Wife by Day, Boss by Night by Thalia Quillspeak

Chapter 97

Natalie was in so much pain that she couldn’t even speak. Cold sweat drenched her hair, gluing it to her forehead. She just clutched her lower abdomen and moaned in agony.

Rosie immediately threw back the covers to see what was wrong, and as she did, a pungent metallic smell of blood filled the air. Natalie’s pajama bottoms were wet through with blood on one side!

“Oh my God…” Rosie screamed, her voice laced with terror. She spun around to grab her phone. Natalie needed an ambulance, and fast!

But as she turned, Natalie grabbed the hem of her clothes, saying, “Don’t call anyone…”

“What else can we do?” Rosie was nearly incoherent with fright.

Natalie had some medical knowledge and understood what was happening.

“Just… get some hemostatic drugs… It’ll be okay…” she gasped out between breaths.

“I’ll go get the meds. Don’t move! I’ll be right back!” With tears and snot mingling on her face. Rosie grabbed her purse and bolted out the door.

pain was blurring Natalie’s consciousness, her body cold and clammy with sweat. She couldn’t even tell if she was bleeding or just sweating profusely.

difficult childbirth. The muscles in her lower body had become rigid, spasming with excruciating pain whenever her period came. But it had never been as bad as

tried to get out of bed to reach them, but as she pushed herself

“Hey, little dummy!”

dreaming. As she fell, she didn’t even feel the pain, but she heard someone near her and was calling

had been years since anyone had called her that.

had struggled with selective mutism for a while when she was

she developed the condition, but it was likely due to her

not to speak of their dirty laundry because Natalie couldn’t

she embarked on her elementary school years that she gradually

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it. So, when she first arrived at the Howard family, she was practically silent, which led the family to nickname her

would call her that to her face, always with