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

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

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

went blank. Her lips parted, but no words came out for

was gripped by

the timing lined up with the night she had been drugged

she had taken emergency contraception afterward.

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sure this isn't a mistake?"

shown on the report. There's

29%

89%

taking birth control pils, and I've

effective. It's rare, but that doesn't mean it's impossible. And your report shows signs of a

words sent Maeve's heart into a spiral. She wasn't sure what

said..

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

her face as pale as paper as the doctor's words replayed

baby had

to be a

placed her hand on her flat stomach.

so unfamiliar,

wanted to run, but she didn't

her

been through the instinctively pulled up Valda's number

before. Sh this before. She'd I know what to

as soon as the thought crossed her mind, she stopped

forgotten that her family wasn't

weren't a safe haven or a source

smile tugged at at Macve's lips as she clutched her phone,

I going to do? How could I tell Byron about this? It

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

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

help but

she realized what she was doing, her face flushed with embarrassment. She

Byron was sitting on the couch,

Ass

as he saw her, Maeve's

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the keyboard. His gaze was calm, unreadable. "You went to the hospital today?" Maeve's heart lifted inmediately. "How did you

the small

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