Chapter 4: A strange man

Stella POV

Maybe just maybe he would bring the money right away.

That was what I thought.

But instead, the kidnappers began touching my clothes.

“Please, no. I am pregnant. I beg you, please spare me,” I pleaded with them as I tried pushing their hands away, but I was one woman against four men, what could I possibly do?

My voice broke as I cried, placing a protective hand over my stomach.

They all burst out laughing.

“Mary paid us to make sure you and your child did not survive, and to make sure we ruin your beautiful body,” one of the kidnappers said.

His face twisted cruelly before he punched my stomach with all his

I gasped in shock and pain. My stomach is bruised and in pain.

One of the men grabbed the front of my dress and ripped it open, exposing my chest. His filthy hands moved up my thighs.

He was trying to rape a pregnant woman?

My eyes burned with tears as I began to cry, my own husband left me to this evil fate.

The man I have taken care of from our university days left me to get raped.

A loud bang echoed.

A bullet tore through the head of the man positioning himself in between my legs and he collapsed to the floor, dead.

The kidnappers tried to reach out for their guns, but they fell one by one, shot down and dead before my eyes.

“What disgusting men ,trying to rape a pregnant woman, “ I heard a low voice said and I blinked away my tears and looked up.

I saw a strange man standing there.

Then I looked down at my blood-soaked dress.

And everything went black.

I woke up five days later.

My body felt empty and broken.

The doctor explained everything to me.

The baby had died in my stomach.

They had removed my unborn daughter through a C-section.

I could only silently shed tears.

The door opened.

Andrew ,my husband walked in with Mary clinging to him, tears in her eyes.

“Stella, please forgive me. It was all my fault. I deserved to die,” Andrew said.

For the first time, I wished he had died instead of my child.

“I am so sorry. I thought they wouldn’t harm you until I got the money,” Andrew continued.

A single tear slid down my cheek, but my face remained calm.

“I want a divorce,” I said with my voice low.

My voice did not shake.

Andrew’s eyes widened.

“What? No, you can’t do that. This was all a mistake!” Andrew shouted.

Panic was in his voice.

I stared at him coldly.

Right now standing before me I do not see the man that I married, I just saw a man who decided to exchange my safety for the safety of another woman.

“Andrew, this was no mistake. It was deliberate. You took me from where I was resting at home and gave me to kidnappers who killed my child and tried to rape me, if i tell you that they said Mary was the one who paid them to do it, you would never believe me,” I said slowly.

Every word came from deep pain.

“I don’t need to stay in a marriage where I am the third wheel. We have no children. You can marry Mary without any baggage from me,” I told him.

If I had left sooner, my child would still be alive.

But I knew I had to survive, because this would not be the last attempt on my life.

“Stella, we can have another child,” Andrew said desperately.

I shook my head.

“No. I want a new husband, one who wants to be married to me, not to his first love. Please leave my room,” I said firmly.

He kept arguing, but I completely turned him out.

Then there was a knock on the door.

My lawyer walked in, holding divorce papers.

He handed them to Andrew.

Andrew glanced at the papers, then ripped them apart and tossed them to the floor.

“I will never divorce you,” Andrew said angrily.

His voice was filled with rage.

I looked at him calmly.

“You should leave my room, or I will call the police and inform them of everything that happened,” I said, my tone was neutral, but he knew I was telling the truth.

Seeing the tension in the room, Mary stepped in.

“Andrew, let her rest. She is shaken by everything that happened. We will come back later to talk,” she said calmly.

Andrew hesitated, then finally left.

And for the first time since everything began

I was alone and at peace.