The Trip

Charlotte

I didn't want to create a connection between myself and the growing baby inside me because I knew what I would have to do, and at Oliver's insistence, I had even started seeing a psychologist since I received the positive test result. It was better to talk about other things.

"He didn't back down on the new price, but since you insisted that we should pay the amount he was demanding, I gave in, and we're going to sign the papers tomorrow morning."

"It's better this way, Emily," I agreed. "He didn't want to lose out, and we wanted the house, and we had the money. Why not just give in and resolve it quickly?"

Mr. Willis is the man who had bought Thomas's house, and when I received the money from the contract with Mr. Brian, we made an offer for the house with the same amount he had paid, but he didn't accept it. Since I received one million dollars in the first part of the agreement, and even after paying what he had asked for, there would still be some money left for me to ta