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Dominic was here?

"What?" He turned, raising his brows like he hadn't heard me right."I mean, you can leave now. I need some time alone." I added the last part quickly, hoping it softened the edge. "Thanks for the company, though.""I promised your assistant…""I'll send your regards," I said, already lying back and closing my eyes, settling into something close enough to a sleeping position."Alright. Take care." He left almost immediately.The moment the door clicked shut behind him, I let out a breath I hadn't realized I was holding.I winced, biting my lip as the memory of our last encounter crept back in. I never imagined he'd end up sitting in my hospital room like we were some devoted couple, like the café humiliation had never happened at all.I groaned and pushed myself upright, glancing around the room for my phone.Swinging my legs over the side of the bed, I pressed my bare foot to the cold floor and winced again, bracing myself before I trusted my own weight.I pulled open the drawer. Emp

Didn't the pill work?

ARIA'S POVThe car ride felt longer than it should have, the city blurring past the window in smudges of gray and gold as the morning traffic thickened around us.Tyler had finally found my phone, it was tucked inside my coat pocket from that night, forgotten in all the chaos and handed it over the moment we settled into the back seat. The screen lit up instantly, notifications flooding in faster than I could process.Ignoring most of it, I scrolled to Claire's notifications. I dialed Claire first. She picked up before the first ring even finished."Arry! Oh my God, are you okay? I've been calling the hospital every hour….""I'm fine," I said, though the words felt hollow even to me. "They're discharging me.""Good. Come straight to my place."I frowned. "Claire, I just want to go home.""No." Her voice sharpened, leaving no room for argument. "Your penthouse isn't safe right now, Aria. Ryan clearly has a way in, or knows someone who does, and after everything that happened in your of

Do I have what it takes to be pregnant?

ARIA'S POVThe phone sat on my lap long after it dropped. I couldn't form a sentence; I just sat still, staring at nothing in particular, just staring ahead."Miss Cole? Are you still there?" The doctor's voice came through, snapping me back to the conversation."I—yes." My voice sounded like it belonged to someone else. "Thank you. I have to go."I ended the call before she could respond, my hand trembling so badly that the phone nearly slipped from my fingers again.Pregnant?How is that possible when I took the pills? I remembered standing in my bathroom that morning, swallowing it down with shaking hands, certain it would erase the entire mess I'd made that night.Apparently, certainty meant nothing. Especially when you didn't check the validity of the pills you took. I winced badly, scrunching my face as if I had tasted something bitter.Was that the reason for my hospitalization?"Miss?" Tyler turned fully around in his seat, alarm written across his face. "You've gone pale. Wha

I know about your affairs

ARIA'S POVThree days later.The alarm blared for the third time before I finally reached over and silenced it, my hand trembling slightly against the nightstand.I lay there for a moment, staring at Claire's spare room ceiling, willing myself to move. My stomach churned, the same dull nausea that had greeted me every morning since the hospital, and I swallowed hard against the urge to retch.The nightmare still clung to me, thick and suffocating. Rain. The screech of tires. My mother's hand slipping from mine, cold and limp. I'd relived it every night this week, waking up gasping, drenched in sweat, reaching instinctively for a hand that was never there.I pressed the heel of my palm against my eyes, willing the images to fade.Slowly, I sat up, my other hand drifting to my stomach before I even registered the motion.I stared down at it.I didn't want this. Not the flutter of instinct that made my palm rest there so gently, not the way some small, foolish part of me had already star

You are pregnant

ARIA'S POVMarsh's smile finally slipped."With immediate effect," he repeated slowly, like the words tasted foreign in his mouth. "Miss Cole, respectfully, you don't have the operational knowledge to unwind contracts this size overnight. Suppliers will walk. Production will stall. You'll be blamed for the very instability you're trying to fix.""I'm aware of the risk.""Are you?" His voice sharpened, the practiced deference finally cracking. "Because from where I'm sitting, this looks less like leadership and more like a woman punishing an entire department for her broken engagement."The room went utterly still. A couple of the men behind him shifted uncomfortably, clearly wishing they were anywhere else.I held his gaze, forcing my voice to stay level even as my stomach twisted, half from nerves, half from the nausea I couldn't shake. "This has nothing to do with my engagement, Mr. Marsh. It has everything to do with contracts that have been quietly bleeding this company dry for ye

If not my child then who's is it?

ARIA POVI went very still.A few passersby glanced over, drawn by the sudden shift in his volume, and I felt heat crawl up my neck, humiliation and panic tangling together until I could barely breathe."Get in the car," I told the bodyguard sharply, refusing to look at Ryan, refusing to give him the satisfaction of seeing my face confirm what his voice already had.But Ryan let out a short, disbelieving laugh, dragging a hand through his hair. "You're actually pregnant." He said it again, like he was testing the shape of the words. Then his expression hardened, twisting into something colder. "With his kid. The stranger's kid.""That's none of your business," I snapped, finally finding my footing enough to stand fully, though my legs still felt unsteady beneath me."None of my business?" His voice rose, sharp and incredulous. "I was going to marry you, Aria. I was going to build a life with you. And you're carrying some nameless man's child like it means nothing?""You cheated on me,

Is the child truly yours?

DOMINIC'S POVThe car door had barely shut behind me before Jorah spoke."You look like someone told you the stock market collapsed," he commented, glancing at me through the rearview mirror.I didn't answer immediately; I just sat, staring down at the paperwork in my hands like I could understand the terminologies used in it. The nurse's voice kept looping in my head, her bright smile and a "congratulations"—I guess that's how they give news to all couples, except I'm not a couple; the woman in question doesn't even want to see me.The word “congratulations” cracked open something in my chest I thought I’d sealed shut years ago. Years of expecting this same news with Selena; it was obvious that none of us was the issue—just that the pregnancy either never happened or was simply miscarried."Sir?" Jorah's voice sounded again, snapping me out of the blurry trance I had just gone through."She's pregnant," I said finally.Jorah's hands stilled on the wheel. He turned slightly, studying

I'm getting the baby out tomorrow!

ARIA'S POVThe car was silent except for the low hum of the engine, my hands still trembling faintly in my lap and my heart still racing even long after Ryan's face had disappeared from the rearview mirror.He knew now. There was no walking that back, no controlling the narrative once it left his mouth in the middle of a public sidewalk. Which meant the clock I'd been quietly racing against had just run out.I pressed my palm flat against my stomach, the same instinctive motion I kept trying to stop myself from making, and closed my eyes. Despite how much I desperately wanted a family, wanted to have a companion and a child of my own, this timing was wrong.Tomorrow.I made the decision somewhere between one traffic light and the next, quiet and absolute. Not today; I didn't have the strength left in me today, not after Ryan, not after the fall, not after Marsh's meeting and the nausea and the exhaustion sitting so heavy in my bones I could barely keep my spine straight against the se

I hope she listens

DOMINIC'S POV"So we're not tracking her," Jorah said slowly, glancing at me through the rearview mirror as we sat parked outside my building, "but we are calling hospitals to ask about her schedule." He said it even slowly, like he was spelling out the key words."It's not the same thing." I said flatly, ignoring his sounds"It's exactly the same thing.""I don't want to scare her," I said, more sharply than I intended, staring down at my phone like it might offer a better solution than the one I'd already settled on. "If she finds out I've had someone watching her calendar, she'll shut me out completely.""And what exactly do you call this?"I didn't answer. Because I actually don't know what to call it. But I know it was different from my earlier means that didn't work out.Jorah exhaled through his nose, clearly biting back whatever else he wanted to say, and turned back to face the windshield. "Alright. Call the hospital, then. See how far manners get you."I ignored the sarcasm

Out patient locked?

ARIA'S POVI hadn't slept. I’d spent most of the night staring at Claire's ceiling, one hand resting over my stomach, my mind running through the same tired arguments I had already settled days ago.By five in the morning, exhaustion had won out over dread, and I'd finally given up pretending sleep was coming. It's like the baby knows what is happening and has been sulking at the expense of my rest."If we're doing this," I told Claire over coffee I wasn't allowed to drink and she wouldn't let me skip anyway, "I want it done before I lose my nerve completely."She'd studied me for a long moment, then simply nodded and grabbed her keys. "Let's call and see if they can take you earlier."They could. Six-thirty instead of eight. Somehow that made it easier, less time to sit with the decision, less time for doubt to creep back in and unravel everything I'd already convinced myself of.Claire called to reschedule while I simply walked with her to the car, sitting quietly inside. The hospit

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