Chapter Five

-- 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.