All Chapters of Pregnant And Abandoned, I Returned As A Hidden Heiress: Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

ANNA’S POV"Anna, where are you? Have you heard the news?” Clara's voice came through the phone, bright and full of excitement. I pressed the phone closer to my ear, frowning. Clara was my colleague from the pharmaceutical company where I work, and she only called me when something big happened. “What news?” I asked, wiping my hands quickly on my apron. The smell of butter and sugar still lingered on my fingers. It was one of my off days from work at Greenleaf Pharmaceutical, so I was standing by my small roadside cake stand watching cars zoom past, hoping someone would stop to buy something before the cakes got cold. “James just got promoted and was awarded a huge sum of money!” Clara almost screamed. “I heard it was because of the new drug formula he submitted, it got approved by Davenport Group and the company is holding a promotion ceremony for him.” For a moment, I froze, my heart thumping so loud it drowned out the sound of traffic. My throat went dry. The drug. I swa

ANNA’S POVMy heart sank as if a stone had dropped into my stomach. I had hidden that slip deep inside a box at the back of my storage room. I thought no one would ever find it. I wasn’t ready to tell anyone.So how had she found it?I had even managed to forget, at least for a little while, that something was growing inside me.I had gone to the hospital two days ago because I was feeling sick, and I walked out with the news that I was four weeks pregnant. That was supposed to be my secret. The one I wanted to share with James when he finally proposed. But now here I was, cornered, exposed, standing alone with my mother’s fury crashing down on me.“You dare ask me what you did?” she shouted, her chest rising and falling. “This is what you’ve been doing with your life? After everything I sacrificed for you, after all the money I spent raising you, you repay me by spreading your legs and getting pregnant like a common street girl? If Bella hadn’t found this, was this how you’d have kep