his brow. "Tell me, what do you want?" Did she want him to be the father of her i

bargain really a

t about it, the mor

h her hands covering her belly, fear

marriage was simply a short-term arrangem

tone beca

? Re

eas, I'll die miserable. If I caused you dif

ment. He looked at her cov

dn't you

lly, clammy palms on her shirt a

ust lea

isclose her h

William to beli

ession was blac

for three mont

nt and be at her disposal

and having another opponent would hurt

t her as though ga

ned to the door an

kfast'

see you d

akened when Wi

nto a low cabinet. She squatted to pick up the clothi

e and told herself

ded her. She folded a

ing area was vacant and only a coffee cup

't be forced to see William.

her mother she'd visit soon

met her a

Mo

heavy, and she

Don't worry."

ggedEli

d after convincing William she meant him no

usted." She wasn't wea

ef once she sat down. "I

beef. She loved the

, her stomach churned. She

her mouth and ran to the b

orried and f

essed her daughter's

it since herl daughter h

t's w

clutched her sin

ked to h

preg

equilibrium and st

procedure was costly, and so

from the offender's insurance befo

e revealed he

broke, and she didn

self..." Elizebet

e must go to the hospital be

ioned, pulling aw

your life!" Her life wou

Ada p

ve b

da's pleas and was d

ought Ada to

ened suicide when

needed man

the hall with her tummy cover

rollably. She felt

st got a fever, don'

ght skirt over

to see Jean and William

ly, was pregnant, and didn't know the father. Ada obser

's a painless abortion, why's it so fucking painful?" William frowned as he looked at Ada. She'd sh

t she couldn't place her

egnant so young, he thought

affection, yet she had a

he nurse questi

considered

e pla

me a

the surgery room wit

luded. Jean felt worried when she sa

m was stone-faced. "Go." Jean tightened his armhold. S

ver had another lady at his sid

t woman? Wha

m, that

t's unimportan

intrigued, she

in the surgical room. She couldn't abando

that she rushed into

was her, but she covere

as ast

brother's autism. During

o have a exc

You sick?" quest

an over with

when the nurse tol

lled when she

about to

ed to Ada an

n helped pay for her son's treatm