The Reclaimed Rose (Annalise and Steven)

Chapter 19

Chapter 19

She thought her cocky provocation would trigger me, but I ignored them and strode to the living room.

Steven "kindly" explained to her on my behalf, "She's just pissed at the moment. But don't worry. I'm sure she'll get over it by the time we come home." Zachary chimed in, "Yeah. She might be annoying, but she cooks great food! We're gonna have a feast tonight!"

Jessica was excited. "Really? Oh, I'm looking forward to it already!"

They seemed to believe I still loved Steven and that I would drag my still-recovering body to make them a feast just to get his

forgiveness, almost as if they failed to notice I had been looking at him like he was a random nutjob.

After they left, I entered the storage room, found my suitcase, and brought it into my room. One after another, my belongings went into the suitcase.

pack up my stuff in advance so I could

items in the house that belonged to me. Other than a few shirts in the laundry, phone chargers, and some documents,

saw a cell phone placed above them. Under

turned out to be a pregnancy report, confirming Jessica was nine weeks pregnant. So, who was

power button on the phone and saw the screen lit up. It displayed the

conceived it before you

was the case, shouldn't she be doing everything

contacted

an interesting epiphany. Did that mean Jessica had been getting entangled with Steven and

he found too precious to touch was bearing another man's child, he would be

time to tell Steven about it. Oh, I looked forward to the day they had

phone, I captured a photo of their conversation