Seeing her look so down and afraid, Luna’s heart squeezed in pain. She bit her lip, walked in front of Gwen, knelt down, and grabbed Gwen’s hand. ” Gwennie, you… really don’t intend to keep this child?
Gwen closed her eyes and nodded fiercely. She bit her lip, her voice almost squeezed out from between her teeth. “Luna, do you know… every time I think of this child in my stomach, I will remember the events of that day. There were five or six of them… all of them looked like monsters… I don’t know who the child belongs to, all of them forced me… forced me several times.“
Even with her eyes shut tight, tears still slid quietly out of the corners of her eyes. “I can’t move past
this. For the past few days, whether it’s the doctors or the nurses, or even the psychiatrist, all of them
kept persuading me, in my body’s current state, if I insist on getting an abortion, I might be infertile for lie… If there’s an accident during the surgery, I might even lose my life. All of them suggest that I rest for a few months, and after I fully recover, by that time, the child would have grown up, then both the child and I would be safe…“
With that, she opened her eyes and looked straight at Luna. “You have 3 children, I don’t know whether you’ll understand how I feel right now. Even if I give birth to the child, I won’t love him. His father is a criminal and his mother doesn’t love him, giving birth to him would be nothing but a tragedy. That’s why…“
Gwen sucked in a deep breath. “Even if there might be a risk to my life, I don’t want this child to be born.“ She lowered her head. “The doctor said… in another week or two, the child will have a heartbeat, it’ll be a complete lifeform.“
Finally, she sucked in a deep breath and raised her head. “I want to abort him before he becomes a complete lifeform.“
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