CHAPTER 3: IT'S OVER

"Congratulations ma'am, you are pregnant," the doctor said. 

"Pregnant how? I've not been intimate with anyone ever since my last fiancè."

"It's 3 months pregnant, I'm surprised how you had no idea that you were pregnant."

"Perhaps you are giving me the wrong result. Can you please check again?"

"If you wish," the doctor said.

She sat in her car for as long as she could remember. Nothing was coming to her, no memory of the tiniest bit was coming to her.

She drove home and met Jason in a heated argument with a different lady.

"You better take that pregnancy elsewhere. You know my status, that's why you are trying to pin it on me right?"

"What's going on here, Jason?" She asked.

"Not now Cara, leave."

"I'm just trying to.."

"I said get out from here. Leave," he shouted at her before she could complete her statement.

She grabbed her bag and rushed to her room with tears forming gradually in her eyes.

The past few months, she had watched the jovial Jason go back to the rude Jason she always knew. 

Her heart fluttered anytime she saw him, he was always around to help and make jokes and do something stupid that would make her smile.

Few months ago, he changed back. Always angry, rude, complaining and calling her names.

She was sure that she was in love with him but here she was with no memory of how she got pregnant. How could he fall in love with her, knowing she is a loose woman.

She helped herself to the kitchen and overheard him talking to the lady.

"I'm going to give you some money to abort that worm inside of you. After that, 5 million dollars will be transferred to your account as compensation. I don't want you anywhere near me again. Do you understand?"

"Yes, yes," the lady whimpered.

"The last thing I want now is a child tying me down," he said.

Cara instinctively touched her tummy. What if the father of the child wants her to remove it as well? Even if she had no idea of who it was, she was ready to protect her little baby.

"Why is your hand on your tummy?" His voice broke into her thoughts.

"Uhmmm, nothing. I'm just supporting myself that way," she answered.

"Whatever," he walked past her without looking at her. "What did the doctor say is wrong with you?"

"Just a fever, he told me to rest well and I'll be good in a couple of days."

"Or are you pregnant?" He towered over her and she shifted back.

"Pregnant? No, no, I-I-I'm not. I'm just tired," she stuttered.

"Are you sure?" He dimmed his eyes at her.

"So you care suddenly? I said I'm not," she repeated.

"Whatever, it's your business. If you like, be pregnant, you deal with the mess yourself. The contract marriage will be over soon and you can carry the child to whoever owns it," he said and walked out.

Tears filled her eyes unconsciously.

*****

The contract marriage was finally over. Cara's tummy had started coming out a bit, so she wore big clothes to cover it.

Jason walked into the house one day, only to find her room empty. Her entire luggage had gone, the room was just the way it was. He switched on the bedside lamp, only to find a note addressed to him.

'Dear Jason,' it read. 'You asked last month if I was pregnant. Well yes, I am and I have no idea who owns the pregnancy. I thought I could talk to you about it but your attitude the past few days was frightening.

I'm not a loose woman. I just don't know how it happened. I couldn't bear seeing you angry everyday, it broke my heart so much.

I was beginning to get accustomed to you, I was beginning to see you in a different light and like you, not until you changed again.

I was scared, what if the father of the child doesn't want it the way you don't want your child. I don't want to believe every man is like you but I can't seem to shake it away from my feelings. I'll love and care for my child so much.

Well thank you so much for everything, the marriage was fun while it lasted.

According to the world, you are still my partner. I trust you to take care of my father's company in my absence. 

I've taken some time away, to a different place to find a peaceful place to birth my child.

Thank you so much for everything. With love, Cara.'

Jason staggered to the bed and fell on it. He had messed up. Cara was pregnant with his child and he had said unhealthy words to the woman carrying his child. 

On top of it, she liked him irrespective of how he behaved to her. He had to find her, he had to fix his mistake as soon as possible. He called her lines and both of them didn't exist anymore.

It was late at night, he rushed to her father's house, lo and behold, she wasn't there.

Every friend he knew with her, none has seen her. He kept driving around, praying for a miracle that it shouldn't be late.

"Where could she have gone?" He stood beside his car on a semi-quiet street, worried about her wellbeing. He had messed up badly, he knew.

A figure crept beside him, pointing a gun at him in the dark.

"If it isn't Cara's husband," Nathan pulled the hood on his head down to make his face visible.

"Chill man, what is this?"

"I knew it was you behind it all. Cara was smart, yes but not too smart. I knew you were all behind the marriage thing. She couldn't have thought about leaving me herself."

Jason shifted from his position, he tried to divert his attention in order to call for help.

"Don't try anything stupid, Jason," Nathan said.

"What do you want?"

"I want your life, after I take yours, then I'll go after her. Find her and make her my bitch forever, she is mine. Just mine alone, no matter how I treat her."

"Okay bro, she's all yours. Go for her, I'm sure she still loves you."

Nathan laughed. "I'm not an idiot. I've been tailing you around. The great billionaire, looking like a lost puppy because of a bitch. I popped her cherry myself, she would let me have her anytime I was ready. Not until you came into the picture."

Deep down, Jason was boiling as he called the woman he loved names.

"You don't have to call her names. Drop the gun, let's settle things like a man," Jason said.

"Oh definitely, we'll settle it like a man. You know me too well, I'll settle it my own way."

He fired a bullet into Jason's chest before Jason could register anything in his brain, running away almost immediately.

Jason laid on the floor with his blood in a river-like position, gasping for breath.

"Cara, please where are you?" Those were the last words that left his lips before his eyes went shut.