a's
t the doctor was going to say. My heart flipped
s the bag I was holding dropped to the ground, crystal welling up i
g tricks on me. That, indeed, I was getting my gift after all of these years when I
are in your early trimester, so you ought to
office while I sank deeper in thought. Maybe, perhaps, this
*****
watched the rain drizzle against the window
own distant, I knew that he would come around and that to
unctured through the air, and leaning
I won't be back, you should sleep in.
tly to the spread on the table as I reminded
I clenched my gown while my
myself up, not wanting to show weakness before the maids w
h the foyer, the ring on my finger burnt so h
h, nightmares of Ryan letting me know that what we had was a mistake, and although I tried so
that I had seen, and I had hoped it wasn't for us even when the names on it burn
til I couldn't breathe, but I thought everything would change when he came home tonight, and
n exactly he had kept getting withdrawn, but everything had changed barely a year after our marriag
flickering to the phone, batting my eyes. I made su
's voice came across. A screa
ne is answering, where are you? We ought to be outsid
tired. I have been sleeping, and
r while piercing her gaze at me. Her love with Richard had seen he
and you are supposed to co
flickered through the room while I sh
rything so she wouldn't get worried. I didn't want her to know of the pain tha
her holding two bottles of wine
appily before storming in, her step
here?" My hands r
ere so down, and wha
while I tried to come up with words to dismiss her question, my hands flung the drapes
ot to. I needed to sleep i
waist like she wasn't convi
ng up the pace while she stomped past
, my steps quickening behind hers whi
," I pl
into the room only to meet her eyes o
nt?" She revolve
" she said in a shriek, p
eeks while I held her hands. "
ile she held me even closer to herself,
lad to hear of this, wh
been stuck against the edge
ttend to, and he would be go
it dawned on her what
no way he would do that. Richard is h
e sudden word that I had heard, and my eye
idn't want to be with me. He knew he knew, but he would rather not
" She
voice came firme
rt; you have to stay stro
s sudden change, his sudden silence, his withdrawal, and
himself," Reina sneered, standing to her feet when a voice spoke
rned holes through Ryan, who stood w
will be getting engaged soon. She has been a source of strength to me...
o," he added, and my vision darken