The doctor frowned at the store manager, rather dissatisfied that he had interrupted his words. He regarded him as the father of the child and assumed that he did not want the child. "The woman is pregnant for over 20 days," he continued coldly. "You should be glad that the baby is fine. Otherwise, after such a sharp fall like that, more than 90% of babies could not survive such an accident."
The manager's face grew dark and blue, and he swallowed hard and asked slowly and hesitantly, "Well, that… Now she is…" He stuttered and does not know how to finish his sentence.
"She's fine now. It's just a bruise in the skin and some swollen muscles. I'm afraid it'll take a while to be fully recovered." The doctor interrupted his words, but his voice was still cold. He was confused while looking at the manager's facial expressions as they were changing so fast. Adding in an angry tone, the doctor implied, "The embryo is so small that there is no way to do abortion now."
"Okay… Huh?" Totally confused, the shop manager replied, full of doubt. Finally, he realized what the doctor meant, and looking at the doctor with a strange look, he bit his lips and said, "Doctor, that's not my child!"
Surprised at his remark, the doctor gave him a cold look and turned away without saying anything.
The shop manager looked at his back and grimaced. He was depressed with the doctor's misunderstanding. But he knew that the more he explained, the more the doctor would misunderstand him. At last, he just expressed some complaints silently in his mind and went inside the ward to see Ximena.
Uneasy on the bed, Ximena had woken up, and her abdominal pain was gradually relieved by the doctor's treatment, but she couldn't move because of the pain in her waist and buttocks. 'Wow, I am really growing more delicate. Those old days when I did not live with Aaron, I would have got injuries every day and wouldn't even bother to see a doctor. And now…' she thought, laughing at herself secretly.
"Well, that… Miss Mo…" Clearing his throat, the shop manager finally summoned up his courage and said. He rubbed his hands, and continued with a bitter face, "What had happened today…"
"It has nothing to do with you," Ximena cut in lightly. She then saw that the manager was finally so relieved upon hearing her words. All of a sudden, the thought of something came across her mind, so she added immediately, "I'll take care of today's business by myself. I don't want you to meddle in…"
"Hmm?" For a moment, the manager didn't know how to react properly.
"No matter what happens," Ximena said coldly, "you just pretend you didn't know what happened today!"
"…" The shop manager said nothing, smacked the corner of his lower lip and nodded with an awkward smile. He was not a fool, so he knew exactly that Ximena wanted him to keep secret about her pregnancy. He then said, "That…"
As he wanted to ask something, Ximena interrupted him and said indifferently, "You have no business here." Ximena turned her attention from him to the ceiling. "You can leave now."
"Well, I think it's not appropriate for me to leave now, right?"
Shooting a sharp glance at him, Ximena frowned abruptly. Intimidated by the sharp glance, the shop manager said hurriedly, "Well, I'll go back to the store first, and I'll send someone to deliver all the stuff that you had selected to the villa."
"Good," said Ximena lightly. As she watched the manager leave, she was lost in her mind.
She gently laid her hands on her flat belly, where a little embryo that could not be felt at the moment was beginning to grow up. She felt kind of blessed and blissful at the thought of the little angel.
But meanwhile, she was confused, wondering, 'I am taking contraceptives, but why am I still pregnant?'
With a frown on her face, Ximena's hands continued to caress her belly unconsciously. 'Sometimes, people are too complicated to be fully understood, including me. In the beginning, they really don't want to or even hate to have something, but after they actually get it, they will be reluctant to give up and eager to keep it, ' she thought while her mind was racing wildly.
Mechanically blinking her eyes, Ximena forgot the pain from her waist and buttocks but was feeling the little life in her belly, despite that it could not be felt at all at present.
'What should I do now? Should I have an abortion surgery?' she asked herself silently.
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