All Chapters of Pregnant by Two Secrets: My Ex and His Father: Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

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Chapter 21: Replacement lurking

The house changed after the burial.Not in obvious ways. The walls didn’t shift. The furniture stayed where it was. The staff still moved quietly, efficiently, like ghosts trained to never disturb the air.But something essential was gone.Not Chase.Sound.Silence settled into the Sinclair mansion like a second skin. The kind that didn’t come from peace but from things left unsaid on purpose.Lucien stopped touching me.It happened so suddenly that at first, I thought it was temporary. A pause. Grief, maybe. Shock. The kind of emotional shutdown people talk about when something painful happens.But days passed.Then a week.And nothing.No hand on my waist when we passed in the hallway.No fingers curling around my wrist when he wanted my attention.No presence behind me at night.He slept in the same bed.That somehow made it worse.The first night after the funeral, I lay awake while he lay beside me, stiff on his back, staring at the ceiling like it had answers he wasn’t sharing.

Chapter 22: The invisible wife

I learned what it meant to disappear without leaving a room.It didn’t come with shouting or slammed doors.It happened quietly. The morning started the same way they all had lately.I woke up alone.Lucien’s side of the bed was untouched, and cold. I lay there longer than necessary, staring at the ceiling, listening to the house breathe. The guards changing shifts. The elevator humming from somewhere distant. Life continuing, efficiently, without me.My hand drifted to my stomach. I didn’t think about it. I just… checked. As if touch alone could confirm that something was still real.Still here.I rose up from the bed, but stood too fast. The room tilted. I steadied myself against the nightstand, waited for the dizziness to pass.It always passed.Everything passed now.Even pain.Downstairs, the house was already awake.I took a seat at the breakfast table.My place setting was already there. Simple, and minimal.No Lucien.I picked a piece of toast, took a sip of tea that tasted

Chapter 23: Less than a wife

I stood at the top of the staircase that morning, one hand resting on the banister, the other pressed lightly to my stomach. The house was already alive below me. Voices. Footsteps. The soft clink of porcelain.I used to walk down and the room would be still.Not out of respect.Out of awareness.But now..“Tessa, the flowers have arrived.”“Tessa, the driver is ready.”“Tessa, should we move the luncheon to the east dining room?”Her name floated freely like air. Accepted.I walked down slowly, each step careful. My body feels heavier these days, not visibly, but internally. The staff gathered near the entryway.And Tessa stood in the center of them.She was dressed in pale blue, tailored, effortless. A tablet in her hand. Her posture was straight, calm, and authoritative. She didn’t raise her voice. She didn’t need to.“Yes,” she said. “Place the flowers in the main hall. Lucien prefers symmetry.”Lucien prefers.Not Ophelia prefers.Not the house usually does.Lucien.One of the m

Chapter 24: Rejected

The door opened.I didn’t move.Lucien stood there.Suit jacket off. Shirt sleeves rolled with an unpredictable expression.He didn’t ask why I was there.He just looked at me… then over my shoulder… then stepped aside.“Come in,” he said.Not gentle. Not cruel. Just… tired.I walked past him. My shoulder brushed his chest and he didn’t react. And then I saw them.Three members of the Sinclair family sat around the table like a tribunal waiting for the accused.Lucien’s sister, Isabella looked at me up and down slowly, and then her eyes settled on my stomach. “Well,” she said, leaning back. “The incubator finally arrives.”My throat tightened.I stopped near the door. No one offered me a chair.Lucien closed the door behind me.The click sounded like judgment.Lucien walked to the head of the table and sat without acknowledging the tension. He didn’t look at me. He didn’t tell his family to behave.He let the silence kill me.He wanted to see how I’ll handle the pressure.I folded m

Chapter 25: The friend who stayed too close

I couldn’t stop watching her.Every movement Tessa made inside the house felt louder now. Louder than footsteps. Louder than doors closing. Louder than Lucien’s silence.She didn’t rush anymore.She walked like she owned time.Servants waited for her nod before moving. She checked schedules. Approved menus. Corrected staff gently, always gently, like she had never done anything but belong here.And me?I moved like a visitor.A quiet one.A temporary one.I sat in the breakfast room that used to feel like mine and watched her pour Lucien coffee. She knew exactly how much milk he wanted. Exactly when he preferred silence. Exactly when he expected conversation.I used to know those things.Now I was learning them from the outside.Lucien barely looked at me. His eyes moved past me… over me… through me.But he listened to her.That hurt more than anything else.I tried to convince myself it was stress.Pregnancy hormones.Grief.Loneliness.Anything but betrayal.But my mind kept replay

Chapter 26: My body or not

Every time I closed my eyes, Tessa’s words replayed like a song stuck in my throat.I sat up slowly.My body felt heavier than it had yesterday. Not bigger. Just…uncomfortable. Like I was carrying a weight that wasn’t asking permission anymore.A knock came before I could stand.Three sharp taps.“Get dressed,” Lucien’s voice came through the door. “We’re leaving in ten minutes.”No explanation.No question.Just another decision made around me.The hospital is my second home now.The car ride was silent.Tessa sat in front this time.I noticed it immediately.She adjusted the air conditioning without asking Lucien. Checked his phone when it buzzed. Gave directions to the driver without hesitation.She moved like she had always been part of this space.Lucien didn’t even glance back at me.My hands rested on my lap, cracked my fingers out of anxiety. I watched my reflection in the tinted window and barely recognized the woman staring back.Pale.Quiet.Owned.Then there’s that antisep

Chapter 27: They didn’t lower their voices

That evening…I tried to eat but everything tasted awful. The baby shifted, or maybe it was my imagination, and nausea crawled up my throat again.Tessa hovered briefly, offering tea, touching my shoulder gently.“Rest,” she said softly.I nodded.Because I didn’t know how to say no anymore.Felt the need to use the bathroom and there, the bleeding started.Light.Pink.Small enough that someone else might ignore it.But I knew immediately something was wrong.My hands shook as I stared at the stain.“No… no… no…” I whispered.My heart pounded so hard I thought I might faint again.I ran to Lucien’s study.Didn’t knock.Just pushed the door open.“I’m bleeding,” I said, breathless. “Something’s wrong.”He looked up slowly from his laptop.Annoyance crossed his face first.Not fear.Not concern.Annoyance.“How much,” he asked flatly.“Not a lot but..”“Then monitor it,” he said. “Pregnancy isn’t comfortable.”My chest tightened painfully.“I’m scared,” I whispered.Lucien leaned back

Chapter 28: Talking to the dark

I stopped counting the days.Time didn’t feel real anymore. It stretched.I sat on the edge of my bed, both hands wrapped around my stomach like I was trying to hold myself together from the inside.“I’m trying,” I whispered. “I know I’m not strong… but I’m trying.”My voice sounded unfamiliar. Thinner. Like someone who had already lost too much to recognize herself anymore.I had started talking to my belly constantly.Not because anyone told me to.Not because it comforted me at first.But because silence made me feel like I was disappearing.“They don’t see me anymore,” I murmured. “But you do… right? You can feel me?”My fingers traced slow circles over my belly.“They treat me like I’m empty,” I continued. “Like I’m just… carrying something valuable.”My throat tightened painfully.“But you’re not things,” I whispered quickly. “You’re mine.”A tear slipped down my cheek and landed on my wrist.I leaned back against the headboard and exhaled shakily.“I wish I was braver,” I admi

Chapter 29: The ultrasound

I woke up to same “get dressed in ten, we are going to the hospital”. I wondered when it’ll ever end.The hospital’s private wing felt colder than usual. Doctor Cole was already there. He greeted us with a polite nod, but I caught the slight widening of his eyes when he saw me. Something in his posture was cautious. Not about me… about Lucien.Lucien didn’t sit. He barely acknowledged me.“Let’s proceed,” he said.I lay back on the examination bed. Cold gel pressed onto my abdomen, making me flinch. Lucien’s gaze flicked between me and the screen.The wand moved slowly, gently.“Hmm,” Doctor Cole murmured.I could feel Lucien tense behind me, silent but present like a shadow pressing into my bones.Then he said it.“Why didn’t you tell me?” His voice was quiet. But it cut through the room like glass.“What?” I whispered, confused, breath shaky.“I asked you… if you felt anything unusual. You said nothing.” His dark eyes pinned me. “You’ve been feeling more than one heartbeat. Haven

Chapter 30: Fractured

Lucien’s eyes snapped to me immediately. “What was that?” Not a question. A command.“I…I don’t know,” I whispered, voice shaking. “It’s… it felt different.”“Different?” His hand came down to my shoulder, pressing, not roughly. “Explain.”“It’s… I can feel both of them… and… there was… a stronger movement, in a… different spot.”, I managed to say.Lucien’s jaw clenched. The kind of tightness that made me shrink in my seat. His eyes narrowed into thin slits, piercing.“Doctor Cole,” he said without preamble. “I want you back. Now. Immediately.”I flinched. My hands fell to my lap. “Lucien… I just finished the scan section. We don’t need another one… please, I just…”“Enough,” he cut me off, the kind that left no room for argument. “You don’t decide. You… feel. I decide. Now.”I froze. The words didn’t even register fully at first. Not decide. Not now. Just… control.Doctor Cole arrived moments later, expression calm but careful. His eyes flicked between Lucien and me, sensing the sto

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