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Chapter 6: Oh, Boy!

"Are you sure this is going to work?"

Cherry laughed when she heard Jayden's question and even more so when she saw how uncomfortable he looked. He was such a good person and perfectly innocent. Someone like him didn't deserve to be in a relationship with Cara - just like she didn't deserve a boyfriend like Nick. She still couldn't believe that Nick had dumped her as soon as he had laid eyes on his ex-wife again. Actually, it was even worse: That woman she had looked up to for years and seen as an inspiration to women was not a real "sister," but some selfish person who still had the hots for her ex. And it didn't even appear to matter to her that he had humiliated her in public! Come to think of it, why did sweet guys like Jayden always carry torches for women like Cara who just weren't worth it?

"Rest assured that when it comes to keeping up a public image (or rather ruining it in this case), I'm a real pro. And I want to be in control of this narrative," she said to Jayden. It was true: She didn't want to return to New York as the internet girl who had been dumped by Nick Gregory. She rather wanted him to become a pariah, the man who had cheated on this pretty girl from the internet. "That's why I asked you to take me to the nearest clinic because I now need to pretend that something is wrong with the baby and that I'm having early contractions."

"Right," Jayden said and handed her the hot chocolate she had requested, although nothing was all right and he was totally confused about all the things that had happened since he had arrived in Switzerland with Cara. "But you're feeling fine?"

"Of course," she said with a smile and posed for a quick selfie in front of her bathroom mirror. Yet she couldn't be totally fine because she looked as if she had swallowed a football. "Just tell me when that cab you ordered arrives."

"And you surely didn't mean what you said about your baby not being his?" Jayden asked carefully.

"That's the big question, isn't it?" Cherry replied. "My followers have been going wild over this question for hours. Now if you'd excuse me, I need to go to the toilet, like, urgently..."

He went back into the living room as she had requested, but he did so gladly because he did not like the wild look in her eyes, the very same look he had first seen in them when she had burned that bra. Her behaviour scared him. Was it possible that she was on the edge of nervous breakdown? Who would blame her, given the fact that her partner had cheated on her and that she was about to have a baby? Nonetheless, he couldn't understand why it took her two full hours to get her hairstyle and make-up right before she could go anywhere. Perhaps being a social media star wasn't as great as he had thought before.

After a few minutes, a very strange noise came from the bathroom, and he heard her call out, "Jayden, are you still here?"

For some strange reason he couldn't explain, he was alarmed at once. "Yes, I am. Are you okay in there?"

"Not really," Cherry said. And she wasn't: When he went back into the bathroom, she sat on the floor, and there was a puddle of fluid on the floor and on the dress she was wearing. Before he could say anything or even grasp what was happening, she explained, "I think we really need that cab now because this baby is on its way, and it's coming fast!"

"Okay, let me get help!" Before she could say anything, he had already bolted out of that bathroom and was running towards the reception in a state of shock.

Nick thought it was strange that the door to Cherry's suite was open when he arrived there with Cara a few minutes later. "Do you really think coming here was a good idea?"