Chapter 69 – Don't Want To Be Like Her

(Jessamine’s POV)

Again.

I blinked at the doctor, hearing her, not listening, as she blabbered about the words I sometimes thought were scripted if her patient was pregnant. My emotions were mixed but unknown. When she handed me the prescription, like a robot, I took it, smiled, and thanked her. I even promised to return on the date I had hardly heard of.

I am pregnant!

I should be jumping for joy, thinking of running to Aiden to tell him the news… if it was good news for him. I swallowed hard, my heart thumping loudly in my chest as I exited the clinic. My feet were heavy, dragging them to the hallway and hoping to reach the hospital’s exit door, but as I entered the elevator, my finger automatically pressed the floor number of my brother.

I lied to Deborah. I didn’t visit the hospital to check on my brother’s gift. If our present were like last year, it would be fun to accept the claim that Benedict and I had the same thinking, except for the ‘being meekly obedient’ to our mother.