The next two weeks felt like a thick fog swallowing Tessa’s life, filled with nausea, chills, and a silence neither of them dared to break. Nathan never mentioned that fight again, as if his words had slipped out in a moment of weakness and vanished with the night. Nothing was resolved. Only quiet lingered between them.Tessa followed the doctor’s orders to rest, but it did nothing to stop the relentless waves of nausea. The smallest scent could send her rushing to the bathroom, her body determined to expel every last thing inside her. Even when she had gastritis, it was never this brutal.It felt like the tiny life growing inside her was draining her strength drop by drop.She didn’t know what time it was when her body jerked awake, instincts driving her straight to the bathroom. She collapsed over the toilet, emptying what little was left in her stomach.A large warm hand rubbed her back, and another gently held her hair away from her face. She didn’t need to look to know it was Nat
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