was going to make Aaron tell me.
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