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002: You are not the father
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2024-10-29 19:42:56Autumn opens her eyes at the hospital. She heard the familiar sobs that could only belong to Iris. She had a look around just to spot Iris bawling her eyes out. She slowly sits upright as Iris notices Autumn had just awaken.
"Autumn, how could you. Why couldn't you wait till after the wedding to reveal that you're pregnant?" Iris sobbed even harder. Autumn couldn't understand how her sister could not have a single compassion. She couldn't even care that her sister was stripped to a stretcher? She couldn't even imagine that she might had lost her life. "Abort it Autumn." Iris begs. Autumn furrows her brows and without thinking she slaps Iris. She didn't know when her hand had a mind of it's own, or maybe she's aware that's why she didn't feel any ounce of guilt. Realizing what she had done she immediately apologizes. "I'm sorry Iris, my hand slipped." Autumn turns her gaze to the other side of the hospital, Iris in shock held her cheek. She was filled with rage. She wondered when Did her sister start growing balls to commit such an act of it wasn't revealed that she was pregnant she would have returned the favor. The doors burst open revealing Ivan. Autumn felt as if time had stopped she froze even more at his icy stares. He walks over to Autumn who has her palms over her cheek. Iris looked away avoiding Ivan's gaze. "Did you slap her?" Ivan asked, spitting venomously. Autumn didn't move, for a moment she felt invincible, not giving Ivan any reaction until her face was greeted with a slap from Ivan. Her ears rang and although it was worse than the one her father gave her, she still manage to get a hold of her senses. Even at that, it couldn't stop her tears sliding down her cheek. "Just because you're pregnant you think you're entitled to touch my wife?" Ivan yells as Autumn eyes went bloodshot red. "I am your wife too Ivan." Autumn yelled in her defense. "When will you accept you were just a substitute. I only married you at my father's whim. Now that he's dead I see no reason why I should be with you." He paused fixing his gaze at her flat tummy and then at her crocodile tears. "Besides how can I tell that child is even mine. I'm sure it belongs to another bastard." Autumn was shocked, how could Ivan say such a thing. "You're the only man I've slept with Ivan, what you're spewing is ridiculous." Autumn spits back, she couldn't handle what he was saying anymore, it was breaking her heart. "Are you calling me a liar?" He raised his hand again but refrains when Iris grabbed on to his wrist. "Ivan, she's pregnant. You will stress the baby." Iris pouted as Ivan dearly held her gaze. "Why should I care about the bastard, it's not even mine." Ivan said as Iris pleaded with him. "Even though, the poor child should not suffer for what the mother did. Instead why don't you divorce her from having a affair?" Iris suggested. It was ironic really, Autumn had spent twelve years with Ivan as he disrespected her countless of times and have an affair with her own sister. She forgave him all those times and just when he heard blatant rumors of her affair he just couldn't stand it. "I did not have an affair, this is your child Ivan. I swear on my life." Autumn mutters as Iris pulls Ivan away from Autumn and whispers something into his ear. Ivan returns to Autumn, he clears his throat. "I'll have the doctor run a test, if it's mine I'll let you keep your title as my wife but if it isn't mine, our marriage will come to an end." Autumn nodded, she was confident she will be right. After all the last time she had sex with Ivan was solid alibi that it was his. The doctor conducted the test and immediately the results came back. Autumn's parents had heard about the reveal, they showed up to hear who owned the child. The doctor walks in with the results as he reads it out loud. "Mr Ivan, I'm sorry to say but you are not the father."Related chapters
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Ivan could not pinpoint why he was disappointed. He was sure the child wasn't his but he could not understand why he wished it was. He turns to Autumn who laid in shock and immediately his stomach turned. Autumn had finally brainwashed him that he could not help but extend pity towards her. He hated himself for falling for her traps and hated her more for making him feel such a way. His eyes widened as he glared at the scornful woman in front of him. "Our marriage ends today, I'll have my lawyers send you the divorce papers." He furiously storms out, followed by the doctor and then Iris. Autumn was left stunned with her parents, she could not understand how the results were wrong. She turned to them with teary eyes, her throat was burning and her head was aching as she spoke. "Mom, Dad, believe me, the baby is Ivan's." She cried hoping her parents would take her side but they looked at her in disgust. "Are you that attention starved that you pulled a stunt like this? After all
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Ivan immediately embraces Iris in his arms. Autumn ought to raise her voice but she felt a lump against her throat.Her eyes met with the doctor, he scornfully glances at Ivan, she could tell he was in love with Iris. "I love you so much." Ivan tells Iris and that finally broke Autumn. A tear stream down her sockets.Autumn could recall by memory how many times she had begged this man to love her. She always thought he was incapable of saying it to her or any other woman. How deluded she really was, Ivan was never incapable of ever saying it, he just didn't care to say it to her. He did not love her and just finally coming to terms to it was painful, it was as if Ivan had slapped her in the face. Why did she even fall in love with this man? Why had she agree to marry him. If only she didn't spend that drunken night with him she wouldn't be in this situation. "Ivan." Autumn calls him, he turns his back sealing his once tender gaze with an icy stare."What are you still doing here? Y
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Autumn puts her phone down. She put her phone on silent to ignore Ivan's calls. She was shocked he even called her in the first place it's something he has never done in her past life. She continued looking around the mansion her father in-law got for her and Ivan. She looked at the floor she laid on when she died. "Was this a second chance?" She gasps to herself. So she did really die. And somehow she went back three years in the past. Then her mind went back to the person who instigated her death, Iris. Her hands went straight to her stomach. The cold empty void then overwhelmed her, she had lost her baby in her past life. Once again anger washed over her and a single tear stream down her cheek. "Miss Autumn, your lunch is ready." she suddenly got flashbacks from Felicity poisoning me. Autumn froze, her face went white and her cheeks blushed, filling a bit of color in her face. Her heart raced as she my voice trembled. "Miss Autumn are you okay?" The maid asked. Autumn looked o
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Ivan's eyes widened, his face was written shocked all over it, his palm ball into a fist as anger surge through him."Who is he?" He asked in a calm voice."Who is the fucking bastard you're opening your legs to." Autumn wasn't shocked by the slightest, this was the same man who accused her of an affair and didn't believe their child was theirs.Autumn tried to turn away, but Ivan's grip was unyielding. He grasped her arm, his fingers digging into her skin as he forced her to face him. His eyes, once warm and loving, now burned with a desperate intensity."Baby, please," he whispered, his voice laced with a hint of desperation.Autumn's eyes widened in shock, but her primary focus was on escaping Ivan's suffocating hold. She tried to wriggle free, but he refused to release her."I-I'm sorry, Autumn," Ivan stammered, his words tumbling out in a rush. "Please, give me another chance. You don't need to lie to me about your affair."Autumn's gaze narrowed, her eyes squinting as if asking
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