Chapter 300

The woman's return now shouldn't mean that she cared. If she had ulterior motives, then Hailey would show her that she was too strong to be hurt twice by the same person.

With that in mind, Hailey hardened her heart before the dam of her emotions had a chance of breaking free. She dried her tears and they no longer flowed. And she took in a few deep breaths to relax her muscles.

She shouldn't cry for her. She wasn't worthy of that.

She would be hurting herself as well as her baby if she kept on crying and wasting her emotions on the wrong people. She had let her baby down countless times by doing that. She was never going to let that repeat itself.

Right now, she had to prioritize her baby above everything else. She'd be the most unreliable mother if she kept letting her baby down. She lowered her head to her bump and cuddled it. She wasn't an unreliable mother. She would never be. She'd do anything for her baby no matter what it took. And she was never going to abandon her baby d