Rebecca leaned in and breathed in a sinister tone. “Did you really think he did not know about the child? If your child didn’t die in your mother’s hands, he would have been smothered by the prenatal vitamins that Jared gave you. The man closest to you is more frightening than you could ever imagine.”
My stomach churned. A metallic taste cumulated inside my mouth before I retched blood.
Rebecca’s eyes widened as her delight grew. “You’ve lost—utterly and completely.”
She stood up and loomed over me briefly before she made her exit.
When Ashton returned, I was in a daze as I stared at the pool of claret on the floor. The only sensation I felt was pain—in my chest and in the very fibers of my being.
“What happened here, Scarlett?” he said as he extended his hand to lend support.
Slap!
That backhand, rendered with every ounce of energy that was left inside of me, seemingly had no effect whatsoever on him.
The man’s slender frame stiffened as he tried to suppress his anger. “What’s going on?”
I suddenly found him extremely revolting. “Get out of here!”
He furrowed in response and swept me into his arms before he took me back inside the hospital.
I was examined and made to undergo numerous tests.
Upon completion, I lay on the hospital bed and stared vacuously at the pitch-black screen of the LCD television. “Let’s get a divorce, Ashton!”
It would be best if we went our separate ways.
The rage he tried to force down boiled over. “Do you know what you are saying?”
I lowered my puffy eyes and lifted my hands to soothe them. “It was a mistake right from the beginning. Right now, it’s still not too late to split up and start over.”
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