Chapter 149 Motherhood

JASMINE

Her sentence lingered in the air and it made my stomach hurt just to think about it for so long. It was always a woman’s choice but I could tell how scary it would have been to essentially be pregnant with a stranger’s child- a stranger who happened to be a completely different species- after having to flee one’s homeland.

I didn’t know Sylvia but the hurt in her voice thawed some of my sympathy.

“Obviously I didn’t follow through,” she noted. “The longer I had the child in my belly, the more reluctant I was to end his life. He was a stranger to me and yet he was my blood. He may not have been conceived ideally but I struggled to let him go.”

She paused for a moment and gazed off in the distance.

Her words and disposition were in a firm contrast to her actions. Clearly, she cared for Cole… so why did she leave him behind and essentially pretend he didn’t exist?

What had happened between then and now?

I wanted to ask but there was no way to ask the question without sounding lik