He Scheduled Me Mon-Wed For Her Thu-Sat For Me novel Chapter 5

Chapter 5

The pain kept me awake.

In a daze, I caught sight of a man with a single eye-Victor from the Kane family, Adrian’s rival.

Back then, after the Kane family destroyed the Sterlings, Victor had let his men beat and torture Adrian for sport.

My dad had been the one to find him and drag him out alive.

Twenty years later, Adrian had risen from the ashes and wiped the Kane famil

off the map.

By the time Adrian arrived, Sienna and I were hanging high above the ground.

Victor stood off to the side with a knife in his hand and made him choose.

The wind shoved us back and forth in the air.

Adrian stared at us, his face so dark it looked carved from stone.

Time dragged.

Victor sawed halfway through my rope, then halfway through Sienna’s.

I looked straight at Adrian.

My eyes begged him. “Save the baby! Sienna isn’t even—’

“Ah!” Sienna screamed over me.

”

She clutched at her stomach and sobbed, “It hurts. Adrian, our baby-

His pupils widened as a flash of struggle crossed his face.

“Audrey,” he said hoarsely, “Sienna’s not strong like you. She’s fragile.”

Then he closed his eyes.

Then, slowly, he said, “I choose Sienna.”

My heart sank, as if I were drowning.

I watched as Victor lowered her, Adrian rushed forward to catch her, and he gathered her into his arms, leaving without a single glance at me.

Then my rope snapped.

The fall came with one violent, deafening crash.

Pain tore through me so hard it felt like my whole body had burst apart.

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Something cold slid down my legs.

“Baby…”

“Audrey!”

Somewhere far away, through the thick darkness swallowing me whole, I thought I heard someone calling my name.

When I woke again, I was back in the hospital.

The baby was gone, taking with it whatever remained of my heart.

The door opened.

Adrian stepped inside.

He saw me lying there, pale and wrecked, covered in bruises and bandages.

“I’ve dealt with Victor,” he said.

After a long silence, he reached for my hand and held it.

“Sienna didn’t grow up the way you did,” he said at last. “She’s not used to fighting her way through life.”

“She’s weak. This pregnancy has been hard on her from the beginning.”

I looked at him and felt nothing, then said two things, the first being, “The baby is dead.”

The second was, “The divorce papers are on the table. Sign them.”

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