When Love Breaks by Jack

Chapter 70

Chapter 70

His

s drilled into mine, a deep concern veiling them, “Can’t it be for any other reason?”

“Like what?” I couldn’t deny I was fishing for something more.

His lips barely moved as he spoke, “I just want you to be well.”

“…Sounds like something you’d say at a family Thanksgiving dinner.”

A thought flickered through my mind, and before I knew it, a smile crept up, “Save it for Timothy’s birthday bash next month.”

Wishing me health. Wishing himself a lifetime of happiness with Margaret?

When the nurse came to draw my blood, I instinctively pulled back as she disinfected my arm, my body tensing up.

I was scared. I’d always been scared.

As a kid, it was always Dad who held me, with Mom gripping my other hand, coaxing me through every needle and every blood draw.

And there were always rewards.

health had been decent. A common cold here, some over-the-counter meds there – hardly

or not, was grown up

“Don’t be afraid.”

his thumb gently caressing the back of my hand as he soothingly whispering, “I’m here

“You being

it hurt any

hand if it hurts. I’ll bear the

my side, filling my heart and yet, stirring a pang of sadness. I murmured, “But you can’t

he didn’t catch it. “What

I shook

are better

I was off to the ultrasound room the head doctor

Chapter 70

Bryant waited outside.

doctor applied the gel, then handed me tissue to wipe it off after he was done, my

would find out about the pregnancy

soon.

I was as the examining

“I… know.”

together, “How’s the

nine weeks now. Look, you can already see tiny

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