Sonia instinctively stood up and stared at Tim entering the place with the document. Even her breath sounded grating to her ears as she clasped her hands in anxiety.
"I-Is the result out?" She parted her lips to speak, but it took a long while before she found her voice. Such an action illustrated that her emotions were in such turmoil that the line which signifies peace might as well be a dot.
Tim looked at her and nodded. "It's out. Have a look."
Then, he passed the document over to her.
When she reached out to take it, her hands shook as she lacked the courage to flip it open.
She was petrified that she would see a positive pregnancy test result but also feared not seeing a positive result.
Such a dilemma tore into her and left her feeling uncomfortable.
Tim raised an eyebrow at her when he noticed Sonia's hesitance as she kept clutching onto the document. "Aren't you going to open it?"
"I'm a scaredy-cat." She looked up with red eyes and replied with a choked sob.
He almost burst out laughing when he heard her response, after which he took the document back from Sonia. "Since you are a scaredy-cat, let me do the honors for you."
"Aren't you my doctor? You would have seen the result earlier, so why don't you spill the beans? Why do we have to bother with the file?" Sonia rubbed her cheeks in mild frustration.
Tim was noncommittal. "That's true. But it's such a waste that you didn't look at the results yourself. So, although I have seen the results, it just isn't the same. Anyway, I'm walking you through the process now. Alright, take a seat."
She nodded and forced herself to sit down.
However, he didn't join her. Instead, he stood opposite her and opened the document to reveal the result.
Sonia's eyes never left his face as she observed his expression. Alas, he had such a poker face that she couldn't decipher the truth no matter how hard her eyes bore holes into him.
It left her somewhat disappointed.
After he took the test result out, he immediately flipped to the last page and gazed at it. Nevertheless, he did not initially inform Sonia of the result, but he suddenly asked, "Before I reveal the truth, I need to know about your thoughts on pregnancy."
"My thoughts?" Sonia was taken aback.
Tim grunted before he continued, "Yeah, because pregnancy is a huge deal. I need to know whether you are prepared and willing to have a kid with Toby."
"I've never thought about it. Didn't you already mention that I should avoid pregnancy for the next two years? Even the possibility of being infertile has crossed my mind. Heck, I never once considered that I'll be pregnant within these two years." She rubbed her temple as she gave a truthful reply.
Once again, he nodded. "That works. Now, look at this from a different point of view. Would you be willing to deliver a child for him, then?"
Sonia grinned. "What do you think? Since I've already accepted him, of course, I'm willing to deliver a child for him. I mean, it's a different story now. I didn't know that the father was Toby during my last pregnancy. So, even if I did, I'd never have chosen to keep the child because I'd already divorced him. I was so against him that I wouldn't even entertain such a possibility. That was why I chose to abort the fetus. Even though I now know what had happened, I would still make the same decision. Even if Carl hadn't poisoned me, I still wouldn't have kept the child because I never thought that I'll reconcile with Toby."
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