Chapter 6

“I can’t be pregnant!” Layla screamed in her room as she looked at the two colored lines on the strip, which meant the test was positive.

“I took the pills. I don’t want Jack Lockwood’s baby. What am I going to do?” she said wearily as she paced around in her room. Her face looked restless as she brought out her phone to call Jack Lockwood.

“The line is switched off,” the phone responded as she tried again countless times.

“Oh no! What should I do?” she said, stressed out from the recent course of events that had changed her life drastically. ‘A few years ago, I was with the love of my life, and now here I am, pregnant with someone I barely know,’ she thought deeply.

“I am such an idiot. Why would I engage in a one-night stand with a stranger, and now the asshole is not picking up my calls?” she said angrily. Pacing around her room, she finds a glass of water on the table and throws it at the wall. With shattered glass on the floor, she rushed over to clean