Wife by Day, Boss by Night by Thalia Quillspeak

Chapter 152

As Natalie weathered the barrage of insults, Brian had never uttered a word in her defense. She feared that he too had always harbored the belief that she was cunning and had taken. the rumors of her drugging him as gospel truth.

There could be no second accident.

The car fell into a deathly silence the moment she mentioned “contraceptive.”

Brian’s hand, resting protectively on her lower back, tightened ever so slightly.

“After all this time, I wish I’d never carried your child,” Natalie said after a while, her voice laced with self–deprecating laughter.

Reid cautiously glanced at them through the rearview mirror, his grip on the steering wheel betraying his nerves.

Brian’s eyes, mirroring a stormy sea, remained fixed on Natalie’s profile, refusing to calm. However, even as they arrived at the hospital, Brian remained silent.

As soon as the car stopped, Natalie tried to get out on her own, but a few shifts caused her vision to blacken with pain.

a fleeting moment, Natalie was close enough to brush against his face, but she awkwardly

him.

out from the emergency room, but Brian, without a word, didn’t set Natalie down. Instead, he carried her swiftly toward the

the entrance. On seeing Brian approach, they wasted no time in wheeling Natalie into the emergency

a blood test, now!” Natalie heard Brian command in

room.

the hospital alone the first time she found out she was pregnant, intending to hide the blood test results. Yet,

mistake and accused her of scheming in silence, planning

be shamed by her and the child, that she had to leave Streamville

her thoughts were foolishly fixated on Brian. She guarded her

was strong enough to brave loneliness in a foreign land, enduring scorn

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that after the child’s birth, Brian would, for the sake of the

she could go back four years, she would tell her naive self, “End it, Natalie. He won’t care for you, nor the child. Don’t be so hopelessly