Chapter 236

Chapter 236:

Seeing Rachel lying in bed, her face drained of color, Brian’s chest tightened with worry.

“Why do you look so pale? What happened?” As soon as the words left his mouth, his gaze landed on the bedsheet behind her.

The fabric was pristine white—one he didn’t recognize from the hospital.

“You’re in a hospital,” he said, his voice sharpening, more a statement than a question.

Rachel masked the flicker of panic in her eyes and forced a calm response. “Yeah, my period cramps were really bad, so I came in for a check-up.”

“What caused it? Did they run any tests?”

“It’s okay. I got an injection, and I’m already feeling better.”

After a few more exchanges, she quickly found an excuse to end the call.

phone, an odd sense of emptiness

that Rachel still hadn’t asked about

she would have been

she seemed completely

or sent him a

whenever she wasn’t feeling well, she would cling to him, pleading for his

a child, always trying to remind him that she belonged in his

longer turned to him for

dull ache forming behind his eyes.

you love

thoughts. Ronald stepped

I need to

course, sir.

lately?” Brian’s voice was

place to comment—Rachel was Brian’s fiancée.

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