No Strings Attached

Chapter 2

She bit her lip hard, her fingers clenched around her cellphone with all the strength she could muster, and she cursed, “lan, you jerk!”

Clara was sweating bullets from the pain. She tried to dial for emergency help, but her fingers were too weak. Finally, her vision went black, and she passed out.

When she came to, she was lying in a hospital bed. Sitting beside her was her best friend, Sasha.

As soon as Sasha saw her open her eyes, she stood up, her gaze full of concern. “Clara, how are you feeling? Are you still in pain?”

Clara looked at her blankly. “What happened to me?”

Sasha hesitated for a moment before saying, “You were pregnant, but the doctor said your uterine wall was thin to begin with. Plus, with lan’s rough… behavior, you had a miscarriage and severe bleeding.”

Clara’s eyes widened in disbelief. Her mind was reeling with the thought. ‘I was pregnant, but the baby’s gone.‘

her and lan’s

didn’t know where things with lan were headed, it would have been

whispering words of comfort. “You’ve just had surgery, and you can’t cry,

and he even cheats on you right in front of your eyes? Doesn’t he think karma’s

a cold hand, her voice choked and barely able to speak. She was thinking of the child that was lost before its time, thinking of the man she had loved for seven years. She just couldn’t calm

long while, Clara finally spoke. “So you saw him.”

floor with Heidi. When you were in surgery, I called him from your phone to come and sign some papers,

“Take me to see

just had surgery. You can’t upset

I need to see with my own eyes

the fourth floor. Clara stood outside the door, watching lan softly. coaxing Heidi to take her medicine. That tender gaze and soothing voice stabbed Clara in the heart.

Clara saw Heidi’s face, which bore a resemblance to her own, it was as if everything suddenly made. sense. Clara smiled, but it was tinged with sadness. She turned to Sasha and said, “Take me back.”