His Eagle Eyes on Me

"Are you married? If you don't want the child, we will need the signature of the father to proceed with an abortion," the doctor said.

Shelly could not possibly get Hayden to sign the paperwork for her because she had no means of reaching him.

"Can't I just sign it myself?" Shelly asked. "I'm not married, nor do I have a boyfriend."

"You must be really careless, then! You can get a family member to sign it for you. You won't be able to proceed with the procedures today, so you will need to make an appointment," the doctor continued. "Why don't you go home and consider your options?"

"Do I have to get my family to sign it? They aren't in the same city." Shelly was reluctant to inform her family about this as her parents would be devastated.

The doctor shot her a look. "Get the father of the child to sign it, then. Without anyone to sign the consent paper, who's going to take responsibility if something goes wrong during the surgery?"

merely advising her in accordance with the hospital's rules, so she did not argue further. "I will

have options. If you wait until your embryo is past the three-month mark, an abortion would not

out of the hospital with her medical record and felt like the world was spinning before her eyes. Sᴇaʀ*ᴄh

Since she did not have a boyfriend,

walked toward the bus station outside the hospital, she noticed that the bench was empty and sat down with tears rolling

would hesitate before

she could not find a partner later in life, and her child would only need her, but

to pay the debt her family owed. She would not able to work as hard with the pregnancy, and until she gave birth, her

the need to make ends meet

give birth to it, or my child is going to suffer alongside me!'