Lahat ng Kabanata ng Crown and Consequences- Falling for the hunted billionaire: Kabanata 1 - Kabanata 4

I stared at them as though if I blinked hard enough they would disappear, fade into an illusion, or vanish back into nothing but they didn't. They stayed, smug on the plastic stick in my trembling hand. Unwavering. Positive.I breathed. It was shaky and I felt empty. My heart pounded so loud it covered everything else- the whine of the broken bathroom fan, the traffic on the city streets in the distance, the soft thrum of my own thoughts… everything.I was pregnant. I laughed. One of those quiet, bitter laughs that were alien and deep.How? Oh who was I kidding? I knew how.One night. One stupid, hot, beautiful mistake. But it wasn't supposed to follow me. It wasn't supposed to cling to my insides like a secret I couldn't keep.I dropped the test in the sink. The sound it made was too definitive. My knees gave way beneath me and I fell across the edge of the tub and looked down at the cracked tile below me. The air clung heavy, stickily sticking to me like guilt and my throat burned

Aria's POVAs much as I felt the adrenaline rush, I didn't go in right away. In all honesty, I was scared. Scared that there might be someone in there, waiting. I just stood there, immobile on the porch, staring at the open edge of my front door hanging. My keys were sgaking in my hand as I held them out, using the toe of my sneaker to push the door inward. The squeak of metal echoed louder than it ought to have and before I even stepped in, I came face to face with the havoc that had been done. Drawers were yanked out of their cabinets and tossed to the ground. Couch cushions overturned and my bookshelf turned over, paperbacks onto the tile. The scent of my vanilla candle still lingered, revoltingly sweet in the midst of the chaos.But it was what turned my stomach to knots and ties that wasn't the mess. And I rummaged through the mess, I realised a folder was missing. It was my hospital folder. It contained my ultrasound photos, clinic appointments, and blood work. EtcAnd it was