"𝗜 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲."
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Elena's life is flipped upside down when her sister runs away on her wedding day and she is forced to marry her husband who despises her.
He hates her with...
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|Sebastian Ferguson|
"We're too late," Jane sighed distraughtly, her shoulders sinking. "She got to him first."
I followed my stepmother's gaze to the private hospital room before us, which had a large window that allowed us to see inside.
Delilah lay on the bed with a few beeping monitors around her. She was visibly crying and miserable, her face red and puffy.
Xavier sat on a stool right next to the bed, holding her hand. Between them two, I couldn't tell who was in a worse condition emotionally.
I couldn't remember the last time I'd seen Xavier so devastated and helpless, clinging onto the woman he'd seemed to hold feelings of resentment towards the last time we'd spoken. Certainly, whatever had transpired in the previous few days they'd cohabited must've turned the tables around, or maybe it was today's incident that'd put both Delilah and the baby's lives at risk.
Whatever the situation was, I still couldn't understand how so much could change so quickly.
What kind of words had she told him that'd broken him so badly out of character to show the person inside him I'd been fighting to reach since his mom married my dad and we stopped being friends?
As if their seemingly affectionate interaction wasn't confusing me enough already, the two seemed to speak until eventually Xavier lifted his hand under Delilah's guidance and placed it on her protruding stomach.
Jane sighed so loudly that she caught my attention. She seemed so pissed and disappointed at the same time.
"Did they already do a DNA?" I found myself asking her, turning away from the room so I could face her. "That's pretty much touching if you'd ask me, and it almost feels certain they know for certain he's the father."
I didn't know how exactly that made me feel, but I couldn't entirely ignore the feelings of anger and maybe betrayal rising inside me.
I didn't want to suppress them so much because I'd had this conversation with myself over and over again and told myself I had every right to feel the way I felt.
I didn't know who to direct my feelings of anger and betrayal towards—Xavier or Delilah. He'd been constantly confident he hadn't been involved with Delilah, and I'd believed him. Even now, I told myself there was more to this story than what I merely observed, and only a proper conversation could clear things up.
I wasn't so sure about Delilah. Seeing the way he looked at Xavier and held onto him made me realise that perhaps I'd just been foolish and blindly in love for several months. She'd always been in love with him, not me.
"The procedure has been scheduled, but it hasn't happened yet, but of course, being the puppy he is when it comes to innocent babies, Xavier has fallen so deep into that sly fox's trap that he'll take care of that baby even if he's not his."
