Chapter 16

I nodded truthfully., “He wants a divorce. If I tell him of the baby, he might think that I am using it to keep us married.”

Jared raised a brow in question. “But he already knows of it. What will you do?”

I was taken aback by his question.

Trying to sound him out, I asked, “Will Ashton want a child?”

“I’m not Ashton,” replied Jared. He placed his phone in his pocket as he glanced at me. “But Ashton is thirty. There’s no reason for him to refuse one.”

With that, he placed his hands in his pockets and left.

that mean that Ashton will want me to

optimism was premature. When Rebecca barged into my room, I was still hooked onto the IV drip. She rushed in rashly as she gripped my

eyes were red-rimmed. “Why? Why did you get pregnant? Scarlett, you killed my baby. I won’t let

was holding me in a chokehold, I couldn’t breathe. All I could do was try

a baby. You won’t use

frail, but right now, my resistance was futile in the

out a few words,

sneered and tightened her grip. “I get to kill both mother and child.

a

Rebecca stiffened at once. The menace in her gaze faded away. As tears streamed down her eyes, she collapsed onto the ground at Ashton’s

I regained my freedom

calm down. Rebecca was sobbing pitifully in Ashton’s arms by now. “Ash, you promised me that you wouldn’t allow other women to give birth to

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