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chapter 18: Took away everything

Archie's POV

"Gia, stopping running around. You could get lost." I warn her with a stern voice as she keeps leaving my hand and running off.

This market place is so huge and she's just a small child. Without any doubt she'll get lost if I don't keep an eye on her. That's why I insist her to hold my hand but she doesn't listen. She's so stubborn and I have to literally beg her for many things, just like her father. Her father, that thought reminds me Kian and the little time we spent together.

Shaking my head, I try not to remember anything about him. Now, he must already be happy with his family. He would have a child, wouldn't he?

Even though it was shocking, after running away from him I came to know I'm pregnant. I didn't believe in the beginning because it's so clear that I'm a man and a man can't get pregnant nor birth a child. However, I couldn't help but believe when I started having weird cravings and growing if my tummy. I was utterly happy at the new revelation and couldn't help but cry happy tears. I thought of going back to Kian and announce to everyone that I'm pregnant and that I can give the heir my mother-in-law ever longed for.

However, as soon as that thought came, I brushed it off immediately. Because by then Kian would already be married and I didn't want to ruin someone's life.

When I ran away, I didn't stop anywhere and ran for so long until my legs gave out. I was so desparate to leave Kian and not get caught by him for when he finds out about my missing and comes chasing after me. At a point, I lost my consciousness. I woke up in a physician's lab and saw Dean. I was so surprised seeing him and he told me how he found me.

He said he saw me in the woods, lying unconscious when he was visiting the neighborhood kingdom. Not knowing why and how I was there without Kian and in such bad condition, he decided to first take me to his place. He brought me to the physician who checked me. He said my condition confused the physician to the point where he had to bring another physician to assist himself and to confirm whether what he found out was true or not, that I'm pregnant or not.

When I woke up two days after, the physician revealed that I was expecting. I didn't believe him. How could I? It's not possible for a male to get pregnant, that never happened before. I was no fool to believe such untruthful words. But all the changes in my body made me believe there's a human in me.

It was hard, those nine months were so hard that at some point of times, I just wanted to end my life. Carrying a child was hard but going through everything without the father was even more harder. If it wasn't for Dean, I would have already be dead by now. He was there at every step and took care of me like an elder brother. He gave me shelter and assigned a person who would stay with me and look after me every second. He made sure no one knew who I'm. I lived like invisible person.

I only agreed to stay here after taking a promise from him that he's never going to tell Kian about me and anything that happens there to me. If Kian knows about me and that I'm carrying his child, he for no doubt will come and get me, even if it means to abend his now wife. And I didn't want that. I asked him not to inform anything happening in there because as much as I like Kian to be with his wife, I don't want to hear their happy stories. And Dean understood me and agreed to all my conditions.

He hide me from everyone, even from his parents. But after his marriage with Winny and his father's changed behaviour, he let them know about me. They all understood my situation and just like him they agreed to my requests.

Once I gave birth, my baby became my whole world. She's the only reason I'm still living. When she was born, I named her as Gia because she's a blessing in my life, the life which I almost gave up. She brought colors into my dark life and made me smile after so many months. When I first touched her, I felt unspeakable emotions and I got attached to her to the point that I can't live without her even for a second.