Goodbye to You
"I swear I'll protect you. I won't let you go through this kind of pain again."
Back then, he had probably never imagined that one day, he would be the one to perform an abortion on me, especially since I had always been so terrified of pain.
He promised he'd protect me forever. He was such a liar.
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Carl came to see me every day now, sometimes bringing homemade soup and other times bringing supplements to help me heal.
"It's okay, Hailey. We'll have our kids someday. There's always another chance," he said.
I didn't say anything. We both knew there was no "someday" for us. Everything between us was done for good the moment our baby was gone.