The Cold Surgeon's Contract Bride novel Chapter 774

But I had already swallowed it. I shook my head listlessly at them. "It's fine. I didn't think it was that sour."

The tangerine was incredibly tart, but the bitterness radiating from my heart was far worse.

A terrifyingly familiar dread washed over me. Just like when I was tormented by the ambiguity between Ferris and Zoey, my own paranoid suspicions were tearing me apart all over again.

The head nurse was right. Fruit didn't lie; people did.

Ferris had lied to me. He and Zoey couldn't possibly be completely innocent. The hickey on his neck was undeniable proof!

Memories flooded my mind like a violent tidal wave, unearthing forgotten details.

There was the time Ferris made me act as his chauffeur, forcing me to drive him and Zoey on a date. I had dropped them off for dinner and chauffeured them back to their little love nest.

That night, I had literally sat downstairs and watched them go up together. The lights flipped on, and Ferris stayed in that illuminated apartment for a very long time...

It was glaring, inescapable reality, yet I had willfully turned a blind eye to it.

I had been so desperate to hold onto hope that the moment he turned around and fed me a few sweet words, I forgave him instantly. I swallowed his excuses without a second thought and rushed straight back into his arms.

But I had seen those things with my own two eyes.

You couldn't just invent that kind of evidence.

"Are you serious? How can you not think this is sour? Are your taste buds broken, Selena? We should get that checked out!" Amber stared at me in shock.

The head nurse looked equally baffled. "Are you really okay? I seem to recall you hating sour foods. Since when did you develop a taste for them?"

"Oh, I know about this!" Amber practically shouted, eager to share her knowledge. "Some pregnant women in the maternal ward say their palates completely change! People who hate sour foods suddenly crave them. They say it's because the baby dictates the cravings!"

Midway through her explanation, Amber froze. A beat of stunned silence passed before she asked tentatively, "Selena, are you... pregnant?"