Nancy held Deanna's left shoulder to calm her down. “Shouldn't you check it? Tomorrow I'll go to the market and buy you a test pack. You can check it tomorrow morning, but don't urinate first.”
Deanna just nodded, still unable to believe that she was really pregnant. Was Deanna pregnant? Why did it hurt so much for Deanna?
“I don't want to be pregnant with that man's child. I don't want to!” Deanna screamed in her heart. The woman felt like a rock was hitting her chest when she realized that she had all the symptoms of a pregnant woman.
“Don't be afraid, Deanna. Maybe you're just tired.” Nancy finally left Deanna in the room. “Get a good night's rest, who knows, maybe you're not pregnant after all.”
That night, Deanna couldn't sleep comfortably because she was still overthinking Nancy's words from a few hours ago. The woman couldn't do anything but cry and blame herself for what was happening now.
The next day, Nancy came to Deanna's room after the woman allowed her to enter. The depressed-looking woman took the object from Nancy's hand.
“It's a test pack. You haven't peed this morning, right?” asked Nancy, who had previously warned Deanna. The woman came to Deanna's room at seven in the morning.
“I haven't peed yet.”
“This too.” Nancy handed a small container to Deanna. “Collect your urine in here, then dip the end of the test pack in and wait ten minutes. You'll find out if you're pregnant or not.”
“Can I borrow your cell phone? I want to use the stopwatch so I know if I've dipped the test pack in for ten minutes or not.”
Nancy looked at Deanna for a few seconds with a suspicious expression. “I can't do that. I'll yell when it's been ten minutes. I'll wait in this room until you come out of the bathroom.”
Deanna gave the middle-aged woman a pleading look. “Are you afraid I'll call the police? I won't do that.”
“You will do that. So get in the bathroom and do what I said.”
Deanna sighed softly and entered the bathroom feeling annoyed. She couldn't fool Nancy because the middle-aged woman seemed to have been instructed by Meazus to monitor Deanna's every move.
“Okay, I have to wait ten minutes.” Deanna looked at the end of the test pack that had been dipped into the container of urine. “I pray that the result is negative. I don't want to have a child from that evil man. He might kill my baby and me too.”
Deanna continued to hope that the result of the test pack would be negative, but it turned out to be the opposite.
“Positive?!” Deanna covered her mouth and crouched weakly beside the bathtub, thinking about how her life would be after this. “I'm pregnant. Oh God! I'm pregnant!”
Nancy knocked on the bathroom door because she hadn't heard any sound from inside for more than twenty minutes. “Are you okay, Deanna?”
“I'm fine. I'm okay.”
Deanna opened the bathroom door with her hair slightly disheveled and handed the device to Nancy.
Nancy’s expression changed instantly. “Y-you’re pregnant?”
The woman nodded and quickly grabbed Nancy’s hand. “Can you keep this a secret? I’m begging you.”
“Keep it a secret? Why do you want to keep it a secret?”
“Meazus hates me so much, he must hate the baby in my womb too. So, he will definitely kill us.”
“Don't you want Meazuz to kill you? Why are you afraid of being killed now that you know you're pregnant?”
Deanna touched her still flat stomach. “This child has done nothing wrong. I will survive for this child. So I don't want to die.” Deanna looked at Nancy with a pleading expression. "Don't tell anyone. Let this be our secret."
“Pregnant women need special care. You also need to have an ultrasound to see how the baby is developing, so how long are you going to hide your pregnancy?”
“I don't know. But I want you not to tell anyone in the near future. If it has to come out, let me tell Meazus myself.”
Nancy could only sigh heavily and nod in agreement to Deanna's request. “All right, I'll keep it a secret for now. But sooner or later you have to be honest about your pregnancy. Whether he kills you or not, that's Meazus' decision.”
Deanna walked slowly from the bathroom door to the side of the bed. “When is Meazus coming home?”
“I don't know. We can never guess when Meazus will come home. Why?” asked Nancy, who followed Deanna's footsteps and stood in front of her.
“When he comes home later, I'll tell him I'm pregnant.”
“You won't keep it a secret?”
“No, I'll ask for leniency?”
“Hm?” Nancy sat down next to Deanna. The woman was changing her plans too quickly.
“What kind of leniency?”
“If he doesn't like me and wants to kill me. I'll tell him if I'm pregnant with his baby... I don't know if he'll kill this baby or not, but if he doesn't... can you raise my baby for me?”
Nancy furrowed her eyebrows. “Why do you think that?”
“Meazus wants to kill me. He will kill me when he returns from abroad, I'm sure.”
“I'm sure Alpha Meazuz won't kill you.”
Deanna looked at Nancy, who believed her words wholeheartedly. “I've been working with Meazus for a long time. Selena is not Meazus's biological child,” Nancy continued.
Deanna's eyes widened. “Selena?” "Yes, Selena is Sharena's child with another man. Meazus loved Sharena very much, and when she came to him with a pregnant belly, he helped her. They got married while Sharena was pregnant, and she died after giving birth to Selena. So Selena is not Meazus' biological child. Meazus loved Selena, who was not his own biological child, so why would he want to kill his own biological child?"
Deanna was silent for a moment, then spoke to Nancy. "There is a difference between me and Sharena. Meazuz loved Sharena, so he loved everything about Sharena. But me? Meazuz hated me, and it's possible he hated the baby in my womb too."
“But I'm sure... Meazus might still hate you, but he wouldn't kill his own flesh and blood.”
“Levi... Can you leave me alone for a few minutes?” Deanna held her stomach because she felt uncomfortable. For the past few days, Deanna had often felt depressed and afraid that it would cause problems for her fetus. “Please.”The man sighed softly then left the room and closed the door without locking it—because the room couldn't be locked from the outside without a key card. Levi would let Deanna clear her mind, as would he.Levi stopped in the middle of the hallway and kicked the empty air with overflowing anger. Was Levi really late? What was that man actually doing to make Deanna love him?“Where is he?” Levi asked someone on the phone. “In room 321, Mr. Levi.”The man immediately walked towards the room to find Meazus unconscious. Initially, Levi wanted Meazus to come to room 333 to meet him, but the situation was completely unpredictable.Levi thought Deanna would thank him and they would live happily ever after, but instead Deanna asked him not to interfere.So, Levi wanted
“All right, our work is done.” Zake stretched his body to the left and right until he heard a ‘crack’. “Looks like we'll be heading to the hotel lounge as usual. Are you coming, Mr. Meazus?” “No, I'll accompany Deanna.”“Sure, but... Are we going home tomorrow?”Meazus nodded as he picked up his key card from the middle of the table. “Yes, we have to be at the airport tomorrow morning. So pack your things tonight. Don't get drunk.”Zoan and Zake obeyed Meazus' request, then they got up from the sofa in the restaurant to go to the lounge. They had previously agreed to meet the other four members of Lucasio there.The two entered the lounge, but found no one there. Hadn't they reserved the lounge? Then why was it empty? Zake walked in and saw a black bag on the sofa, and even several bottles of wine that were still full. “It looks like they were here, but—”At that moment, Zoan, who was still standing in the doorway, was pushed inside by someone. Several large men entered the lounge t
A few hours ago...Levi exhaled cigarette smoke from his mouth as he leaned back on the sofa. “Did you get any information from them?”The men who were smoking nodded and sat down in front of Levi. “They're going somewhere for a walk.”One of the men began to respond. “They went to the park and had a small picnic.”“I feel like something is wrong with that woman.” One of them spoke, and it made Levi a little curious to hear more clearly.“What do you mean?”The man exhaled his cigarette smoke before speaking. “Isn't that woman's stomach a little big? I don't think it's just a normal belly, but she's pregnant. That woman is pregnant.”Levi felt a bolt of lightning strike the room and shake his heart. Deanna was pregnant? Why had Levi never thought of that? Levi often saw Deanna wearing knee-length dresses, but he never suspected she was pregnant.“P-pregnant? Are you sure about that?” asked Levi, who still couldn't accept this painful fact. It seemed that Levi's guess was correct if th
“Why—”“Hello.” Zake deliberately raised his voice so that the two people there would notice that they were close. Zoan and Zake didn't want to be mistaken for eavesdropping on Deanna and Meazus' conversation.“Here are the drinks and food we bought.”Zake opened the plastic bag containing food and Zoan opened the plastic bag containing drinks. They shared them with Deanna and Meazus, as well as with the four members of Lucasio who were playing cards.“I saw it,” said Zoan as the two of them also kept their distance from the other members of Lucasio.“What?” asked Zake while chewing.“The red mark. There's a red mark that doesn't seem to be covered up properly. It looks like a small bite mark,” Zoan replied, explaining what he saw. “It looks like Meazus bit the bottle a little too hard.”"Am I right? How many times have they done that?"Zoan clicked his tongue as if to stop this meaningless conversation. The two men now enjoyed their food while thinking about their own problems.“You
“Have you gotten any information about the woman I mentioned yesterday?” Levi asked one of his members. They were sitting in a lounge, just like they had been doing every night at this hotel.The man sitting on the black sofa put his cigarette on the edge of the table and took some papers out of his bag. There were six large men there, all of whom were Levi's right-hand men in running his company and black organization.The man took the first sheet of paper and began to explain. “The woman was born and raised in Manhattan. I found information about her workplace and university. She is twenty-five years old and—”Meazus folded his right leg over his left. “I know. I could have found that information myself without your help.”“You haven't heard my whole explanation, Mr. Levi.”Levi folded his arms across his chest and spoke. “Go on.”“The woman was once engaged to be married to a man, but she was cheated on. So they called off the wedding.”Levi never knew Deanna had a story like that.
“Wait a minute, I have to put on my jacket first.”Deanna hurried to cover the red mark around her neck. She applied foundation to conceal it well. At first, Deanna wanted to wear a scarf, but the weather in Toulouse was hot and she would be laughed at.“Hopefully the foundation won't smudge,” Deanna said to herself before leaving the hotel room.She wore the outfit Zake had picked out for her at the mall. It was perfect for a pregnant woman because it had long sleeves, so she didn't need to wear a cardigan.Luckily, Deanna also had long hair, so people wouldn't focus on the red mark covered by the foundation.“Are you ready?” asked Zake, who was still standing faithfully in front of the hotel room door.Deanna nodded. “Yes.”They walked down the hotel hallway and suddenly Zake needed to pee. They looked for a toilet on the same floor because he couldn't hold it in any longer.Deanna waited in front of the men's toilet hallway, looking left and right.“Nurse.”Deanna, recognizing the