Todos os capítulos de Teach Me How to Love You: Capítulo 111 - Capítulo 120

The two days before Friday were confusing as hell. I could not exactly say Alan and I were fighting, but we definitely were not cool either.He left coffee and notes for me like nothing had happened. Slept in my room. Came home on time. Made small talk. Even when I sent him pictures, he replied, just without the energy he usually put into it.I could not call it a fight. I could not call him angry outright. But I knew something was there, quiet and unresolved.Cancelling the wedding never crossed my mind, not once.It usually started like this. One small compromise to keep someone happy, then another, and before you knew it, you were giving up the big things too.Damien had started like that.I wasn't doing it again. I was going to the wedding, and Alan and I would be alright afterwards.Alan worked from home that Friday, probably hoping I would change my mind at the last minute. I grabbed my bag, told him I was leaving, and left.Christine had booked an entire wing of the resort for

Everyone started looking at Alan. That unmistakable what did you do to her look.I didn't even know what I was crying about. The tears had simply come, and no matter how hard I tried to stop them, they kept falling.Alan looked just as confused as everyone else. He stared at me for a few seconds before lowering his head, his thumbs pressed against his temples while his fingers crossed over his forehead.Great. Now I had ruined Nana's memorial too."Excuse me."I pushed my chair back and hurried to the restroom before anyone could ask questions.I had barely finished wiping my face when the door opened and Lory walked in."Nora?""I'm fine.""Please don't insult my intelligence." She came closer. "What happened? What did Alan do?""Nothing. He didn't do anything to me."She gave me a look. "This can't be nothing. Something is definitely wrong."I sighed and looked away. "Yes, something is wrong, but I really don't want to talk about it."Lory studied me for a moment."Okay. I'm not goi

Alan tugged Lory lightly on the ear and asked if she really had to fake-cry that hard just to get him here.Then he crossed to me, pulled me into a hug. The tension holding my body together drained out at once.Colby let out a long sigh. "Was that reaction really necessary? That's not how a normal person reacts to a surprise, Alan. You're supposed to look happy. Not almost give everyone a heart attack."Everyone laughed, and Alan finally smiled.We got him in front of the cake, sang happy birthday, told him to blow out the candles and make a wish. His eyes stayed locked on me the whole time he blew them out.Lory scoffed. "Could you make it any more obvious that whatever you wished for has something to do with Nora?"Heat rushed to my cheeks.We poured champagne, everyone raised a toast to him, long life, happiness, glasses clinking together.Just as I brought mine to my lips, Alan's mother reached out and stopped my hand.Colby, Tristan, and Lory were too busy teasing Alan to notice.

No. No, no, no.I didn't miss my shot. I couldn't have. I wasn't that careless. There was no way I could forget something as important as my contraceptive shot.But even as I tried to convince myself, everything started falling into place. CiCi's words at Alan's birthday party. My sudden aversion to Alan's cologne. The way my stomach had been acting up.And earlier, with Cash.My hand went to my stomach before I quickly pulled it away.Could I be pregnant?God, no.I couldn't just get pregnant immediately like that, right?But the more I thought about it, the worse it got, because the odds weren't exactly in my favor.My life felt so good right now. I could not afford something this massive to blow through the middle of it.Just thinking through the possibility had my eyes filling with tears."Nora?"I quickly wiped them and looked up to find Louisa standing beside me with a tablet in her hand."Are you okay?""Yeah." I blinked rapidly. "Something got into my eye."She gave me a conce

Lory stayed with me until it was almost time for Alan to come home.Before she left, she made sure I knew exactly where she stood. She wanted me to keep the baby, and she thought I needed to tell Alan sooner rather than later.I decided to take CiCi's advice first. Before I worried about how to tell Alan, I needed to figure out what I wanted.The fact that it had even come to that was heartbreaking.Between deciding whether to keep the baby and figuring out how or when to tell Alan, I genuinely could not tell which part terrified me more.As if that wasn't enough, it seemed like every pregnancy symptom I'd had suddenly became ten times worse now that I knew what was causing them.Maybe I was simply noticing them more, but either way, hiding everything from Alan was hard.God, it was hard.The cravings were the worst. I started wanting the weirdest food combinations, and whenever I gave in, I made sure neither Alan nor Peggy was around to see what I was eating.Even his cologne seemed