The Traps of the Black Swan

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[WARNING: Depressing chapter ahead. Read at your own risk.]

In the morning, the complete strangers, Shane and Maisie Burnett woke up next to each other without proper recovery of their memory from the previous night other than knowing they lost control over themselves the previous night.

Both blamed each other and argued for a long time in the hotel before deciding to mind their own path without taking any precautions for the things they did. Both hid everything about the night from the family and friends to bury it down forever.

It was after a month, Maisie didn't get her menses and the pregnancy morning sickness started, then she ended up knowing she was pregnant for four weeks and the father of it was a stranger.

Twenty-one year old, a young and beautiful girl stood in front of the gynec department holding the test reports crying her eyes out.

At her age, her dream to rule the entertainment industry, and her life as a celebrity, she wasn't ready to stake them due to one mistake.

For her dreams, goals, and her own life, all she could care about was only her but not the life growing in her womb. She can't let anybody know she is pregnant with a child of an unknown man, her family would abandon her, her friends will laugh at her, her image of a delicate well-bred lady would fade.

She didn't have the courage to live alone or be a single parent, she wasn't brave enough to talk to her family to come up with a solution.

She didn't bother to take time to think or ask for suggestions. In an hour she went back to the same doctor, "I want to abort." She was decisive that she didn't want a child but to save herself from misery.

However, the doctor called her family without her knowledge asking her to wait. She was preparing for abortion when her grandfather stroke across her cheeks and dragged her away from the hospital.

The Burnett family wasn't only angry for knowing her pregnant out of wedlock but also for grasping that she was aborting the innocent life.

Maisie tried to kill her child when her family searched for the man. She had tried to get aborting medicines from the medical shop but failed. She drank medicine herbs that could kill the fetus but ended up in the bed and heard the fetus was fine.

In less than a week later, the Burnett family and Kim family sat for the talk. The families were fine with each other due to the same status but not the ones who have to get married. The duo fought in front of everyone but the elders didn't care.

After numerous warnings, threatening, scolding, intimidating, Maisie and Shane tied a knot without unknotting their relationship.

The newly wedded couple got a magnificent villa as a wedding gift from two families but it was a battleground every day. Just the sight of each other, they argued like archenemies and lived like strangers without a bother of the little life they created.

Despite being warned, Maisie had been admitted to hospital at various times whenever she tried to kill the baby that led the two families to threaten her again. The Burnett family informed her they wouldn't take her to the family if she kills the baby, the Kim family patriarch announced he would throw her out of the family.

The threats and helplessness riled up Maisie more. As a result, she drank alcohol almost every day, cursed Shane and the baby endlessly.

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While the bystander called it a miracle to see the baby born weak but healthy, the mother had kicked the baby's crib and left the hospital without care and the father never went to see the baby.