In her dream, Yannie vaguely heard Thomas saying he had a three–month–old baby, but she could not
remember anything else. After all, she was dog–tired.
It was 8 p.m. when Yannie finally woke up from her sleep. The first thing that popped into her head was
her dream about Thomas telling Hugo he was a father to a three–month–old baby.
She rubbed her throbbing head, but she could not tell if it was a dream or if she overheard it during her
sleep when Thomas and Hugo were talking.
After much thinking, she decided to go ask Thomas.
When she got out of bed, she realized she had been sleeping on Thomas‘ bed. She clearly
remembered falling asleep on the sofa in the mansion!
Did Hugo have someone else carry her upstairs after seeing how tired she was? Nonetheless, Thomas
had arranged a room for her ever since he requested her to stay in the mansion. If Hugo wanted to
send her to the room, he should have sent her back to her room instead.
Moreover, her room was on the first floor, and Thomas‘s room was on the second floor. There was no
way to mix things up!
She stood in the room and looked at the familiar yet strange design. Her mind was a mess. It was
impossible for her to end up in Thomas‘ bedroom!
After a while, Yannie took a deep breath. This was not the time to ponder about what happened, and
she should leave the room before Thomas returned back. She did not want the egoistic man to think
she was up to something and ended up sleeping in his room!
With that, she quickly walked to the door and wanted to leave, only to note in horror that the door was
locked from the outside.
Worse still, when she was trying to open the door, she saw herself on the metal door handle‘s
reflection. The only thing she was wearing were her lacy bra and panties. Her slender and fair legs and
arms were exposed!
When she looked down, she saw the stretch marks on her belly. For a minute, she was bewildered
before she stubbornly extended her hands, to touch the
stretch marks on her belly. Her heart was in pain.
If it were not for the news DbUg[‘{K the stretch marks on her belly, she would have forgotten she was
once a mother. It had been three months, and she had used that three months to stop grieving the
death of her baby.
All that…
All that effort, yet her past came back to haunt her. Her pregnancy news was all over the city, while the
belly she fought hard to hide during the advertisement shooting was exposed.
She closed her eyes, and at this very moment, she felt lost at how uncertain her future seemed. After
what happened this morning, she felt even more helpless about the days to come.
Although she did not know who brought her to the room, she swore she fell asleep on the sofa and was
wearing clothes at that time. Someone must have brought her to Thomas‘ room, taken off her clothes
to expose her stretch marks, and locked her inside the room.
It was as though…the perpetrator wanted to let Thomas see how embarrassed and disgusting she was
when he returned to the room.
Amid her despair, Yannie heard footsteps coming from the end of the walkway, and there were two
different footsteps.
One sounded like the footsteps produced from leather shoes, possibly a male. The other sounded like
the clicking of high heels.
The footsteps were getting closer and closer.
“Thomas, I did some investigation.
“The information published on the news is real. Yannie had delivered a baby before!” rang Wendy‘s
voice, evidently gloating.
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