She Accepted Divorce, He Panicked by Nyx Rai

001 Long Awaited By Him

Scarlett's POV

My periods were never accurate, but still, I should have known.

Nausea, tiredness, change of taste... You'd think it would be obvious, but you never know until afterward how many signs you missed.

Just like how I have been missing the signs shouting at me that the man I was married to would never love me back no matter how hard I try.

I came to the health screening thinking, what's the worst that could happen? If it were cancer, I could handle it. But this I couldn't handle.

A baby.

The best thing coming at the worst time.

I don't know when I'll feel that powerful motherly love that I've heard about, but I'm sure of HIS reaction. He will hate the baby.

It might as well just turn out to be cancer. At least that would make one of us happy.

try to absorb the news. My efforts are in vain. My eyes suddenly water with envy of the happy, loving couples sitting

they are

trade all of it for what they

my flat belly, bitterly. Why come

I stare at his name glowing on

it went through but only a second before his shouts burst out-- "Scar, where the hell are you?!"

phone. 9:07 am. That's all the patience my

no strength to even think

tight. In it lie

the day, the other...long awaited. I don't feel too good, but then again, I haven't been for a while now. I just haven't

lets out a cold laugh. I bite my

asked for the divorce, Scarlett Fuller. YOU said you would deliver that 'damn divorce papers' first thing today." Sebastian mocks with an icy voice. I could see his look of disgust in my mind. I have seen it on his face for five years straight. "What did I tell you?" I close my eyes, but somehow my tears keep

my time with this bullshit. You want a bigger allowance?

That's what he said.

tantrum with a divorce. As if that could threaten him in any way. Ever since we

now. A wish THAT persistent deserves to

hard, I cut my nails deep in my palm to keep

sound of his car starting. "Ava's final