Melanie panicked and stopped thinking for a moment. Although she was hesitant to accept the baby, she had never thought the baby might take the initiative to leave her instead. She had the power to decide all along. However, this matter had gotten out of her control.She returned to her senses after hearing some noises outside. She decided to put the matter aside and quickly opened the shower’s faucet to wash the blood stains off the ground and rinsed herself.She wiped herself dry and observed that there were no more blood stains. She felt relieved. Since that had happened, Melanie dared not stay there any longer. She hurriedly exited the bathroom and got dressed. She could not wait to leave that place.Frank heard her and noticed she was about to open the room door. He looked at Melanie and frowned, “Did I say you could leave?”“I’m sorry, Frank. I have an urgent matter to tend to right now.” Melanie explained in a hurry.“Of course, you can leave, but what about your promise?”
“If you still want this baby, you cannot be intimate anymore. It’s advisable to be hospitalized to prevent miscarriage.”The doctor held the reports and said objectively, “If you don’t want it, I recommend you to perform surgery immediately. The longer you drag it, the worse your health will be.”“Does being intimate have such severe consequences?” Melanie asked. Although she could refuse to be intimate with Nathaniel, she could not refuse Frank. Even if she rejected him once or twice, it was impossible to keep doing so.This meant that she could do nothing for the next ten months except lie down on the bed to protect the baby until it was born. What about after that? She would end up a mediocre housewife who would be busy around her husband and children her whole life. She knew that Nathaniel could not give her a wealthy lady’s life. She wanted to change her fate. However, it was a crucial time, and she was determined to win the year-end competition.Her popularity would inevita
Melanie thought she needed to wait for the doctor to arrange a time for her surgery. However, the doctor prescribed her some medicine instead.She was puzzled as she held the prescription list. “Didn’t you say that medicine isn’t suitable? Why’d you still prescribe me medicine?”“You have some inflammation, and this is the medicine for it. It needs to be treated before the surgery.” After a brief pause, the doctor advised her, “You must avoid s*x for some time. Your condition is bad. If this continues, it will affect your uterus.”The doctor kept reminding her of what she needed to be mindful of, but she stopped paying attention. She knew her body was not in good condition, but she had not expected it to be this bad. She felt ashamed when she recalled the doctor’s gaze. Fortunately, no one recognized her.She went home and took medicine with some water. After she carefully kept the prescription in the innermost layer of her bag, she lay down to rest. Fortunately, Nathaniel was busy
“Actually, the sample was successful, but our product failed during the last test. The final result was just unpresentable. We'd lose if we used this as our competitive product.” He might as well tell Melanie the truth because he could not disguise it. “What do you mean by unpresentable? How could this be? This formula could not be wrong. I got it from…” She realized what she was saying as soon as the words left her mouth and promptly stopped talking. Nathaniel stared at her, “From where?” “F-From way back. I’ve had this formula for a long time, and I’ve done countless tests on it. I believe this formula has no problem at all!” Though she sounded determined, she was also unsure. Frank gave her the formula, and Melanie had no reason to doubt him, given his authority and expertise. She thought everything he gave her was perfect. However, her belief in him faltered after his formula failed lab testing. She could not let Nathaniel know, so she had to act confident in her f
Melanie had not thought of how to tell Nathaniel about the abortion even though she had decided she did not want the baby. This issue with the formula came at the right time. It allowed her to stage her abortion as a miscarriage and make Nathaniel feel sorry about it too. Before that, she needed to see Frank. She met him at a cafe as she felt safer meeting him in public. Frank was late and looked horrible, his eye bags were huge, but at least he made it. Since Melanie had somewhat of an idea what kind of person he was, he always looked like a man about to die from sickness. However, he could only die after she finished using him. “Didn’t you say you were busy?” He questioned as he dropped several sugar cubes into his coffee, stopping after the sixth cube and stirring with his teaspoon. “Miss me already?” Frank teased while taking a huge sip of coffee and heaving a sigh of satisfaction after. Melanie sat there staring at him until he was done talking. “Was there anything
“No! There are too many people at the lab, and they’ll see you. Even if the perfume is a success and I use it to enter the competition, the organizing committee might use our relationship as an excuse to disqualify me,” Melanie said as she frowned.She moaned in frustration and asked, “Can’t you just try to fix it without following me into the lab? Why don’t I bring those failed samples for you to look at?”Frank nodded, “Sure, I can do that. However, the results might not be optimal. Either I’ll be able to figure out what’s wrong in one go, or this might take longer, maybe more than ten tries.”This was going nowhere as if Melanie got caught in an endless loop. If she had rejected Frank’s offer to come with her to the lab, he might not be able to figure out what was wrong. Then the perfume would fail, and Melanie could not use it to participate in the competition.On the other hand, if she allowed Frank into the lab without caring about Nathaniel’s feelings, she might also get dis
Lily slept deeply. It was not because she had a tiring day in the lab but because…She was experimenting in a specific field when she discovered that men and women naturally had different endurance in certain areas. For example, Alexander had woken up early to go to the company for a meeting.Lily was not even sure what time he had left. Vaguely, she remembered that just before he left, he had placed a kiss on her forehead. She could not remember much before that.She fished around with her fingers and found her vibrating cell phone. She held it up to her ear. “Hello?”“Lily, it’s me.” It was Olivia’s voice, and she sounded energetic.“Huh, it’s still so early. Don’t you want more rest?” Lily said, half-awaked. She tossed around but did not feel like moving at all.“Early?” Olivia looked at the time. “It’s about to be six o’clock. How is that early?”“Six o’clock? Six o’clock isn’t early?” Lily’s brain was still exhausted. She was about to hang up the phone.“Lily, it’s six o’c
Lily thought of what had happened when they came home last night. What happened was R-rated!Discuss? What discussion? She certainly was not accessible enough for that. Where would they find time, let alone the chance?Lily looked at her reflection in the mirror and saw the apparent dark circles around her neck. She felt like all the bones in her body had been removed and put together again. It was as if there was a clear word on her face: exhausted.“Lily? Lily, are you still listening?” Lily did not respond, not even a grunt, so Olivia thought she had hung up the phone.“Uh, I’m here. Keep talking,” Lily answered after gurgling and spitting out the foam in her mouth.“I have nothing much to say. I just want to know if you guys know where we’re going. I know I have no right to ask, but I’m quite excited. It’s been a while since I’ve had some fun.”She had been stuck in the lab all day and wanted to go out for fun. Yet she did not have the time or money, so this was a rare oppor