The pills were different from what I usually took.
Although I studied obstetrics, I could still tell the difference.
Unless I was still groggy from sleep, I wouldn’t have mixed them up.
The bottle was on the bedside table.
Usually, no one else but Antonio would enter my room.
The answer was clear.
My hand holding the pills started shaking uncontrollably.
In the end, I collapsed to the floor with a thud.
“It’s impossible…”
I desperately tried to comfort myself, trying to believe in Antonio.
After all, we had truly been in love for so many years.
At our best, he’d protected me from a car accident, shielding me with his body just to keep me safe.
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He said, “Grace, you mean more to me than anything, even more than myself. I can’t lose you.”
That day, I cried until I could barely breathe, vowing to love him forever.
Today, I was crying just as hard, but now I was searching for a reason to still believe in him.
Antonio.
Please, don’t let it be you…
It wasn’t until the third day that I finally asked Chloc.
“Grace. this is hormone medication. You can’t just take it while pregnant. It could cause birth defects.”
I froze completely, unable to hear anything else.
The guilt in Antonio’s eyes when he left that day.
I finally understood.
My last bit of hope for Antonio shattered completely.
Years of love.
It couldn’t withstand the pressure anymore.
It collapsed, once and for all.
Antonio didn’t come back on the third day.
I sat on the couch in a daze, staring at nothing as the day faded into night, then back into another day.
The phone kept buzzing non–stop. But I didn’t answer.
Eventually, it ran out of battery and shut off, leaving me in complete silence.
The eighth was my birthday. I sat outside the operating room and called Antonio.
“Grace? You’re finally calling me back? Are you still mad? I’ve been so busy. I couldn’t get away.”
“I’m doing this for the triple pay! Can’t you understand that? You keep
ignoring my calls and messages. What do you want me to do? If you can’t handle it, then just divorce me already. It’s not like I can keep putting up with this!”
His tone was as harsh as ever by the end.
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