Chapter 8

• MICHELLE’s POV.
• The moment I set my eyes on them, my heart skips a beat hoping that neither of them heard what I have discussed with the doctor.
• My heart is beating fast against my ribcage as the two of them walk up to us.
• “Hello sir” the doctor stands up with respect, “I wasn’t expecting you”
• “I brought my fiancée for a check up” Nicholas announces and I gulped while the doctor looks at me for a split second. I am sure he must understand why I have begged him not to allow Nicolas in on what is happening.
• “But it seems you have a visitor” Natalia begins to speak, her eyes rolling to the back of her head and her face looking as expressionless as it can be. I understand the fact that she hates me and I don’t like her either, not when she is responsible for breaking my life into a thousand pieces.
• “I was just about to leave” I finally find my voice and turn to
• the doctor, “I will give you a call”
• “Why are you at the doctor?” Nicholas’s voice filters into my ear and I freeze for a moment. He can not find that I am pregnant or having troubles with the pregnancy”
• “I don’t think that is in your place to ask me, Nicholas” I push my body out of the chair, “you came with your fiancée to get a check up done, you should focus on that”
• I am pained, the anger is beginning to brew inside of me. The more I look at both of them, the more furious I get. How dare he ask me that question when he is standing with my sister after divorcing me.
• Nicholas turns to the doctor and with a dark gaze, he orders.
• “Can you give us a little time to talk?”
• “Of course sir”
• He grabs a small book before scurrying out of the room. Everyone knows Nicholas and it is stupid to want to mess with him.
• As soon as the door closes behind the doctor, he returns his gaze to me. His eyes spilling enough hate venom and I am forced to wonder if this is the same man I married three years ago. Nicholas changed, he changed for the worse and I don’t know who his change has affected most, I didn’t know if it was me or my unborn baby.
• “I didn’t expect to find you here, Michele,” he begins to speak.
• “I am forced to wonder if you are stalking us”
• I open my mouth to say something and this is when a sharp pain erupts inside of me and I clutch onto my stomach as the pain intensifies. It feels like a thousand volts of electricity is surging through my body and with each passing minute, the pain grows.
• Tears well up in my eyes and the two of them continue to stare back at me holding on to my stomach.
• “Are you pretending so Nicholas will care for you?” Her voice filters into my ear but I completely ignore her and grab my bag. I need to leave before Nicholas discovers anything is wrong.
• Not sparing any of them another look, I turn around and make to leave but Nicholas yanks at my hand and I fall limply into his embrace. For a moment I am lost in his eyes, the eyes of the man I once fell in love with, the eyes of the ruthless alpha and what more? His cologne reminds me of the beautiful days we spent together. On those nights when he becomes my only source of happiness and strength, on the days when Nicholas makes me feel like a queen. How did we get here! How did he allow Natalia back into our lives and even got her pregnant. No matter how I think about it, I still can not see a justification for his actions. He hurt me and I am going to hold onto that hurt for as long as I can.
• “I am not done talking to you, Mish” my name rolls out of his lips and I feel disgusted, how dare he utter my name? How dare he?
• Even with the lingering pain, I gently shove him off and move farther away from him.
• “Please do not touch me like that in the future”
• “What future?” Natalia sounds very upset, “why don’t you just disappear from the face of the earth?” She snaps and turns to Nicholas, “you should let her leave, she is making me angry”
• I watch her grab his hand in a sensual manner and my inside churn, I have never seen a most despicable woman like my elder sister.
• The pain cuss through me again and hastily I walk away. I don’t want them to see the tears that well up in my eyes and the pain emanating from the gazes I send them.
• As soon as I slam the door shut, I grab onto the wall and the tears begin to fall. The tears of my pain and my heartbreak all join together to fall off my cheeks. At a time like this, I wish my mother was alive, she would have held me to her bosom and told me everything will be fine.
• “Ma’am” a nurse walks up to me, “are you okay?”
• “Yes” I lie through the skin of my teeth, my voice as low as it can be so no one hears me.
• Flashing her a false smile, I slowly make my way out of the hospital towards the entrance.
• I am thinking of getting a small apartment for now since I can not keep staying at the hotel. It is overly expensive and I am too angry and proud to take the alimony from Nicholas. I don’t want him to ever think that I depend on him, I am going to make a life for myself without his help.
• Just as I try to flag down a taxi, a blue Audi comes to an abrupt stop in front of me and due to the intensity of its noise, I immediately feel dizzy and everything goes pitch black.