Chapter 269

• One month.
• One month without Mark and his watchful eye, and yet I felt worse than I did some time ago. My belly still didn't show, it wasn't going to grow all at once and I knew that, but my discomfort, nausea, body aches, and sunken face were noticeable because the creature growing in my womb was busy sucking out my vitality and all the positivity in me.
• If this had happened while I was practicing medicine, with my salary and the support of my gynecologist and an obstetrician, it would have been a pregnancy without loneliness.