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.

watched the blood on Martha’s wrist, her tears rolled uncontrollably down her face. “I won’t do

Cecilia’s promise, Martha

were filled with

repaid your debt for bringing you into this world. We no longer owe her or Nathaniel! From now on, you must live for the people who love you, for me,

Martha’s words, to

moment forward, Paula was no longer her mother, and she no longer had a

family was Martha and the child

into making a decision in such a drastic way, but

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

could a true mother ask her daughter to repay her with

stay, Cecilia heard from Calvin

She didn’t feel sad.

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

child, Cecilia didn’t want

this child was an

much Nathaniel disliked

out, he certainly wouldn’t want to keep the

in the hospital, Cecilia completed the discharge

had settled things with Nathaniel,

so happened that Zachary was brought there by his father, George Sinclair to oversee some hospital matters, but he

“Cecilia! Wasn’t she missing?”

days ago, on the fifteenth, was supposed to be

the fifteenth, Cecilia had vanished without a trace. She didn’t show up for