Chapter 4 She Had No Right To Give Up
“Really?”
Eric’s smile was cold, dripping with scorn.
“So, this is about money, isn’t it? Not even a month has passed. What’s the hurry? Rest assured, you’ll receive your due. Just be patient. Surely, you don’t think we’d let you go hungry?”
He paused briefly, his tone becoming terse. “Avoid calling me unless it’s urgent. I’ll get in touch if there’s any need.”
With those final words, the conversation abruptly ceased.
Clasping the phone tightly, Hadley’s shock was evident.
To such an extent, Eric despised her.
“Absurd.”
With a frail chuckle, Hadley’s face turned ashen. Requesting money from him had left her feeling profoundly demeaned.
In silence, she lifted her hand to her unchanged stomach, closed her eyes, and allowed tears to escape quietly.
Eight months had passed.
Hadley was sleeping peacefully in her modest room, her pregnant belly prominently displayed.
The arrival of her child was approaching. Despite the doctor’s recommendation for an early hospitalization due to the baby’s backside position, Hadley merely smiled and
remained silent.
Her pockets were empty.
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Eight months earlier, following that call with Eric, he had spewed nothing but cruelty.
Yet, the financial support he promised never materialized.
Hadley had drained her savings. With no way to afford her apartment anymore, she ended up in a run–down neighborhood.
She never reached out to him for financial help again.
The thought of being labeled a parasite was unbearable.
After moving, Hadley managed to secure some part–time work, balancing it with her
studies.
Her earnings were limited, but through careful budgeting, she made enough to sustain herself.
As she drifted in sleep, the night erupted with cries of alarm.
“Fire!”
The shout pierced the air.
“Escape!”
Roused abruptly, Hadley leaped from her bed and threw open her door to a scene of utter chaos. Smoke engulfed the corridor as flames danced violently.
Her complexion drained of color in an instant.
“Hadley!”
Her neighbor, a fellow student, was frantic with worry as he caught sight of her.
“Why haven’t you fled? It’s a fire! Get out now!”
“Right, got it!”
In a rush, Hadley spun around to snatch her backpack.
She moved to venture deeper into her apartment, but her neighbor’s firm grip stopped her. “Are you out of your mind? Why are you heading back in? Leave immediately!”
“I must!”
Hadley’s frustration was clear as she stamped her foot.
Inside, her savings lay–every single penny she had painstakingly gathered for her baby’s
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needs: hospital bills, diapers, and
need to
at that moment, a flaming beam from the ceiling crashed down
“Ah!”
stepped back, narrowly
forward was now obstructed
“Hadley! Escape now!”
“No!”
leaving Breaking away, she made a reckless dash into
“Ah!”
fierce blast of wind propelled the fire closer to her. Turning swiftly, Hadley felt the flames lick
“Hadley!”
out and yanked her to safety. “Are
a shake of her head, even as coughs wracked
“Let’s go, now!”
her arm, her neighbor pleaded, “You can’t return
“But…”
kill you both! If you go
forcibly by her neighbor, Hadley managed to flee
her savings.
was she to do
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“Ah!”
causing Hadley to
matter? Are you
formed
“She’s having her baby!”
call for an ambulance! We need to get her to a hospital
“Ah!”
“Stay strong!”
positioned on a delivery table. She withstood a harrowing and dangerous labor
delivered her
placed the newborn in her arms, and tears
Here was her child…
Her own family…
alone in
outrage of the moment, she
consciousness.
held her infant close, her gaze
nearby, observing Hadley. She had come to discuss the outstanding hospital bills. Hadley had managed to
her head, at a
with nothing left to
nurse, moved by compassion and noting Hadley’s youth, assumed she had
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an uncaring
them the nurse gently suggested, and then moved away, careful not to
eyes began to brim
Friends? She had
not ignore her obligations, as if she
through her bag, she retrieved
She called Eric.
phone echoed
last, the call
“Eric…”
“Hello?”
that
He’s unavailable at the moment. But feel free to talk to me,” Linda continued, her voice carrying a hint of
truly offer
Linda harbor resentment
this point, however, Hadley had no
non–existent
swallowed pride, Hadley hesitated, and then said, “I was wondering if he might… possibly help with some financial
carefully, not as
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