Chapter 16

“Okay, thank you for the effort, and have a nice day!” I repeated the same sentence and hung up the phone.

I left the club and had enough for a few more months to pay my bills, but I had to find a new job and had to do it as soon as possible. The other money I had was savings which would go towards the baby and possibly daycare.

Finding a proper job as a college dropout was definitely as hard as I expected it to be and it wasn’t exactly going anywhere. I was sick of hearing the same words over and over again.

‘You are not qualified enough.’

‘You are not educated enough.’

There were times when giving the baby up for adoption did sound tempting, but I knew that I wouldn’t be able to handle the pain.

I had blocked Lucio’s number and didn’t answer any of his calls. Each check which was left on my doorstep was politely returned to the same man who dropped them off. I could still not understand why Christian continued to send checks, despite making it p