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.

efforts are in vain. My eyes suddenly water with envy of the happy, loving

are the

it for what they

really came at the worst time, little one. I touch my flat belly, bitterly. Why come when mama loved the wrong

from my life forever. I stare at his

went through but only a second before his shouts burst out-- "Scar, where the hell are you?!" Sebastian's voice is grumpier than usual, "You said

That's all the

some other time?" I close my eyes, finding no strength to even think about our schedule, "I...I don't feel too

my purse tight. In

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 figured out what does the baby mean in

laugh. I bite my tongue, swallowing the rest

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,

my time with this bullshit. You want a bigger

That's what he said.

divorce. As if that could threaten him in any way. Ever

THAT

I cut my nails deep in my palm to keep my

I could hear the sound of his car starting. "Ava's