All Chapters of Too Late: She Is Gone With Your Baby: Chapter 1 - Chapter 7

Chapter 2The folder slipped from my fingers.I didn't even notice until I heard the papers scatter across the floor. I stood there, frozen in the doorway, watching Adrian's hand pull away from Vivian's waist like it had never been there."Elena." His voice was steady, composed, like he had not been caught doing anything wrong and i was wrong for entering his office without prior notice.Vivian turned to face me, and she smiled. It was a practiced smile, one that makes you think she was doing you a favor by merely looking at you."Elena," she said softly. "I've heard so much about you."She let the words sit there between us as the implication was there, glaring for all to see. Like she had known all along who i was to him, and what she thought about it."You take such good care of him." She tilted her head, her eyes gentle. "He's lucky to have someone so devoted to him, he deserves that, don't you think?"The way she said devoted made my stomach turn. Like I was a housekeeper rather

Chapter 4ELENAThe taxi smelled like pine air freshener and old leather, and I sat in the back with my hand cradled against my chest, not looking at it.I had looked at it once, back at the office, and that had been enough for me.The blister had spread across the back of my hand, the skin red and bleeding causing pangs of pain every moment as I bit back on my lips to suppress it.I had taken myself to the hospital plenty of times before. Foster care teaches you that early that aside yourself, no one else cares about you. You learn to assess your own injuries, decide whether they are bad enough to say something about, usually decide they are not, and carry on. This was not so different.Except that it was, because Adrian had carried Vivian to an ambulance for a burn smaller than my palm, and I was sitting in the back of a taxi alone, gritting my teeth so hard my jaw ached.Stop. That is not useful right now. I focused on breathing until we pulled up to the emergency entrance.---The

Chapter 6ELENAI sat with that for a momentThen I said, "Alright."His eyes moved over my face. Looking for something, in my face that would give him some sick sign of happiness. I did not let him find it."I'll have Ethan draw up the full paperwork," he said."Fine," I said.He waited, like he expected something more from me. An argument. A question. Tears, maybe.I gave him none of those things.Then Vivian's name appeared on his phone and he glanced at the screen, before a small smile showed on his face.He answered. I watched his face while he listened. I was close enough or the silence in the room was loud enough for me to hear what she was saying on the other end of the call. She wanted him to take her to a concert, the last performance a popular theatre was holding, and it mattered greatly to her.He told her he would be there.Then he looked at me, and the expression on his face was almost apologetic, as he picked his things up."Remember to contact my assistant tomorrow," he