All Chapters of A Long Awaited Love: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

I was taken to the hospital in an ambulance for a C-section. My mother, Rose Tate, and my sister, Sasha Gray, went with me.Fortunately, Sasha was an accomplished doctor. I'd been in the middle of administering an IV drip for one of the patients at our family's clinic when I suddenly felt something warm trickle down my legs. Then, Sasha pinned me to one of the patient beds and used a pillow to elevate the lower part of my body.My pants were already drenched by then. As for my husband… I didn't have one. I was a single mother who'd gotten pregnant out of wedlock.Unexpectedly, the anesthesiologist during my C-section was my ex-boyfriend with whom I'd called things off eight months ago and the father of my child. If I'd known this would happen, I would've negotiated with my baby and asked him not to be in such a hurry to leave the womb. He was only 38 weeks along, after all.I had an ultrasound done upon arriving at the hospital. My baby wasn't yet in the right position to be born,

My family moved to a smaller two-room apartment in the suburbs. Mom and Dad were no longer busy all the time. Instead, they opened a small clinic.It was only after growing up that I realized the change had come because Dad's business had failed, and we couldn't afford to live there anymore.The envelope's contents pointed to one thing—Ian's father, James Sadler, had caused all this. I couldn't imagine how Mom and Dad would react if I were to bring Ian home one day and introduce him as James' son.I knew nothing about trickery in the business world, but years of reading romance novels taught me that the Sadlers were my parents' sworn enemies.My head spun when I got up from the couch, probably because I'd been seated for too long. My abdomen hurt a little, too. I checked the date and realized my period was coming soon.Ian was away from home; I didn't know when he would return.I packed my things and hired a moving company to send them and me home. Once I arrived home, I lazed ar

"I'll go to your ward," Ian said."No, don't—" He hung up on me before I could finish.The following day, I got into the car the sanitorium had sent to pick me up. Ian watched me the whole time. My family were all there with me; I didn't want them to notice anything.Before getting into the car, Ian stopped me and held out his phone. "Could you give me your new number, DeeDee? I've tried calling you using different numbers over the past eight months, but you've never responded."After unilaterally announcing our breakup, I hadn't just blocked him everywhere. I'd even changed my number. Now that he was asking for my new one, I didn't hesitate to give it to him. The first thing I did after we exchanged numbers was to transfer the cost of the sanitorium to him.Whatever bad blood was between Dad and James had to be resolved themselves—I just didn't want to owe Ian."Don't bother paying me for the sanitorium. I won't take the money." He transferred the money back to me, his attitude

Mom's and Dad's expressions shifted at Hailey's words. I knew they wouldn't believe her, but there was no denying I'd had Neo out of wedlock."What's going on here, DeeDee?" Dad turned to me, looking grim. He was open-minded, but I knew he would break my legs if I'd indeed ruined someone else's relationship."Ian and I… We dated for two years. He never mentioned anything about a fiancée." There was a dull ache in my chest, and I felt like I couldn't breathe. I gasped for breath as tears streamed down my face.It seemed having a child had truly addled my brain. I couldn't think about anything other than Hailey being Ian's fiancée. I couldn't seem to remember how Ian and I had met and fallen in love. Without even realizing it, I tightened my grip on Neo.Mom took him from me when he started crying because he felt smothered. When Sasha saw that I couldn't speak, she brought me my phone and asked, "Do you want to call Dr. Sadler to verify this?"I curled up on the couch and nodded vig

"How did you learn about this, Keith?" I asked."After being reunited with Hailey, she would often come to me after getting drunk. Once, she showed me a bunch of documents, telling me she'd forged them flawlessly. She also said the Sadler family would one day be ruined," Keith said.That wasn't the best part. Thanks to Hailey often getting drunk, Keith had obtained plenty of evidence showing that she'd stolen the Sadler family's trade secrets.This was where the coincidence kicked in. The documents Hailey had shown Keith were the ones Connie had given me, which I'd later given to Ian. When Keith had dropped by the Sadler residence to thank Ian for helping him locate his parents, he'd seen the documents on the table."I was hesitant at the time but knew this would forever weigh on my conscience if I'd kept silent. I had to tell them what I knew," Keith concluded.After hearing the complete truth, I couldn't help lamenting, "It turns out Connie and Hailey pulled a fast one on all of