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.

close enough to brush against

him.

wheeled a gurney out from the emergency room, but Brian, without a word, didn’t set Natalie

at the entrance. On seeing Brian approach, they wasted no time

now!” Natalie heard Brian command in a deep voice

room.

she stared 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 abroad.

silence, planning to use the child as leverage against the Howard

by her and the child, that she had to leave Streamville to prevent any tarnish to their

thoughts were foolishly fixated on Brian. She guarded her unborn child

couldn’t quite understand how her affection for him was strong enough to brave loneliness in a foreign land,

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

her naive self, “End it, Natalie. He won’t care for you, nor the

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