The Heir's Secret Bride

Chapter 184

Chapter 185

The scene Maeve had imagined didn't happen after all.

In t

the

end, Maeve finished the glass of water that had been sitting half-full on the table, though in a rather different way. After everything was said and done, Byron carried Maeve, who was nearly drenched up to her collar, to the bathroom.

She leaned against him, breathless, feeling even more exhausted and sleepy than if she'd just 5 miles.

Like a fish lying on a chopping board, casually waiting to be desciled or made into soup, she didn't even have the strength to flick her tail and struggle. Afterward, she was cleaned up and and tucked under the covers.

Still

not

fully

sober, and after spending so much time in the hot, cramped bathroom, Maeve's head was spinning. I'm dizzy," Maeve murmured.

"Byron, I'm

turned off the lights and walked over to her, his tone calm and measured. "Are you going to drink again?" I shook hook her head. "No more"

eve frowned and

The tight feeling in her stomach hadn't eased even now.

Byron lay down beside

her, pulling her into his arms as if out of habit. His hand rested gently on her back, patting softly eyes clo closed, sleep beginning to take hold.

Maeve nuzzled into into his chest with her

"What were you so upset about today?" Byron asked suddenly.

On the verge of of sleep, Mae Maeve answered hazily, "When are you going to... divorce me?"

Her voice grew quieter and quieter, f

fading into a weak, barely audible whisper.

But Byron heard it clearly. The softness in his eyes vanished in an instant, replaced by a cold, heavy silence.

'Have I been too kind to her lately and spoiled her too much? How dare she ask for a divorce?' he thought.

This time, it tool

took Maeve two or three days to fully recover from

to the hospital for a checkup, worried that staying up all

with a smile after reviewing her test results. "You're

as her mind went blank. Her lips parted,

was gripped

up with the night she had been drugged and sought out

taken emergency

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you sure this isn't a mistake?"

answered. "It's clearly shown on the report. There's

29%

89%

taking birth control pils, and I've been careful every time since. How could this

it's impossible. And your report shows signs of a potential miscarriage. Thankfully, it's not serious. Just take the prescribed medication and make sure

heart into a spiral. She

said..

absentmindedly, almost bumping into someone. Leaving the the hospital,

and sat down, her face as pale

baby had come so

to be a

on her flat stomach. It didn't even feel like

so unfamiliar, so

her, and she wanted to run, but she didn't know

her phone, she

the instinctively pulled up Valda's number

Sh this before. She'd I know

her mind,

forgotten that her

weren't a safe haven or a source

at at Macve's lips as

I going to do? How could I tell Byron about this? It seems that he doesn't like children..."

her legs went numb. When she finally stood up to leave, her steps were unsteady, as though she were walking on clouds. Passing by the park next to the hospital, Maeve noticed some small children

soft and sweet, their smiles innocent, and they ran around like little Smurfs, full of energy

couldn't help but

her face flushed with embarrassment.

that Byron was sitting on the

Ass

he saw her, Maeve's nerves

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back?" Byron's fingers paused on the keyboard. His gaze was calm, unreadable. "You went to the hospital today?" Maeve's heart lifted inmediately.

a nod toward the small chalkboard sitting on her

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