Chapter 215

-Grayson’s POV-

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“Are you going to say something?”

“Grayson?”

“Can you hear me?”

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The voice felt distant, muffled, like they were reaching me from the other side of a thick glass wall. I was aware of the world still moving around me, of people breathing, speaking, living–but I had gone completely still.

I wasn’t even sure if I had been breathing.

Pregnant. She was pregnant.

With my child.

The weight of the realization slammed into me like a train, knocking the air straight out of my lungs. A whole new human being existed–because of me. Because of us.

I had kicked her out when she was carrying my child.

The thought made my stomach churn, a tight, twisting sensation spreading through my chest.

How long had she known?

“Grayson?”

My gaze snapped up, and my vision finally registered Elaine’s face. She was watching me carefully, a hesitant expression settling over her features.

She let out an apologetic sigh, “I didn’t know you didn’t know. I just thought… I mean, since it’s been three months now- that’s right before things went wrong between you two–I just figured…” She hesitated, “That you knew.”

But I didn’t know.

I wouldn’t have even thought-

“I don’t want to have children.”

The words rang in my head, sharp and clear, a memory from months ago. I had meant it. Or at least, I had thought I had

meant it.

fingers like sand, impossible to hold

Did I?

I want

child?

as a dozen thoughts collided,

life bound to mine forever. A helpless little being that would depend on me, look up to

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need me.

I be that person and not screw it up like my

even deserve to be?

storm in my head, “Have you thought about what you’re going to

blinked, realizing I had been staring blankly at the

her?

What was I going

I

I don’t know.”

what to think, what to feel, what the hell

for a long moment before she spoke again, softer this

my hair. “Because I told her

still feel

opened my mouth, but nothing came out.

Did I?

child into this world, never wanted

how things were with your father,” Elaine finished

hard. “I don’t know how

have to,” She said simply. “Not

run. No undoing it. This

already existed. And so did the reality of what I

I didn’t even know if she’d want

a sharp, unfamiliar ache

felt like

child, too? Did I care

were the words my thoughts revolved around

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slowly, and I remained frozen in my seat for a moment longer than necessary. I still couldn’t get my head around it. I couldn’t think straight. Every time I tried, it was like my thoughts were caught in a tangle, spiraling in every

terminal, a team of well–dressed attendants immediately approached. Their eyes were sharp, practiced in their professionalism, and they greeted me with

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