Chapter 1

Seven months pregnant

This made her face blush. She wished she could crawl into a hole as she avoid the man’s cold, marble-like skin. Her body eventually making her give up resistance. The pain was accompanied by an unknown pleasure slowly rising bit by bit like a firework display going off in her mind, making her feel like a lone boat sailing in a sea of fire.

The emotions mapping a crescendo, she found it hard to resist herself.

“Hey, wake up. It is freezing here. You’ll catch a cold”

The pressure on her shoulders awoke her abruptly. Her sdisoriented gaze met with a concerned pair of eyes. It was one of her fellow passengers. In an instant, her guilty conscience made her face blush. She wished she could crawl into a hole as she avoided the man’s gaze.

It had been eight weeks since she had visited her doctor for a routine checkup, and that’s when she was made aware of her predicament.

“How can you not know that you were pregnant?” She still could hear the doctor’s words ringing in her like it was yesterday.

“You are almost 7 weeks pregnant now. Do you intend to inform the father of the baby?” the nurse had asked with a concerned look while the doctor was busy printing her reports.

“When the time comes, yes, I will”

Being pregnant did not come out as a shock for her earlier, but something about this felt right. It felt good. Maybe because the baby was Shayne’s.

Shayne Scott had been the man of Natalie’s dream. It felt good because the baby was Shayne’s. Shayne Scott had been the man of Natalie’s dreams since childhood , and she would do anything to spend her life with him. For Shayne’s sake , Natalie had decided to let go of her dream pursuing a career in acting . she started preparing for SATs to be in the same university in the same university as the same. She had been working day and night to ace test. Missing out on her drama classes.

Natalie’s mind was flooded with at least a thousand thoughts right now. “I cannot wait to finally tell him the news, what will he say? How will he react? Will he take me into his arms after this? What will I do? How will we manage?”

On her way to Shayne’s house, Natalie had been overcome by feelings. She had waited for months to tell Shayne and today was the day she would finally break the news to him. Shayne had been busy with university, but now that he was in town, Natalie couldn’t wait anymore.

Damn. Although it has already been such a long time after that drunken night, Shayne kept appearing in her dreams from time to time. Thanks to being drunk to the point of unconsciousness, she did not have much memory from that night. Otherwise, she would not know how to face Shayne.

“Daddy, come here! Look her! It’s an airplane!” a child pointing out of the window in the adjacent seat broke Natalie’s train of thoughts. She could not help but adore the father-son duo looking at each other lovingly.

“I am sure Shayne will be a really good father, he will love both of us. What do you think my little munchkin?” Natalie started talking to her belly caressing her cute baby bump.

It was almost noon when she reached her destination. After gulping down an entire bottle of water, Natalie started walking down to the main highway which was hardly a few minutes from the station. She wanted to give Shayne a surprise. Natalie finally reached Scott’s residence. Her finger lingered on the nameplate written on a golden plate, ‘The Scotts’. She was certain that from this moment, her life would change forever.

Natalie pressed the doorbell waiting for Shayne to open and smile at her, when she saw something that sent chills down her spine.

A beautiful girl standing at the door. She was wearing a red dress, her one hand holding the door knob as she was frantically trying to put something into her bag with the other. Wait, was that Shayne’s favorite blue t-shirt? The one Natalie had gifted him on his birthday?

The girl flipped her long wavy hair the marks Shayne had given it to her. Her loose wavy hair hung around her shoulders.

“Yes, may I help you?” the girl asked politely.

“Nora, what the fuck are you doing here? Where is Shayne?”

“Why? Do you want to talk to him?”

“Yes…” Natalie wanted to erase this one scene from her head.

“But what do you want to talk to him about? That baby in your womb?”

Nora’s words punched Natalie right in her face. She was trying to look for answers. What was her sister doing at Shayne’s house? What was she doing with his shirt that Natalie had gifted him, and most importantly, where is Shayne?

“Before you start dreaming, let me tell you, bitch, that baby is not Shayne’s,” Nora said, piercing a hole in Natalie’s heart, as if what she was going through wasn’t enough.

“Nora, are you crazy?” Nora Brown looked at her, laughing with arms crossed as if standing at a catwalk. She swayed as she walked until she stood in front of Natalie.

“What? Scared I’ll kill the bastard in your stomach?”

Natalie subconsciously protected her abdomen, taking a step back, she looked at Nora wearily, “Nora, don’t you go too far.”

Despite knowing that Nora had always been at loggerheads with her, Natalie had not thought she could speak such vicious words .

“Going too far? You are the one who went too far. After getting drunk and doing it with some wild man and getting pregnant, then trying to make Shayne become the father. But Natalie, aren’t you a little mean, bitch?”

Natalie froze, “What are you even saying?”

“Hey, don’t tell me you really believe the man who slept with you that night was Shayne,” Nora laughed before leaning back, “Saying that you grew up with Shayne, with every other sentence, saying that you were childhood sweethearts and you don’t even know that his fingers are like?”

Natalie’s face grew pale as she listened. Despite standing under intense sunlight, her whole body felt cold. Yes, that man from the night, she had only thought, Shayne was fitter than she imagined after growing up. Now with Nora’s malicious reminder, she then suddenly recalled that, other than the body, the man from that night was indeed very different from Shayne. Natalie’s entire world came crushing down. She wanted to scream and cry her heart out .

Nora continued, “Let me tell you the whole story, that night, you drunk the wine that I added a little something to, and out of good will, I found two brownie men for you so that you could fully satisfy your desire. Who knew that you would be so unsensible? You actually entered some wild man’s room,” Nora’s tone was full of disgust, and she said, “Shayne is too kind-hearted. He was afraid that you won’t be able to accept the truth, so he said it was him that night.”

“You…” Natalie was trembling with anger listening to the word that she said, Natalie could no longer hold back and grabbed Nora’s wrist. “Why would you do that to me? Why? Haven’t you harmed me enough?”

“What’s going on?” Natalie heard his voice.

“Shayne?”