Chapter 40
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'I need you to take a pregnancy test.'
I couldn't believe my ears. A pregnancy test for what? I wasn't pregnant. Was I?
'Emma, did you hear me?'
'Yes. I'll do it when I wake up again.'
'I love you, baby.'
'I love you, too.'
I fell back asleep as soon as we hung up.
I finally managed to get out of the room. It was the only place I wanted to be, in the room with fresh air and without noise. I called over a private assistant so she could fetch me a pregnancy test. God knew how many scandals and headlines would erupt if I were to walk into a pharmacy or supermarket and buy myself a test. The press had been very interested in me lately and would follow me to the ends of the earth just for a story.
The test was dropped off to my room and I read the directions in a blur, panicking. If there was one line that indicated negative. If there were two that meant positive. I was low-key praying for two.
I peed in a throw away cup and inserted the stick in until it penetrated. The line was appearing, one line... one line... I exhaled as it stayed. I wasn't pregnant.
I threw the cup away and sat down on my bed. I buzzed Halley to bring me up a bottle of fresh orange juice.
'So how are you feeling now?' she asked when she entered.
'Much better.'
'Did you take the test?'
'Yep.'
'And?'
'It's a negative.'
'Are you sure?'
'Of course I'm sure. The stick is on the faucet and the box with the instructions is next to it.'
Halley disappeared to the bathroom. She came back with the stick and the box in came in.
Ew, didn't she know I just pissed on that?
She read the instructions silently to herself then she gazed at the stick. She looked over to me drinking a big bottle of chilled orange juice and read the directions aloud.
'Two lines indicates a positive pregnancy, one lines indicates a negative. Emma, there are two lines on this stick.'
I spat out the orange juice. I took the box and stick from her again and read aloud then looked at the stick again, eyes wide awake this time, not knowing what to feel. It had just been one line, now there were two. Should I be happy or sad?
'Congratulations,' she squealed and pulled me into a hug.
I was still numb and stuck from the stick I was holding. I rubbed my stomach and the tears came from my eyes. I was pregnant with a billionaire's baby.
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The Next Day.
'Girl, you have to call back your fiance and tell him you're pregnant. He's be worried about you, he's even blowing up my phone,' Halley said as she tried to yank me out of bed.
I only moaned in disobedience; all I wanted to do was to stay in and sleep without any noise.
'I'll call him when I wake.'
'No Emma. You better call him now.'
'Halley please, just leave me be. I said I'll call him when I get up.' I threw the covers over me.
She finally gave up and left.
My phone rang again but I ignored it and turned it off.
No Noise!!!
I woke up by a loud bang at the door.
What the hell!!
I jumped up from my sleep and in walked Sharon and Ethan's mother.
Emma's POV
Sharon and Ethan's mom appeared before my eyes. I was half naked and wrapped up between the covers on the bed.
'I don't believe my eyes,' Ethan's mom started as she walked into the room and her eyes locked on me.
'I told you that we'd find her here. Here's the little black prostitute who seduced your son— my fiancee!' Sharon butt in, holding her chest as if she had just swallowed a very large pill.
'You're a shameless maid who'll do anything to get some money, even if that means sleeping in bed with your employer,' Ethan's mom said with a hard look on her face. 'You're disgusting and you disgust me. I'm giving you five minutes to get up and get out of my son's house!'
I was stunned. So stunned that I couldn't speak. I couldn't wrap my mind around what, and who, was in front of me.
'I said to get up!' her voice echoed throughout the room.
I pulled the sheet around me as I stood. She moved closer to me and Sharon tailed right behind her.
'Now you listen to me. You don't belong here, so don't even try. You think you can just spread your legs for my son and weasel your way into this family? This family has standards that you couldn't even dream of meeting. Sharon is his fiancee and she'll remain his fiancee.'
I felt her breath on my face as I squinted my eyes. 'Ethan will hear about this,' I said and reached for my phone, but she was already at it.
She threw it to the floor and smashed into it with her heels continuously until it was nothing but crushed glass underneath her feet.
Sharon smirked.
I held my chest to hold back the tears. 'How could you? What have I ever done to you?' I cried as I remembered that the phone was a present for my birthday.
'I don't like you. I'll never accept you as my daughter-in-law. So, get out of my son's house and get out of his life or you'll rue this day.'
'I can't leave him... I'm p—' but she cut me off with a slap across my face, then another and another. I fell to the floor.
Sharon moved and pulled me by the hair and threw me on the bed. 'You are a very stupid girl. You came here and corrupted my husband and pit him against me while you spread your legs for him. He's not yours. He's mine!'
