Chapter 6

Veronica’s POV  

My jaw dropped so loud, lining my lips together felt almost impossible.

“I'm pregnant?” I stood staring at the pregnancy test kit for more than five minutes.

“Wait… Am I really pregnant? Ho—”

I caught sight of my reflection in the bathroom mirror. My face was swollen red, my eyes watered and my nostrils looked like… Pipelines?

“I'm really pregnant.” My hands went to my underbelly, and I could feel the warmth already spreading to my palms.

This was… this was a miracle!

“Oh my goodness!” I gasped when the news had settled in me. After so long, I was finally going to have a child.

A knock outside the door distracted me. 

“Are you alright, in there?” Four’s voice rumbled through the walls, “Do you need some help?”

“No!” I blurted out quickly. “Don't come in either.”

“Alright.”

I grabbed the side of my dress and adjusted it, my panties and underwear were next.

A sleek push-up and I was back to being decent. I grabbed my hair in a loose messy bun, a quick check on my face made me wipe the sides of my eyes, the threatening gunk from my eyes had to go if I was to break such amazing news to Jason.

Oh! I could already imagine how happy he was going to be.

I tore through the bathroom door with a pace so fast, I was like a cartoon character.

“Where the heck are you going?” Four asked me.

My eyes rolled in their sockets. Disgust sat wide and spread on my lips.

“And why would you ask me that, mate?”

“I just want to be sure you're not on your way to another back to go have some random pleasure things with another random stranger.”

I recoiled at his words. “Lower your blow, would you?”

“I'll try to.”

“Thanks.”

I snatched my keys off the side table and walked to the door, I gestured him out the door and into the living room. “I have great news for my husband if you don't mind.”

“You're married?” Four arched his brow.

“Is that so hard to believe?”

“Not after I found you yesterday. What news?”

“Well, it's none of your business so there's no need to tell you.”

“That's a lower blow. Ouch.”

The stranger was taking all of my time and so I walked out first, he followed me when he saw I wasn't in the mood for games.

“Get in,” I said when the door locks clicked open. “I'll drop you off at the estate gate.”

Four got into the passenger’s side. He grabbed the belt and sat patiently. 

I started the engine, “Before anything else, I just wanted to say thank you. I'm not always like this…. Actually, I'm never like this, I was just having a breakdown and I could… I didn't know… I was just…”

I lost the words to fill in what I meant and so I stopped trying. Four nodded. “I understand. I'm just glad you're happy and safe.”

“Thanks.” My mouth twisted into a widened grin as the car pulled out of the driveway and into the street.

As soon as I let out Four, I was already on the highway headed to Jason's house.

“I can't believe I'm having a baby.” My lips grew wider, and my teeth flashed proudly at my reflection in the mirror. “I guess I'm not as barren as I thought.”

My fingers gripped the steering wheel tightly as I hastened my pace. When I was almost by Jason's house, I stopped by to get flowers.

A ‘Getting back together/ I'm pregnant’ gift.

Some flowers and chocolate. Knowing Jason, I knew he would take one good look at me and fall on his knees again, confessing his love to me.

“Wow, that's a lot of flowers,’ the florist said, her eyes wide. “Any specific occasion?”

“Thanks. I'm about to apologise to my husband.”

She took a whiff at me. “Wow. I'll say this. If I were your husband and you apologised to me with this many flowers, I would get you a diamond ring again and ask you to renew your wedding vows with me.”

“Gee! Thanks!” I didn't stop grinning while I slipped my card to her. “I hope he feels the same way.”

“Trust me, sis. There is no guy on earth who wouldn't say yes, I forgive you to these many flowers and a kiss. I mean, come on, you're beautiful and you've got a great head on your head.”

She packed the flowers into a bag and handed me a thank-you note. “I really hope you have a nice day.”

“Thank you.”

“You're welcome.”

I swerved into Jason's gate blasting a love song at the highest volume. 

‘I will always remember….’

‘The day you kissed my lips… light as a feather… and it went just like this…’

Yes. That love song.

I caught the curtains upstairs but I couldn't tell if it was Jason or a maid.

Either way, I grabbed the flowers from the back seat and took the chocolate right out of the bag, singing that love song at the top of my voice.

“Jason, honey!” I screamed. “If you're hearing this, please come out.”

Nothing.

No one stepped out.

“Jason, bear. My baby honey, my pudding.”

Silence returned to me, left with the blasting echoes of the song that played in the background.

I started to breathe uneasily when I called the third time and he didn't answer, that's when I neared his door.

One knock.

A second and then a third, yet, Jason didn't answer.

I found the spare keys right in the flower pot we'd left them in years ago.

I pushed it into the lock and jangled them hard. The door creaked open before I stepped in.

“Jason?” I whispered, hoping the reason he hadn't called was because he wasn't home.

Oh, what a fool I was.

As my eyes adjusted to the dim light in the living room, I found the very man I was calling all the while, locked with his lips in Rhea’s mouth.

“JASON!” I screamed as the flowers fell to the floor and felt something shift in me.

If I weren't just newly pregnant, I could have sworn my water broke…