Chapter 19

Nera sat on the bed with her aching body, staring at her negative pregnancy test. Four months of hormone treatment, daily rough sex, and no sex pills but the tests were still negative.

She felt cursed; as if someone was punishing her for a crime she did not commit. She wanted to cry, but there were no tears because they had all dried up from the negative tests she had to take every month.

She had no idea what was going on; even the doctor was unable to provide adequate answers.

Marcus stood in the room, watching his wife wallow in self-pity; they had been without a child for almost two years, and the town was already gossiping. And with most of them being backward like him, they all thought she was the problem.

Even his workers and servants were talking, and he was forced to fire one of them who had the audacity to gossip about his wife in his presence.

Four months passed without him coming up with a solution, and seeing his wife depressed was also killing him.

The idea of injecting f