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.

car. For a fleeting moment, Natalie was close enough to brush against his face, but she awkwardly turned away, unwilling to be so near

him.

Brian, without a word, didn’t set Natalie down. Instead,

waited anxiously at the entrance. On seeing Brian approach, they wasted no time in wheeling

Natalie heard Brian command in a deep voice from outside the

room.

blankly at the stark white ceiling. She remembered going to the hospital alone the first time she found out she was pregnant, intending to hide the blood test results. Yet, the very next day, she learned of the Howard family’s plan to send

her womb a mistake and accused her of scheming in silence, planning to use the child as leverage against the Howard family to shield

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

She guarded her unborn child zealously, fearing any mishap would anger

enough to brave loneliness in a foreign land, enduring scorn and prejudice to protect his offspring.

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the child’s birth, Brian would, for the sake of the child, listen to her explanation and

four years, she would tell her naive self, “End it, Natalie. He

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