Pregnant for a stranger.

"Ow! Slow down!" Hayle bit her lip as she gripped the clothes she was wearing. Her anxious face mixed with fear, holding back embarrassment on the bed with her legs wide open. This was the first time she posed like this.

"No need to be too tense, you've done this many times before." A man seemed to smile rather cunningly as he looked at Hayle's still furrowed face.

"Yes, but it's not me experiencing it firsthand," she said somewhat curtly. "Can you do it quickly, Jacob?" Hayle raised her head, trying to look towards the man performing his duty, ensuring he was doing it correctly.

"Patience, Miss Hayle. I also have to be careful." The man sounded quite calm.

"But haven't you done this many times before?" Hayle stared at the unadorned white ceiling. The coldness of the room made her shiver to the point where she had to clamp her lips to hide her chattering teeth. Contrary to before, this place used to be somewhere she frequented.

"Yes, I have done it many times. But not for a virgin." Jacob stood and looked at Hayle's still silent face. "Hayle, I ask you again, are you sure you want to do all this?" He peered to fully see the woman's expression, her body may be in this room, but her mind and heart wandered, far away from this place.

Those beautiful brown eyes gazed back at the man who seemed to look at her with sympathetic eyes between his legs. Somehow her tears flowed freely and her chest tightened. Perhaps it was the effect of the painkillers flowing in her blood. She tried to think of it that way. Even though she knew that wasn't what caused it.

She had to do it. There was no other way. This was the only way she could regain the love of Lucas, her former fiancé who had been with her for 11 years. But, three months ago, he decided to end it, then within a week he announced his engagement to the director's daughter where Lucas and Hayle worked. It was all a reality that still felt like a dream to Hayle.

"Yes! I'm sure. After one month of enduring painful injections. I can't just stop. Just do it quickly." Hayle said weakly. As if her throat had just been choked by something.

Jacob focused his gaze again on the woman's sorrowful face. He took a deep breath, if he wasn't close friends with this woman. He wouldn't want to do something that actually violated his code of ethics.

"You can. You still have a choice, Hayle. Being left by him doesn't mean the sky is falling." Jacob returned to sit in his examination chair. Looking towards his two nurses while nodding slowly. A sign that the procedure would be done soon.

Yes! For Hayle, when Lucas walked away from her life. Her whole world crumbled, the sunshine seemed to be taken away by the man, leaving her in an endless storm. Engulfed in grief and drowned in the pain of a broken heart. Her days were no longer passionate. They had no purpose.

She had become too dependent on him. For a woman who was alone in the world, finding true love and having Vang accompany her through difficult times, growing together, navigating the turbulent world with all its ups and downs. He was everything to Hayle. Her first love that she hoped would be her everlasting love. Eleven years together, how could Hayle let him go just like that especially when they were about to get married?

"Once again, you don't have to do this, Hayle. If you want to have a child from that bastard! why not just sleep with him directly?" Jacob tried to hold back his emotions. Who knows, can love make people this foolish. It's already clear that he was openly betrayed, yet this woman still wants to be with someone like him. Love does make people blind, deaf, and foolish. That's why he vowed not to involve himself in such matters. He was comfortable enough with himself.

"Yes, I have to do it." Hayle sobbed harder upon hearing Jacob's words. She didn't really want to do this, but...

"You're surrendering your virginity to this scalpel. Truly wasting the most important thing for you." Jacob reluctantly proceeded. Tearing the woman's hymen in front of him so he could insert another instrument to create a pathway for insemination.

"I regret it. Maybe that's why he left me."

"Regret what?! Regret not letting him sleep with you for 11 years?! Why regret that? It's the greatest thing I know! You made yourself valuable, Hayle, unlike... Ah! I don't want to mention her name. I'm sure he seduced her with such things and Lucas, I'll say it again, he's not worthy of you. You were about to get married soon, but he chose that woman!" Jacob couldn't hold back anymore. As a friend who understands the path of this woman's life, he knows her qualities. Unfortunately, Jacob feels he is Asexual. Someone who has no interest in men or women.

Hayle took a deep breath, then looked back at her friend. "Jacob, just do it."

"Hah! Alright! Hold on, it might sting a bit. I'll widen the entrance with a speculum." Jacob finally started the procedure to perform artificial insemination by inserting a catheter directly into Hayle's womb.

Hayle squeezed her clothes tighter, trying to endure the pain of feeling something invasive entering her body. It didn't actually hurt much because half of her body had been given painkillers. It just felt strange to her as she had never had anything enter her body before.

"Done!" Jacob's voice sounded loud as he stood up and removed his gloves. "You know what to do, right? Just wait four weeks to see if this works or not."

"It has to work!" Hayle's eyes stared at Jacob, who took a deep breath and exhaled shortly. He has long known how ambitious this woman is.

"You know the success rate of artificial insemination is only 37.9 percent. It doesn't even come close to 50 percent, so what if it doesn't work?" Jacob looked at the woman who had ruined her life just for a man who wasn't worthy at all. It's pathetic.

"We'll try again. We'll try with IVF." Hayle looked away. She didn't want to see the scornful look from her colleague.

"You're crazy, Hayle! Totally crazy! What makes you so sure that if you get pregnant with Lucas's child, he will cancel his marriage to Sonia and marry you? That man has been using you all this time, when he has a mountain of gold elsewhere, he'll jump from you."

"Because I know Lucas loves children very much. He won't refuse and will come back to me." Hayle stood firm in her stance. Hoping desperately that it would align with her thoughts.

She would do anything to get her man back. Even if it meant tearing her virginity on the operating table. She believed Lucas would come back to her! That man! Hayle was even out of words.

"Well, seeing your determination so strong. I sincerely hope your efforts succeed even though I still don't like that man. By the way, everything is done. You'll be taken to the recovery room soon. I'll get ready first." Jacob smiled sweetly at his friend. Patting Hayle's shoulder, which was just covered by the nurse who had assisted in the insemination procedure.

Hayle just nodded quietly, smiling sweetly. "Thank you."

"You're welcome." Jacob walked away from his special room in his insemination clinic. He stopped for a moment at the sink outside the room to wash his hands, a mandatory procedure before and after performing a procedure. And suddenly he was attracted by the behavior of one of his nurses who quickly approached him.

"Doctor?! Has Miss Hayle's procedure been completed?" the nurse asked, her face pale and her breath ragged.

"Yes, of course! It's just finished." Jacob furrowed his brow, looking at the nurse who appeared visibly troubled. As if she was cursing herself. "What's the matter?" Jacob asked, curious why his nurse was behaving like this?

The nurse seemed quite afraid to say it. But, reluctantly, she had to say it. She approached Jacob, who seemed to understand the movements of his nurse who approached to whisper.

"Doctor, it seems that the sperm samples got mixed up."

"WHAT!!!" Jacob's voice filled the entire corridor of the clinic, and his face immediately contorted. How could this happen, and unlucky for him, why did it have to be in his hands and also involving his friend?

Damn it! What should he do now?