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CHAPTER 69
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Anna and Jonathan: The Arranged Marriage CHAPTER 69
JONATHAN'S POVI answered on the third ring, my heart already pounding before Doctor Reyes said a single word. Something about the timing itself, so far outside the window we had discussed, told me this was not a routine follow up call at all."Mr. Clarkson, I do apologize for calling outside our scheduled window. Some bloodwork from Anna's last visit came back with results I would prefer to discuss in person rather than over the phone. Nothing necessarily alarming, but I would feel more comfortable if you both came in this evening for a proper ultrasound.""What kind of results?""Elevated markers that can indicate several possible things, most of them entirely manageable. I do not want to speculate further until we have imaging in front of us. Can you come in within the hour?"I told him we could, and ended the call to find Anna already standing, her face pale, the earlier warmth between us replaced instantly by the same cold dread I felt spreading through my own chest."What is it?
Anna and Jonathan: The Arranged Marriage CHAPTER 68
JONATHAN'S POVI did not sleep the night Anna told me. I sat in my study long after she went upstairs, staring at the same page of quarterly reports without absorbing a single figure on it, my mind circling the same impossible arithmetic she had already handed me.The house grew quieter as the hours passed, the ordinary sounds of staff settling for the night fading into silence, until it was only me and the lamp on my desk and a math problem that refused to resolve itself no matter how many times I ran through it. Six weeks. Before the funeral. Before everything.I understood, somewhere beneath the noise of my own thoughts, that anger would accomplish nothing useful here. Anna had not chosen this uncertainty any more than I had. Whatever this pregnancy turned out to be, punishing her for circumstances neither of us controlled would only compound damage we had already spent weeks trying to repair.I called my own doctor first thing the following morning, arranging the earliest availabl
Anna and Jonathan: The Arranged Marriage CHAPTER 67
ANNA'S POVI did not have the luxury of sitting with the uncertainty as long as I wanted to, much as some part of me had hoped for a little more time before facing what came next.Three days after the test, Doctor Ellison's office called to confirm my long overdue physical, the same appointment I had been putting off since before Lucas died. I almost canceled it, telling myself I could reschedule once I had more time to think, once the rest of my life felt less like a series of collapsing walls. Something made me keep it instead, some instinct telling me that avoiding a doctor's office would not make any of this less true.The clinic felt too bright and too ordinary for what I was walking in carrying, magazines fanned neatly across a coffee table, a fish tank bubbling quietly in the corner, other women in the waiting room chatting easily about names and nurseries as though pregnancy were a simple, uncomplicated joy rather than the tangled question currently sitting in my chest, heavy
Anna and Jonathan: The Arranged Marriage CHAPTER 66
ANNA'S POVI noticed the date on the calendar three days before I let myself fully acknowledge what it meant, glancing at it each morning while making coffee and quickly redirecting my attention elsewhere, as though avoiding the thought long enough might somehow undo the calculation running quietly in the back of my mind.The calendar itself hung in the kitchen, an ordinary household fixture I had walked past a thousand times without any particular significance attached to it, and yet those three mornings it seemed to demand attention in a way it never had before, the small printed numbers refusing to let my eyes slide past them the way they usually did, insisting instead on being counted and recounted until the truth of them could no longer be avoided.I was late. Not by a day or two, which happened occasionally and meant nothing, but by nearly two weeks, an irregularity my body had never produced before without clear explanation. I told myself it was stress, grief, the sheer physica
Anna and Jonathan: The Arranged Marriage CHAPTER 65
JONATHAN'S POVI found the box of old photographs by accident, searching through a closet in my study for a contract I had misplaced weeks earlier, and once I found it, I could not make myself put it away again.The box itself was unremarkable, plain cardboard gone soft at the corners, the kind of thing easily forgotten in the back of a closet for years at a time. I nearly closed the lid without looking inside at all, distracted by the contract I still needed to locate, before something made me pause and lift the first photograph out instead.Lucas and I at fourteen, grinning at the camera with matching black eyes after a rugby match that had gone badly for both of us. Lucas and I at nineteen, standing awkwardly in ill fitting suits at my father's insistence, the two of us clearly more interested in whatever joke had just passed between us than the formal portrait we were supposed to be taking seriously. Lucas at my side during every difficult season of my adult life, my father's hear
Anna and Jonathan: The Arranged Marriage CHAPTER 64
ANNA'S POVThe house felt larger in the days after the funeral, its rooms stretching into distances that had never seemed so vast before, though nothing about its physical dimensions had actually changed. Jonathan and I moved through it separately, our paths crossing at meals and in hallways, neither of us quite finding the words to follow through on whatever admission had passed between us in the car outside the cemetery.I noticed small things during those quiet days, the particular way sound traveled differently through empty rooms, how the garden looked different now that I could no longer walk through it without thinking of Lucas, how even Jonathan's study, once a place I rarely entered, had started to feel like the only room in the house that still contained something honest.I found myself avoiding certain hallways entirely, certain rooms, as though grief had redrawn the map of a house I had lived in for over a year, marking territories now too painful to cross without warning.
Anna and Jonathan: The Arranged Marriage CHAPTER 30
JONATHAN'S POV My phone beeped indicating that I have a message. I took my phone to check it. Going through the message, what I read took me by surprise. So, she is related to the manager. A lot of questions has been roaming in my head concerning the incident that day. I told lucas to investigate
Anna and Jonathan: The Arranged Marriage CHAPTER 25
ANNA'S POV.He cupped my face in his palm and kissed me deeply just like a person who is in love. The kiss was slow and tender not as rough as he used to have it. He took his time to suckle my lower lips, licking the lipgloss I applied. At first, I didn't respond but later on, I reciprocated the kiss
Anna and Jonathan: The Arranged Marriage CHAPTER 24
LUCAS POV. I grinned like a child heading out of Jonathan's study room. Not entirely because of my joke to get Anna to hear my voice but because of the location of their honeymoon. I typed on my phone, taking slow steps along the passages that led to Jonathan's bedroom. I clicked send and smiled bro
Anna and Jonathan: The Arranged Marriage CHAPTER 22
JONATHAN POVI searched all over the house for Anna but couldn't find her. I asked the maid and I was told she went out. I should have been less concerned but for unknown reasons, I was angry that I didn't find her at home.The thought of her going to see another man came to my mind. I don't know why
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