-- Grizelda --
I blinked back confusion and tried to make out the doctor's face. He wasn't joking. The smile on his face was huge.
"Who is your husband? He must be happy to hear the news." I traced his vision to the ring on my finger. I was still wearing my wedding ring so now he must have thought I was still married. "Your first pregnancy?"
"Hold on a bit, doctor. It must be a mistake. I can't be pregnant. I don't remember sleeping with any man since I got married."
"Not even your husband?" The doctor's eyes flew wide open.
"No, no, that's not what I meant. What I'm trying to say is that my husband is impotent. So there's no way I'm pregnant for him. And neither have I slept with another man that wasn't him. Please you have to recheck again."
"I'm sorry, ma'am. But it's the truth. We can't be wrong here. You're pregnant and it's up to four months now." The doctor reaffirmed. "Or do you want to abort it?"
"No, no." I tried to breathe as my head struggled to digest the information.
I looked down at my stomach and held it in my hand as if noticing the slight bulge for the first time. Was it really true? And if it were, was Alexander really responsible for it? Or was it a miracle Jesus in my stomach? Just like it happened to Mary in the Bible?
I felt renewed tears pinching at my eyes and I sniffed as I felt a tickling in my nose, caused by my endless batch of tears. I couldn't believe that a day would come when I would experience pregnancy. I already gave up on it long since. After all these years of endless trials before the news was broken to us that Alexander was impotent.
"Thank you, doctor." I wiped my tears and prepared to leave. "I will keep it."
The doctor simply smiled again as I left his presence and returned to Jax who was waiting for me at the reception.
"Grizzy!" He shouted and ran to me, cupping my cheeks immediately. "Are you okay? Were you treated? How's your stomach now?"
"I'm..." I took in a deep breath. "I'm pregnant."
His hands dropped from my face and he became dumbfounded for a few seconds. I watched him take a few steps back and he looked down at my stomach. He looked up at me again and my eyes were the same. I knew what he was thinking. He knew there was no way I was in the mood to be making jokes.
"And you sure there was no mistake anywhere?" He asked the same question that initially ran through my mind.
I shook my head slowly and a smile broke on my lips. This was a dream come true. I'd be a fool not to be happy if it were true. But the biggest problem still remained. I was divorced now and I signed the papers myself. How was I going to reach out to Alexander to tell him about the news? I doubted he would want to pick my calls.
"Call him, Grizzy. He has to know." Jax said as if reading my mind.
"What if he doesn't pick my calls?" I asked the most important question.
"Then I'll drive you down to his place. I'll do whatever it takes to help you get that information to him. He should be happy. It's his child, too and he has waited long for it, hasn't he?"
He was right. We had both waited long for it. And it surely wasn't too late to rethink his decision about divorcing me. After all, his claims of me cheating was only a misunderstanding. It was my job to make things right.
I followed Jax back into his car and before starting the engine, he waited for me to call Alexander. The phone rang and then he picked up. I felt my heart lift up with Joy. I didn't expect him to pick up so fast.
"Alex." I called out to him. "I have something to tell you. Please it's important and..."
"Hello, Grizelda." I was taken aback when I heard Lucy speak on the other end instead of my Alexander.
"Lucy." My voice carried the same amount of shock I felt. "Where's Alex? Isn't this his phone?"
I withdrew my phone from my ear and looked at the screen to confirm the number I called. I wasn't mistaken. It was Alexander's phone. So why was she the one answering his calls? I placed the phone back on my ear.
"Why are you with my husband's phone?" I asked her and I felt the rising anger in my voice.
I felt highly offended by it because even if he wasn't with his phone, she could have easily went to give it to him wherever he was, unless he didn't want to pick my call so he made her pick it instead.
"Husband? Did you say husband?" Lucy scoffed. "Alex isn't your husband anymore. He divorced you, remember? So put that in your little skull before you make the same mistake again."
Did the bitch just speak to me that way? Ever since Lucy had moved into the mansion with my husband and I, I always knew she didn't like me, but she didn't dare speak to me in any disrespectful manner. With what I remembered, I was very nice to her, making sure she had everything she needed in the house and was attended to whenever her necessary needs came up.
But now, I could tell she was finally showing her true colors to me because I was divorced. From her tone, I could tell she was mocking me and my anger increased all the more.
"I don't care if he's no longer my husband or not. I need to speak to him now, so please give him the phone. Its very important." I was losing my patience by the second.
"There's nothing you can say to my Alex to make him change his mind."
"Your Alex??" I knew I heard the words correctly.
"Oh, you didn't know?" She laughed, causing me to feel irritation in the pit of my belly. "We're getting married. In fact, I'm also pregnant for him."
"W-what... did you just say?" I felt like as if my heart was plunged right out of my chest.
"Yes, honey. You heard correctly. I'm pregnant for Alex. You thought he was impotent, but he's not. Turns out you were the barren one, after all."
It took me all the strength in me not to end the call right at that moment and stop myself from having a panic attack. But there was more I needed to know before I ended the call. How could she be pregnant for him suddenly after our divorce? Unless...
"Alex was cheating on me while we were still married? Both of you were sharing the same bed behind my back?"
"Not before we found out you were cheating on him first, of course. Therefore, we owe you no apology."
So he didn't even wait to confirm whether I was cheating or not before he started fucking his ex-girlfriend? I clenched my fists into tight balls and gritted my teeth.
"Grizzy? Is everything okay?" Jax asked with a worried tone next to me when he noticed my restlessness, but I showed him my palm to keep him from intervening.
I could understand clearly what was going on now. Divorcing me was only an excuse to get back with his ex girlfriend. He knew she was pregnant for him so he thought the best thing to do was to divorce me? I was holding onto a marriage that was already broken when I should have known sooner that the man that held my heart for so long, no longer cared about.
He must have found out that the doctors were wrong about his impotency and planned to elope with his ex girlfriend behind my back a long time, ago. I guess everyone's warnings to me were right after all.
I shut my eyes closed to let go of the last thread of attachment I had for him.
"Hello?" Lucy sounded on the phone.
I didn't answer and simply ended the call. Tears began to fall from my eyes and I laughed out of pity for myself. I couldn't count how many tears my eyes had to release in the past few days. I was sure all the tears were almost finished very soon.
"Grizzy." Jax tried to call my attention again and this time I answered by looking at him.
"Let's go, Jax. Take me home to my parents." I responded.
"What about Alex? What did he say?"
"I don't care about him, anymore. I've accepted the divorce."
"But what about the baby?"
"It's my baby, Jax. Not his. So please, let's just go. I'm tired of talking about him. I'm alone now and it's high time I accepted it. Please." I pleaded with desperation in my eyes and Jax finally nodded.
He started the engine and drove me home to where I was going to reunite with my parents. I and the baby growing inside of me.
-- Alexander --Alone in my office, I stared at my phone, wondering if I should text my ex wife or not. A few days had passed since she left me and it felt like a whole month, already. I couldn't seem to get her out of my mind. Was she really gone forever?Out of frustration, I dropped my phone on my office table and ran my fingers through my blonde hair. For the past few days, I'd been fighting with myself not to text or call her. I had my pride to feed. She was the one who left me. She was the one who cheated on me. Sleeping with other men behind my back for how long now?And how could I be so foolish to still be thinking about her? Why couldn't I just let her go? Why was I so unwilling to accept what life had given to me? I didn't want to believe that the woman I fell so deeply in love with on the very first day I set my eyes on her, could have never loved me the same way in the first place."Alex!" I jumped when I heard a voice in my office. I sat upright and adjusted myself immed
-- Alexander --Everyday, I found myself becoming more depressed despite all the success and riches that surrounded me. I felt incomplete without Grizelda by my side. I had searched for her for years and found nothing on her. Like she had disappeared completely just as she'd planned to from a heartless man like I was. I could never forgive myself for what I did to her and it ate me up everyday.I tried her phone number severally on different occasions, hoping it would go through one day, but I was only deceiving myself. She had probably changed her number. I wanted to see her just once and apologise for the pain I caused.My company grew bigger and bigger and I grew richer and richer. My mother had everything she ever wished for. All she had to do was snap her fingers and I would have everything being sent to the mansion I gifted her.Everyone was happy, even my new wife and her son, Spencer, who was now five years old. He looked nothing like me. I had blonde hair and hazel eyes, wher
-- Grizelda --I stopped by my favorite restaurant to have a meal alone. It was an expensive restaurant. It was such a great news that I could finally use my husband's money to pay for the food I ate.I missed the restaurant, anyways. I was always at home unlike before I got married. I had to quit my job just to become a housewife, but all for the sake of my husband. My Alexander. The one and only person that managed to keep my heart from being snatched from any other man. It was like I was under a trance. I loved him so much that I was willing to do anything for him.Recently, he broke the news to me that his ex girlfriend would be staying with us in our mansion for a while since she just got discharged from the hospital. I hadn't thought twice before I agreed to the decision. I had turned deaf ears to everyone, including my best friend, Jax Grey, who claimed that it wasn't normal that my husband was very willing to pay his ex girlfriend's medical bills, not to talk of wanting her to
-- Grizelda --"No, mom. I need to understand why she did this to me." Alexander said, countering his mother's statement."Did what?" I spoke up. I didn't understand what was going on and I was determined to.What was enough to make him want to divorce me?"I asked a question, Grizelda. Where are you coming from?"My heart constricted upon hearing my name out of his mouth. It was so long since he referred me by my name."I... I'm coming from my favorite restaurant." I dutifully replied."With whom?" He further asked and the question took me aback."With no one. I was alone.""Enough of this, Grizelda. Can you please stop lying to me? I've had enough of this already." Alexander covered his face with his hand and dragged it all the way down, getting me more confused than I already was."What do you mean? I'm telling you the truth, dear. I'm not lying-""And enough with the dear!" He thundered and finally fled off his seat. "How can you still be pretending to love me after cheating on me
-- Grizelda --I woke up to the feeling of someone trying to snatch my purse from me and I was right. Right in front of my eyes, an old man in rag clothes was determined to tug my purse out of my arms where I held it tightly. He hadn't realised that I'd worn it over my shoulders soon enough or he would have just opened the purse and taken whatever he wanted to take, rather than trying to snatch it out of my arms and pulling me awake instead."Hey! What do you think you're doing?!"He shook when he realised the person he was trying to steal from was awake and he immediately began to pull at the purse even harder this time."Give me the purse, you stupid lady! Give me the damn thing!"Just in time, I heard the sound of the police pulling up and I immediately felt relieved that I was going to get help from being mugged just at the right time."Help! This man is trying to steal my purse!"The old man heard the police had arrived and immediately, he stopped trying to snatch the purse from
-- Grizelda --After the two police officers were sacked without consideration and my purse was eventually returned to me, the higher ranked officer refused to stop begging us."Please, ma'am. I will make sure to have the real culprit arrested by officers who are more reliable in the job than those other two.""No, no. Nevermind about that." I said as I figured Alex could be the real culprit behind the theft of the one million dollars from an innocent man's account and pretended to be me. "I don't want you looking for the culprit anymore, you hear me?""What?" The man was shocked to hear my words. Even Jax was shocked as his eyes scanned me with refusal to believe that I meant what I said."I will pay back the million dollars if that's what it entails for you to stop looking for the culprit. Just forget about it, please.""Um, okay... okay ma'am, but I suggest you don't worry about that as well." I could see the sweat forming on the man's head as he addressed me with much respect. "It