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Chapter 26
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2024-10-29 19:42:56I did not tell my mom about my fight with Max. When Clara was packing up to go to him I told her that he was a bit busy and wondered if she was okay with just hanging with me for a while. She seemed relieved, only adding to my suspicions that they did not even treat her properly when she was there. This had to be for the best.
I was tired of it all. I had to juggle taking
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It took me a full week to recover to at least a semi-normal state after hearing the baby’s heartbeat. I kept up appearances to everyone around me, I said my professional ‘see you later’ to Robert, I brought Clara to school and my mom to rehab, but on the inside, I was nothing short of a natural disaster.I was getting increasingly more freaked out t
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I did what any sane and well-functioning adult would do after going through some upsetting events, I bunkered up and hid myself away from the world.I convinced myself that this was better for me and the baby, I had been worrying about being way too stressed all the time, but even I couldn’t deny that this was just me being a coward. I did not want to face Kiara and
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I stared at myself in the bathroom mirror. I had showered so quickly that there wasn’t even any fog on the mirror. I was late, I knew I needed to get a move on, but this was the first time I had properly seen it.A small curve.
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I felt a soft breeze on my face, accompanied by a rattling sound every few seconds. Soft snores were coming from right beside me, accompanied by the occasional incoherent talking noises. Was it the baby?I had dreamed about him, soft black hair and big blue eyes. He looked more like Robert than he looked like me. It was probably for the best. He could never know I was his
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There was another side effect to the press publishing those pictures. Within hours I went from ‘mystery woman’ to ‘Dalia Adler’, so not only my friends and family knew, but the entire city.They found my Instagram also, and my amount of followers skyrocketed. I was nowhere near Kiara or Robert, but I was already getting Dm’s from shady c
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It felt like I hadn’t left my apartment in years. Things had been bearable before when I could just watch Netflix or read a book in utter silence, but now that my mom and I were fighting and the whole world was trying to contact me, hiding away became impossible.I promised Kiara that I would explain things to her the next time we meet up, so that would at least give me some time to think things through. I didn’t respond to Max nor to Lian, I didn’t feel like I owed them an explanation. But now there was another person who I needed to explain myself too also.
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I headed out just a bit after dinner. I left Clara in the care of my mom and headed down to the car. Apparently, no one had told the driver that Robert didn’t want to see me, so he responded the same as usual when I texted him the address.I don’t know if they told Robert whenever I was coming over, or if he received a notification when we passed his gate. I kept a wandering eye on my phone screen throughout the car ride, though I already knew that I would ‘accidentally’ not see it if he called or texted me on the way over. Oops.
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I stared up at the grey ceiling. And then I stared some more. The pain was pounding through my body and it felt like it had been months since I had last been able to rest comfortably. Any movement made it worse, laying still did nothing to fix it. I just wanted it all to be over already, nothing could cheer me up anymore. Robert placed a kiss on my lips, but I wanted to slap him. It was his fault I was in this position anyway. If he hadn’t wanted a baby, then I wouldn’t be pregnant, then I wouldn’t be in this much pain. It was all his fault, not mine. “Doctor Ward is coming this afternoon.” Robert said when I didn’t respond much to his kiss. It had been a few days since Mr Price’s visit and Mahlia had confirmed that the FBI case against Robert
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