“It's really very tasty. I hope you taught the cooks how to make it. I'll want to make it again soon.” Kate said arrogantly, but truthfully. “They already know how to make it, but whenever Adam wants it, I'll make sure I prepare it for him myself.” Anna said happily, looking at Adam who also seemed surprised and decided to try it. “It really is fabulous.” He said happily now, which eased the oppression in Anna's chest. Sarah stared at Anna, who was eating her soup with an enviable appetite. Not just her, but Adam and Kate, too. “Where did you get the recipe to make this dish?” Sarah asked, trying to sound nonchalant, but her voice ended up sounding like a growl. Anna stared at her, taking the last spoonful into her mouth. In a way, her sixth sense, ever since she found out that she had killed her mother, had been warning her to be careful with this woman. She felt a kind of unease around her that not even Kate could arouse. “My mother always made this dish. I think it'
“It doesn't matter anymore, Adam. But you know what puzzles me? You never asked me what I wanted to do. You never asked me to marry you. You never offered me any decent options. You didn't give me any freedom, not even to talk to you about my feelings and the thoughts that plague me. I'm not important to you, Adam. How you feel about me is offensive. Everyone can, at some point, talk to you honestly, except me. What could I expect from a relationship like that? Neither of us is happy.” “I've always tried to find out about your preferences, yes. But I didn't ask you. I didn't want you to think I was too interested in your life, and what you did, and you might interpret my interest as stalking and... Are you trying to tell me something?” “Nothing other than what I said. We're opposite souls, Adam. And if we stay together, we're going to get hurt.” “You don't have a choice, Anna.” Adam said and smiled. “How can you think of hurting me?” “I can deny what you deny me, Adam.”
Anna stared at her with contempt and let go of her hands, trying very hard to do so. “What does it matter to you if I'm pregnant or not? You no longer have any power over Adam, you're just a cockroach in my way. I didn't choose this life, Sarah. Unlike you, I didn't choose to be Adam's whore. My father was the one who put a price on me, to sell to the mafia boss, and he did it because he lived the last few years in despair over my mother's death, caused by a tramp, what's your excuse?” Sarah smiled. “I had my doubts...” She said thoughtfully. “But now you've confirmed my suspicions. You've discovered my history with your father... it doesn't matter anymore. Your mother and you are two dumb bitches. I don't know what you know, really, if you've only heard part of the story, but... I don't regret what I did. I should have met her before your father put you inside her. That way, I would have eliminated any possibility of this cursed blood remaining in the world. And now I'm face
Anna opened her eyes and a rectangular lamp radiated its white light, disturbing her. She heard someone say her name with exaggerated euphoria and then she heard another voice. She turned away to find out whose voice it was, and felt a lot of pain in the process. She met Jenna and Adam's eyes. Jenna looked at her with joy and Adam with a frown. “Oh, Anna! What a fright we've had. You're a fragile human. We talked it over and Adam agreed that you should take a room on the second floor to avoid any future accidents.” Jenna seemed happy and Anna was annoyed, because she didn't understand why. She couldn't remember how she ended up in that strange place. She closed her eyes, trying to erase Jenna's voice from her mind, which didn't allow her time to remember, and then all the events came flooding back. The memories came rushing back at the speed with which her anger, which she never thought she would feel towards a person, not at that intensity, seemed to give her energy and she
Adam soon returned with the doctor. They approached and the doctor winked at Anna, with complicity, and she returned it with a shy smile. Anna knew that he was acting like her friend, hiding Adam's pregnancy. She still couldn't understand how he didn't get suspicious, because whenever she looked, she could clearly see her pregnant belly. “Are you feeling any pain?” The doctor asked, staring at Anna as if to warn her. She knew she couldn't take medication unnecessarily, and he was worried that her lies could put the baby's health at risk - after all, she was only a human carrying a wolf cub in her womb. “I felt a slight pain in my head, but it's gone now.” “Good girl. I'm going to examine your eyes. Can you follow the pen, please?” The doctor said as Anna obeyed, and looked at the faint glow of the penlight. He seemed satisfied and put the stethoscope to his ear to listen to Anna's heart. As soon as he had finished examining her, he looked up with his sympathetic smile. “I'm
Anna closed her eyes. She felt like the luckiest person in the world. She had to run far away, and she had no allies to help her. She hoped no one had noticed that inside the shorts she was wearing, there was a lining with the money. She sewed linings into all her clothes, and every time she changed, she put in the money she had taken from the safe, so that she could seize the first opportunity to escape. And that moment came. She would never have been able to escape if she had been in the mansion, but there... Adam said it was a clinic on the side of the road... She knew that if Adam found her, he would kill her before she had finished blinking. She had a card that Adam had given her to spend as she pleased, which was also in the pocket of the shorts she was wearing when she was pushed. But she wasn't an idiot. Adam knew every store that swiped the card. She couldn't use it, because unfortunately it would be like a trail for him to follow and find her. However, he already had a pl
As soon as Anna heard Adam's footsteps moving away down the corridor, she quickly locked the room. She put on her clothes, checked to see if the money was still in the lining of her shorts, and breathed a sigh of relief when she found all the money there. She went to the window and smiled with satisfaction. They were on the second floor. She imagined they would make sure she stayed away from the stairs. She opened the window slowly, afraid of making a noise, and jumped out. Adam didn't lie. They were on the side of the road. She went to the front of the hospital and recognized Adam's men. She needed to escape that way. Behind the hospital was a high wall that she would be unable to climb. She began to walk past them, hiding between the cars. As she did so, she tried to open their doors. She managed to open one of them. She got in and hid behind the back seats, and waited anxiously. If they discovered her escape, Adam would search every corner and every car. She needed to make su
Anna finished her broth and looked at the waitress. “That's not going to happen to me.” She said, put the money for the broth on the table and stood up. “I'm sorry it happened to you. If one day, I come back here after my son is born, I'll help you get your son back. I know the restaurant doesn't give away cereal bars.” Anna said, as after a week of going there, the waitress started to leave the cereal bar, which helped sustain her and her baby, and Anna walked towards the entrance of the restaurant, when she felt a liquid running down her legs. She stopped. Had something happened to her baby? She felt the waitress approach her. “Are you all right?” She asked worriedly. “I think I peed, but it was strange, because the urine just came out.” The waitress put her hand over her mouth. “Your sac has ruptured. Your baby's coming!” Anna felt the first wave of pain after she said those words, and she cringed, clutching her belly. The wave passed, and she looked at the waitr