SUBMERGED IN YOU (AMBW Romance)

The Event

Hideo

Flashback....

"Please Hideo, don't do this" the woman at my feet sobbed , the fear and distress now apparent in her usually cold and confident voice. I looked at the shaking gun in my hand and then down at her.
"Hideo, please. You know I love you. I never meant to hurt you" she begged using the usual cliche line. She was such a good actress. In all our time together, ever since she was young, I'd never seen her break down or cry, now it was like the dam wall holding back her tears, had broken
"Love me?" I laughed dryly. There was a time I would've done anything to hear those words, but now they just caused me so much anguish, hearing them from her lying lips.
"You don't love anyone Sora. I wonder if you know the meaning of the word" I switched off the safety of the gun and the click resounded.
"We can start over, move to Okinawa or anywhere that you want. Away from all this". She even had the audacity to throw my dreams and hopes for the two of us, back in my face.
"Please tell me, you're not stupid enough to think, you would get away with double crossing me. To think that I wouldn't find out!"
Still, I didn't pull the trigger. In my whole life I had never hesitated to pull the trigger and I was a shoot first, questions later kind of guy. And yet at this moment, I couldn't bring myself to kill the woman who had been the love of my life, once upon a time.
"I didn't want it to come to this. But you have to know something before you kill me. I'm pregnant". Her tearful and crestfallen face disappeared and was instead replaced by her everyday game face. And there it was, the trump card I had been waiting for. The one I knew she would inevitably pull on me. Because Sora Fukuda, was never out of plans and she was always a step ahead of everyone.
"What?" the gun in my hand wavered.
"You can call any doctor you want to do the test. I can wait" she shrugged. Sora was a liar and manipulator, but I could see that there was no deception on her features. In fact she looked rather bored and impatient now.
"Is it mine?" the idea of having a spawn with this devil's incarnate of a woman, revolted me to no end.
"To be honest, I'm not even sure who the father is" she shook her head.
"Right, you were fucking the two of us at the same time. Given your track record, maybe more" I sneered at her. She just shrugged at me.

I was a lot of things and I had done a lot of things in my life, but killing pregnant women was not one of them. No matter how much I wanted to kill her and no matter how much she betrayed me. I lowered my gun and put the safety back on.
"Looks like you have to save this face off for another day" she smirked at me. There was also no way I would wait for her to deliver the baby and kill her. Depriving a child of its mother, no matter how evil said mother was, just wasn't my style. There was also the possibility that the child she was carrying was also mine.
"We will schedule a non invasive paternity test" I told her. It didn't matter either way, mine or not, this bitch wasn't going to die and pay for what she had done. She had checkmated me.