Nine months too late: After divorce by Baby Charlene

Chapter 98

"I said get out of here!" Lana yelled at her sister who attempted, for the third time, to take the bottle from her. "What is wrong with you? Are you forgetting I am older than you? Show me some respect and get out of here!" "You're killing yourself!" Mia half-yelled in frustration. "You've been drinking for hours now. That much alcohol in your system while you're pregnant is disastrous!" "Oh, shut up? Who cares about the stupid baby, anyway?" Lana huffed, drinking from the bottle again.

Mia shook her head, her anger surpassing the pity she was supposed to feel for her.

"It's quite sad, you know?" She grabbed her phone from

the table. "Few months ago, you used to be so beautiful - so full of life. I always looked up to you 'cause I was sure you'd be great. But now," she shook her head. "I can't even recognize you." Lana's grip on the bottle grew tighter as she drank from it it again. She She didn't look at Mia until she heard the door slam shut.

She eventually passed out on the bed and woke

"Tana!" Tana

She tried calling out, but her voice woke up hours later with a heaviness in her head. It was expected, considering how much she's drank. But aside the pounding in her head, she felt a growling hunger.

The maid couldn't possibly hear her from

came out strained. downstairs.

Her eyes heavy, she moved her hands around the bed, searching for her phone. She groaned in frustration when she couldn't find it.

"Tana..." She called again, but with that voice, only a person outside her door could hear her.

She forced herself from the bed, dragging her legs to the door. Her vision was blurry, her head ached seriously. But she couldn't think clearly to come up with another way to reach the maid. She made her way out of the room, her steps slow and staggering.

'You should go back inside, a voice whispered in her head.

But

I she needed food. She needed to find Tana.

Her

eyes

were halfly closed as she struggled to walk. By the time she reached the staircase, she was unaware and took the first step that swept her off her feet

...

she fell completely, and all

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room when Kage entered. It wasn't closing hours yet, but she had texted him earlier, asking if he could get home on time. Her nerves climbed

way

into the house.

hand around her waist, pecking her forehead. His eyes were filled with so much concern. "Is everything okay? Did you need something?" Sylvie's heart throbbed with pain, the idea of what she was

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loved this man and wanted to spend forever with him. Was it

tried to smile but couldn't. The heaviness in her heart couldn't even

smile.

stroke her hair gently. "Did Meredith call? Is

shaking her head.

couch, sitting next to her

deserve to be loved this way by him, not when she'd brought him so

T

you ever imagined what he'd do to you if he ever gets to know? How much he'd ruin your life, just as much as it ruine his back then?' Lancelot's words made her heart race.

can't

how can you tell him? When he'll never forgive you? When he'll ruin

"Sylvie!"

shaking her. Only then

eyes were teary as

you!?" His face

does she tell him

for the

'It's f

the best,

mentally prepared herself

his phone rang, interrupting the

on the couch between them, and Sylvie was

should take that." There was a slight tremor in

will when we're done.