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.

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.

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

On seeing Brian approach, they wasted no

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

room.

ceiling. She remembered going to the hospital alone the first time she found out she was pregnant,

of scheming in silence, planning to

the child, that

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

brave loneliness in

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Brian would, for the sake of

she could go back four years, she would tell her naive self, “End it, Natalie.