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.

my fingers like sand, impossible to hold onto. She hadn’t told me because she didn’t think I

Did I?

want

child?

pulse pounded as a dozen

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

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need me.

it up like my father had done to

I even deserve to

the storm in my head, “Have you thought about

blinked, realizing I had been staring blankly

her?

What was I

could I say?

I don’t know.”

was the only honest answer I had. I didn’t know what to think, what to feel, what the hell I was even supposed to do with this

moment before she spoke again, softer this time,

hand through my hair. “Because

you still feel that way?”

my mouth, but nothing

Did I?

child into this world, never wanted to

were with your father,” Elaine finished

and for a moment, neither of us spoke. I swallowed hard.

She said simply. “Not

no preparing for this. No trial run. No undoing it. This wasn’t just some decision I could make and walk away from.

the reality of what I had

and now, I didn’t even know if she’d want me to

a sharp, unfamiliar

like I

child, too? Did I care if I did?

words my thoughts revolved around as the

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couldn’t think straight. Every time I tried, it was like my thoughts were caught in a tangle, spiraling in every

into the terminal, a team of well–dressed attendants immediately approached. Their eyes were sharp, practiced in their

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