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ARTEMIS AKA WOLF

I step under the hot cascading water, watching as the crimson liquid eventually turns transparent.

I allow the hot water to flow over my hair while resting my palm on the wall above my head and dipping my chin.

So many thoughts are running through my mind, but one voice is screaming so aggressively that it drowns out the others.

'You have lost her, she is pregnant, and she no longer wants to be with you.'

Rolling my shoulders, I sway my neck underneath the shower head and grit my teeth.

I'm not willing to let her go.

I understand how inconsiderate I was by forcing her to stay and take a paternity test.

If by some ill-fated chance, the baby is Aleksanders', I will have the results changed; forged with my name as the biological father.

There are two types of people in the universe.

Those who blame the world and accept defeat.

And those who resist and win.

I am not a man to accept a cheap spoon as my award and stare at it with the excuse that there was nothing I