Two weeks pregnant

Chapter 5

The next day at Max's mansion... 

The early morning sunlight penetrates the room through the window, and Ariel slowly tilts her head to see that it's morning already. She sighs briefly and runs her fingers through her messy hair, groaning tiredly. Recalling the incident of the previous night, a smile lace up her lips. She has never felt so good all her life, and she enjoyed every bit of it yesterday. 

Looking to the side of the bed, she sighs briefly as an empty space welcomes her. Maybe if he were to be her boyfriend or husband, he would've been by her side and sleeping peacefully, and maybe she may have all the time to stare at his handsome face, but too bad that he can never be hers. He belongs to someone else. 

Realizing that she has to go to the hospital to get the test result, she quickly stands up from the bed and drags herself into the bathroom, while holding the duvet to her naked body. Her vaginal feel sore after the sex, but she can still manage to walk. 

After having a bath which lasted for a couple of minutes, she strides back into the room and gets dressed, leaving her room afterward. Turns out that both Alicia and Max had gone to work, so she's only here with the maid, Lisa. 

Standing at the roadside a few minutes later, she flags down a cab that takes her to the hospital. As the cab drives down the road, she can't help the many questions that keep parading on her mind. Her life isn't as smooth as she has planned it. Just nine years ago when she was just ten, she always imagined how her life will be. She planned that she'll get into college as soon as she graduates from high school, she wanted to become so successful, and own a company in her name as the CEO, and finally put a smile on her hard-working mom's face, but wishes were never horses, so it may never come true for her. 

"We're here," The cab man's voice pulls her back to reality, and she hops out of the car. After she pays the cab man, she walks over to the entrance door of the hospital and makes her way into the lobby. It's still early in the morning, but the hospital is already crowded with many people. 

"Excuse me. I'm here to see the doctor," She walks over to the receptionist where a young lady is standing behind the counter and scribbling down something on a paper. 

"Do you have an appointment with him?" The young lady asks as she raises her gaze to look at Ariel while having a questioning look on her face. 

"Yes. He asked me to come see him today," Ariel replies, and the lady nods her head. 

"You should wait for him a few minutes. The doctor is busy now," The lady points to a chair for her to sit on while waiting for the doctor. 

"Thank you," She finally walks over to the long bench and sits carefully on it. 

A few minutes later, one of the nurses finally came to call her attention, and she went to the doctor's office. 

Stopping in front of the doctor's office, she takes a deep breath before she pushes the door open, and walks in. 

"Oh, you're here? Please sit," The doctor smiles at her politely, as he gestures for her to sit on the chair across from him. 

"Thank you, doc," She sits on the chair. 

"The result is out..." She raises her gaze to look at the doctor, with curiosity written all over her. 

"I don't know why you haven't shown any sign yet. You're two weeks pregnant," the doctor finally drops the news as he searches the heap of files on his desk, until he gets to her own, and picks it up. He hands it over to her. 

"Thank you," She smiles at him forcefully, as she takes the file from him, and without bothering to open it, she stands up and ambles out of the office, closing the door gently behind her. 

Holding the brown envelope tightly in her hand, tears drop from her eyes as she drags her feet to the exit door. She feels so empty and has no idea what to think. She tries to understand her emotions, but it's just difficult to do it. What will become of her now that she's pregnant? 

Dragging her feet out of the hospital, she collided with someone and staggers back. 

"Are you OK, miss?" The sweet masculine voice disrupts her thoughts, and she slowly raises her gaze to look at the handsome man standing in front of her. Although his face is blurred out, but she can still see how handsome and charming he looks. This is obviously not Max, but he looks a bit like him. 

"Hmm..." She nods her head and without waiting to hear another word from the man, she drags her feet past him and heads to the side of the road to take a cab home. 

Standing at the side of the road for ten minutes without any hope of getting a cab, she drags her feet down the road until she is finally able to spot a cab, and stops it. 

The drive to the house was filled with sadness and emptiness as she kept asking herself many questions that she couldn't come up with answers to. 

Twenty minutes later, the cab hauls over in front of the mansion, and she hops out of the cab. She pays the cabby, before walking her way to the building. 

She climbs the staircase lazily once she gets to the living room, and heads straight to her room. Crashing her back against the wall as soon as she walks into her room, tears stream down her cheeks as she tightens her grip around the brown envelope. 

'We have a little problem making babies, so you're going to help us out. You belong to us now, so you can't say no to us. Your parents already gave their consent' recalling Alicia's words, her heart wrenches in pain. Is this how she's going to live for the rest of her life? Isn't she ever going to do anything with her life except being their baby breeder?

Finally opening the brown envelope, she brings out the white paper and glances through it, but her eyes almost pop out of their sockets when she sees the bearer of the result. It has Alicia's name on it..