When Her "Death" Couldn't Break Him (Cecilia and Nathaniel)

Chapter 19 She Is Pregnant.

Outside the window, the wind howled violently. Cecilia placed her pale, slender hand on her lower abdomen, her gaze vacant.

Calvin had told her that the doctor had discovered she was pregnant.

This child couldn’t have come at a worse time.

Martha looked at Cecilia, whose eyes were hollow, devoid of any will to live. She hardened her heart.

“Ceci.”

Cecilia took a long time to come back to her senses and slowly turned to look at Martha. “Martha.”

Martha’s eyes were red. Her old, wrinkled hand gently brushed a few stray hairs away from Cecilia’s temple. “Ceci, I don’t have any children of my own. I’ve always treated you like my own daughter. I don’t wish for you to be rich or powerful, only for you to live healthily. If my only daughter wants to die, how could a mother possibly go on living?”

Cecilia’s eyes narrowed as she watched Martha pick up a fruit knife.

“I’ve cared for you until you were ten years old. After that, I couldn’t be with you, and that was my fault. Now, I’ll go apologize to Mr. Smith…”

With that, Martha started to slice her wrist with the knife.

Cecilia was startled. She used all her strength to stop her, but in her current state, she couldn’t even get up. She was at a loss for words. “Martha, don’t…”

Martha didn’t stop.

down her face. “I won’t do

promise, Martha

eyes were filled

From now on, you must

Cecilia decided to heed Martha’s words, to

was no longer her mother, and she no

family was Martha and the child in her

in such a drastic way,

birth, yet she still had to bear the so–called “debt” of

could a true mother ask her

hospital stay, Cecilia heard from Calvin that Paula

She didn’t feel sad.

with Nathaniel, she had long wanted to settle the debt she owed Paula. From now on, they were

Cecilia didn’t want

all, this child was an

knew how much Nathaniel disliked

certainly wouldn’t

days in the hospital, Cecilia completed

asked Martha to go home first. Once she had settled things with

there by his father, George

“Cecilia! Wasn’t she missing?”

was supposed to

Cecilia had vanished without a trace. She didn’t show up for three