Novels by Pearl

The phone rang at exactly 8:13AM in the morning.Eva Hart stared at the screen.Westbridge Fertility Clinic.Her heart immediately began pounding.For several seconds, she simply looked at it.Then she answered."Hello?""Good morning, Miss Hart. This is Westbridge Fertility Clinic. We wanted to inform you that everything is ready should you decide to proceed."Eva swallowed.Suddenly, the room felt small.Too quiet very quiet this was what she wanted. Why was she holding back now .The decision she had been thinking about for weeks was no longer a distant possibility.It was here,waiting for her."Miss Hart?"Eva closed her eyes."Can I call you back?""Of course."The call ended.She sat on the edge of her hotel bed for a long time. Her thoughts raced,What if this was a mistake?What if she failed?What if she regretted it?.Eva what's with the what if,she thought to herself.Then another memory surfaced.Daniel's cruel voice.Maybe because you can't give me children.Eva's eyes hardened.No.

Sleep refused to come.Eva Hart tossed and turned beneath the thin hotel blanket before finally giving up.The digital clock on the bedside table read 2:47 AM.With a frustrated sigh, she sat up and reached for her laptop.The room was dark except for the soft glow of the screen.For several moments, she simply stared at the search bar.Then she typed the words she hadn't stopped thinking about since her therapy session.Artificial insemination.Dozens of articles appeared.Successrates,Costs,Procedures.Donor profiles,Fertility clinics.Eva clicked one article after another.Hours passed without her noticing.For the first time in weeks, she wasn't thinking about Daniel.She wasn't thinking about Evelyn.She wasn't replaying the betrayal over and over in her head.Instead, she was imagining something else.A future, small apartment,tiny crib, child laughing,a child calling her Mom.The thought warmed her chest.By the time she closed her laptop, the sun was beginning to rise.And for the fir

The first thing Eva Hart did after waking up was check her bank account.The second thing she did was cry she felt totally helpless. Not because the balance was low.Not because she had spent three nights living in a hotel.But because this had become her reality.Three days ago, she had a fiancé, a home, and a future.Now she had none of those things.The hotel room felt smaller than ever.The pale cream walls seemed to close in around her as tears blurred her vision.For several minutes, she stared at the ceiling.Then she forced herself to sit up,no one was coming to save her.No one was going to fix her life.She had to do it herself.Just like she always had.An hour later, Eva found herself driving across Los Angeles, searching apartment listings.The first apartment was too expensive,the second was too small,the third looked nothing like the photos online.By noon, frustration was eating away at her patience.She sat inside her car outside another apartment building and rubbed her temp

Eva Hart cried until she had nothing left to do, her eyes were swollen and her voice was hoarse .The rain had stopped hours ago, but she still sat inside her car, parked in the corner of a twenty-four-hour supermarket lot. She stared outside the supermarket there she sighed at a little girl feeding her mum cotton candy.The sight was unbearable,Her eyes burned, Her head ached.Although in front of Daniel and Evelyn she acted like she didn't care but she actually did she was a very emotional person but uses her sharp tongue to cover it if that bastard knew her well he should have known he had touched her sore spot.Every time she closed her eyes, she saw Daniel and Evelyn standing together in her living room.Their smiles, lies and betrayal.Most of all, she heard Daniel's voice.“Maybe because you are a fucking barren bitch “The words replayed like a broken record.Eva tightened her grip on the steering wheel.A sob escaped her throat.For two years, she had loved that man , she suppo

"Apologize to Evelyn.” Eva Hart froze.For a moment, she wondered if she had heard her fiancé correctly ,this bastard has started again she thought she endured his rubbish and now he was at it again.The man standing before her was Daniel Brooks—the same man she had loved for two years. The same man she had supported through unemployment, debt, and countless excuses.Yet now he stood in the living room of the house she paid for, holding another woman's hand and that's woman was her fucked up best friend Evelyn Chico she had always suspected something was going on between she and Daniel.She just poured water on her face of this bitch and this bastard was asking her to apologize in her own house what right does this unemployed vagrant have to ask her to apologize.Eva let out a shaky laugh,excuse me apologize for what?Daniel's expression hardened he adjusted his pants and walked towards Eva "I said apologize."Her gaze slowly lifted to him and she couldn't help cursing what a scumbag