Lola couldn't understand what the two pictures on the top half of the report meant, but she could definitely understand the words below: Ultrasound report: single live intrauterine pregnancy of about 12 weeks 0 days AOG.
The same result as what the test strip indicated that morning.
Three months... She had been pregnant for three months.
That result was not unbelievable to Lola actually, cause Harry never used condom or allowed her to take contraceptive pills. He wanted her to bear him ten children...
"But what am I supposed to do with this baby?" she was lost in thought.
After checking Lola's report which showed that she and her baby were perfectly healthy, the doctor advised her to eat more nutritious food. Besides, since Lola had an abortion once, the doctor instructed her to take more rests and not to strain herself.
Lola sat on her bed and looked down at the report. She was going to be a mother again.
She wondered if she should tell Harry about the baby.
After a deep consideration, she decided to raise the baby on her own without letting him know. After all, they had divorced. The baby had nothing to do with him.
She had lost one baby before, so she told herself to be more careful this time.
Then she picked her mobile phone up and called her manager. Leaning that Lola want to resign, the manager was astonished. Although Lola was a super star before, she was nice and worked hard. It would be a great pity for her to lose Lola.
Lola just explained that she had some personal stuff to deal with. The manager tried to persuade her. But Lola seemed to be determined. The manager said no more but asked Lola to go there to get her salary.
Harry came to Lola's home someday later. He knocked and knocked but nobody answered.
Afterwards, he encountered Zoe, who came to Lola's home to collecting things, and forced him to tell him where Lola was. Zoe told him Lola had moved away. But he didn't know where Lola was, either.
It was the first time Harry had experienced that anguished feeling when his beloved was missing suddenly. He was deadly depressed.
He realized that someone who professed to leave wouldn't go far actually. But someone who was determined to leave would leave quietly without exchanging goodbyes. Lola was the latter.
Half a month later, Harry and Yolanda got engaged. Their engagement party was luxurious with many big shots attending. Coupled with Harry and Yolanda's social status, their engagement caused a worldwide sensation.
In an apartment with two bedrooms and one living room in an old alley on the outskirts of D City.
The apartment was not new but tidy enough. Lola was sitting on the sofa and staring at the man in TV with tears streaming down her face. She moved her hand onto her burgeoning baby bump, "Baby, you see? You father is getting engaged with the woman who had killed your sister or brother. From now on, only we two can keep each other company!"
Lola wiped tears off and looked up at the blue sky through window. After calming herself down, she walked to the yard, turned on the tap, collected a half barrel of water, and slowly carried it towards the kitchen.
The tap in the kitchen was broken days ago, so she could only get the water in the yard before the tap was repaired.
The door was opened suddenly at that time. It was Jordan and Joseph coming in. They looked around the shabby yard and frowned. Then they caught sight of Lola who was tottering to the kitchen with a water barrel laboriously. "Lola!" Joseph called Lola.
Joseph? Lola turned around with surprise and saw Joseph was standing at the door of the yard with a cold man in a military uniform.
Both of them were looking at Lola with a swollen belly with a mixed feeling. Joseph was on the verge of tears. They hadn't seen each other for a long time. Maybe it's because she didn't wear any make-up during pregnancy, she looked a little pale.
Lola was wearing a loose dark purple maternity dress and a pair of flat shoes.
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