Chapter 50. One Choice Left

Athena

After long struggles and finding a way out of the mansion to attend the appointment, the reports I got from the doctor confirmed the unnerving truth that I was actually pregnant and if anything this final confirmation did, was making the terrible hopelessness sink even deeper, trap me in a never-ending haze of despair. This news of my pregnancy has attacked me like a disastrous storm, broke me on a level that even Sebastian hadn’t managed to reach; To say, I was devastated, it wouldn’t even express a tinge bit of my anguish.

I was one month pregnant. For a whole month, my baby has been with me, but I didn’t know. And now that I finally knew, I was drowning in guilt and remorse. I couldn’t picture myself taking my child’s life. I’d rather die than commit such a vicious crime.

“How can I let you go?” Tears freely ran down my cheeks as I put my hand over my stomach. It was only a month but I could already feel my baby’s presence, “I can’t…”

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