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.
like sand, impossible to hold onto. She hadn’t told me because she
Did I?
I want
child?
as a dozen thoughts collided, spiraling
helpless little being that would depend
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need me.
that person and not screw it up like my father had
I even deserve to
the storm in my head, “Have you thought about
been staring blankly at the
her? To Ava?
tightened. What was I going to
could I
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
before she spoke again, softer
running a hand through my hair. “Because I told her I didn’t
you still
but nothing came out.
Did I?
a child into
things were with your father,”
for a moment, neither of us spoke. I swallowed hard. “I don’t know how to be
have to,” She said
trial run. No undoing it. This wasn’t just some decision I could make and
And so did the reality of
she needed me most and now, I didn’t even know if she’d want
alone sent a sharp, unfamiliar
felt like I lost
to lose my child, too? Did
my thoughts revolved around as the plane touched down
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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
stepped off the plane and into the terminal, a team of well–dressed attendants immediately approached. Their eyes were sharp, practiced in their professionalism, and they greeted me with the respect I
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