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“I’m not going anywhere,” Lena said eventually, and he felt something in his chest ease slightly at the words, though he understood, watching her expression, that this wasn’t a simple absolution either. “But I want to be honest with you. This changes something. Not us, not fundamentally. But I need to sit with what I just learned, and I need you to let me sit with it honestly, without trying to manage how I feel about it or rush me toward reassurance before I&rsq

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  • Pregnant and Rejected, Now She’s Back!   161

    They sat together a while longer, the coffee going cold between them, the conversation settling into something less adversarial than it had begun, two women who’d each, in their own way, been shaped by the same man’s choices, finding an unexpected, careful respect for each other across the specific difficulty of the situation.“I’ll let Seth know we spoke,” Lena said eventually. “I think what happens next needs to be between the two of you directly.”“Thank you,” Dahlia said, and there was something almost like relief in it, the particular relief of finally being heard by someone with no obligation to take her side and choosing to acknowledge her legitimacy anyway.Lena left the coffee shop with more clarity than she’d arrived with, and considerably more complicated feelings than she’d expected to be carrying home to the man she still, despite everything, fully intended to marry.She walked several

  • Pregnant and Rejected, Now She’s Back!   160

    “I want what I built to be acknowledged and compensated,” Dahlia said. “That’s it. That’s the whole of what I want, stated as simply as I can manage.”“Tell me what you built,” Lena said.Dahlia did, methodically, the specifics arriving in a steady, unemotional accounting that somehow carried more weight for its restraint than any impassioned version might have. The money she’d put in, savings built over years in a more established firm before she’d taken the risk of leaving to build something new. The contacts she’d sourced personally, relationships she’d cultivated over years that became the foundation Seth’s firm still operated on today, six years later, under a name that credited only him. The specific years she’d given to something that became his success story entirely, with her own name quietly absent from any account of its origins.She did not raise her voice. She did no

  • Pregnant and Rejected, Now She’s Back!   159

    She woke the next morning with that same clarity intact, and found herself, over the following days, watching for any sign that Lena might reach out again, whether through another meeting request or some more informal channel. None came immediately, and Dahlia understood she needed to be patient, that whatever process was unfolding on Lena’s end was happening on its own timeline, one she had no ability to accelerate or influence directly.She used the waiting period productively, continuing her work with Sienna, finalizing the revised contract language her own team had drafted in response to Lena’s original concerns, and found, doing that work, a specific satisfaction in getting the actual client relationship right regardless of whatever personal complications simmered in the background. Sienna deserved a contract built on genuine protection rather than defensive overcorrection, and Dahlia intended to deliver exactly that, separate from anything else happening in he

  • Pregnant and Rejected, Now She’s Back!   158

    A confession could be managed, framed, softened in the telling. She had no way of knowing, sitting in her own office turning this over, exactly how Seth had actually described what happened, whether he’d told Lena the full, ugly shape of it or some carefully edited version that made him look like someone who’d simply made a mistake rather than someone who’d taken what wasn’t his and never made it right.There was still, she decided, a significant distance between Seth telling Lena the story and Lena understanding what the story had actually cost.That distance, she understood, examining the shape of her own remaining leverage, was where whatever she decided to do next would need to live. Not in exposing a secret Seth had already exposed himself. In making sure the actual weight of what he’d done landed properly, rather than settling into some managed, softened version that let him keep the reputation he’d built without ever fully reckoni

  • Pregnant and Rejected, Now She’s Back!   157

    He got up eventually and checked on Lena, finding her already in bed, not quite asleep, and he sat down carefully on the edge of the mattress.“I’m still here,” he said quietly. “Whatever you need, however long you need it. I’m not going anywhere while you work through this.”She looked at him for a long moment in the dim light. “I know,” she said. “Go to sleep, Seth. We’ll keep talking tomorrow.”He nodded, and lay down beside her, and though sleep took a long time to come for either of them, the simple fact of lying there together, honest now in a way they hadn’t been an hour earlier, felt like its own small, necessary step forward.She found out Seth had told Lena through Tola, of all people, her own client’s cousin who worked in a loosely adjacent corner of the industry and who mentioned it entirely casually, without any understanding of what the informat

  • Pregnant and Rejected, Now She’s Back!   156

    “I’m not going anywhere,” Lena said eventually, and he felt something in his chest ease slightly at the words, though he understood, watching her expression, that this wasn’t a simple absolution either. “But I want to be honest with you. This changes something. Not us, not fundamentally. But I need to sit with what I just learned, and I need you to let me sit with it honestly, without trying to manage how I feel about it or rush me toward reassurance before I’m ready to offer it.”“I can do that,” he said.“I know you can,” she said. “I just wanted to say it plainly.”The space between them, when she finally stood to leave the office, was not broken. He understood that clearly, watching her go. But it had a new texture now, something neither of them could fully smooth over with a single honest conversation, no matter how completely he’d finally told her the truth.He sat alone at

  • Pregnant and Rejected, Now She’s Back!   Chapter four

    Humiliated and ashamed with tears streaming down my face, I ran out of the café as fast as I could.I forgot about the evidence, forgot about everything except getting somewhere safe.I drove toward my parents’ house, the place that had always been my refuge.Despite everything—despite the distance

  • Pregnant and Rejected, Now She’s Back!   Chapter three

    He sat on a white couch, looking relaxed and handsome in a tailored suit. And beside him, holding his hand—Cassia.“—so grateful to have her back,” Darius was saying, smiling at her with such warmth it made my chest ache. “I thought I’d lost her forever.”“And what about your wife?” the interviewe

  • Pregnant and Rejected, Now She’s Back!   Chapter two

    I stood there waiting for him to take it back, waiting for him to realize what he’d just said.Abort it. Our child. Our baby.“Darius—” My voice broke.But he wasn’t even looking at me anymore. He was already moving toward the door, his jaw set, his eyes distant.“Darius, please!” I grabbed his arm

  • Pregnant and Rejected, Now She’s Back!   Chapter one

    My hands wouldn’t stop shaking as I clutched the test results against my chest. Three years of trying, of hoping, of praying every single month only to be disappointed.But not this time. This time, the test was positive. I was pregnant with Darius’s child.A smile broke across my face despite the

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