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Chapter 69- Stuck with my fate

Author: Luna Blue
last update Last Updated: 2025-10-05 21:32:01

Amelia POV

The night pressed down on me like a suffocating shroud. Sleep didn’t come—how could it, when my entire world had tilted on its axis in the span of a single plastic stick and two pink lines? I sat curled up on the edge of my bed, my shawl wrapped tightly around me, the pregnancy test lying on the nightstand like a silent witness to the chaos unraveling inside me.

The house was still. Too still. Every creak of the old floorboards sounded louder than usual, like the walls themselves were waiting for me to make a decision. My hands instinctively went to my abdomen again, resting there lightly. It was barely real yet. A handful of weeks, maybe. And yet… it was everything.

Maxwell’s signature on those divorce papers flashed in my mind. Bold. Final. Detached. He had walked away without a backward glance, leaving me to drown in the wreckage of what we once were. And now, here I was, clutching the single thread that bound us still.

No. I squeezed my eyes shut. This wasn’t his. Not a
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