Chapter 0084

"She once had a child?" I thought to myself and my body stiffened a bit. Surely never expected that update.

When could this have happened? Was it during those three interminable years when she had vanished without a trace? But despite the amount of questions I had, I still tried to act composed and I schooled my expression into one of indifference.

I focused on the almost invisible ripples forming on the surface of my coffee. as I slowly stirred the steaming liquid.

"I don't want to hear it," I said flatly with nonchalance.

To be honest, I was mostly not interested in hearing any stories about her murky past even though at some point before, I used to be interested in it. What purpose would it serve to dredge up all of those stories anyway?

In the background of where we both sat I could hear voices and clinks of cutlery, but it all faded like far away murmurs as Bella's eyes drove like nails. into me. Her fingers curled around her own cup and she slowly took a sip before rolling her eyes.

"I'm going to tell you anyway," she shrugged.

I also shrugged as I sipped my own coffee, turning my attention to the view outside the café window, I tried to lose myself in the bustling cityscape, hoping Bella would take the hint and spare me the sordid details of her tale.

into eloping abroad with him and shortly after that I found

impassive, I was suddenly hanging on her every word with

in a shabby rental we had called home. I even had to survive on terrible... terrible food I tell you. But in spite of the hardships, I still felt happy and proud," she was now looking somewhere far away behind.

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arrangements and taken cor

control my

my own fate without

'our family"? I took a second to

however," Bella

was only when I started running out of

abusive with me. He always

What a story.

it was true. But I mean, she'd chosen him anyway. Maybe I would have been extremely pitful had she been forced

my due date." Her voice trembled, but she pressed on. "He ignored all my pleas and took

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