Chapter 19 She Is Pregnant.


    Outside the window, the wind howled violently. Cecilia ced her pale, slender hand on her lower abdomen, her gaze vacant.


    Calvin had told her that the doctor had discovered she was pregnant.


    This child couldn’t havee at a worse time.


    Martha looked at Cecilia, whose eyes were hollow, devoid of any will to live. She hardened her heart.


    “Ceci.”


    Cecilia took a long time toe back to her senses and slowly turned to look at Martha. “Martha.”


    Martha’s eyes were red. Her old, wrinkled hand gently brushed a few stray hairs away from Cecilia’s temple. “Ceci, I don’t have any children of my own. I’ve always treated you like my own daughter. I don’t wish for you to be rich or powerful, only for you to live healthily. If my only daughter wants to die, how could a mother possibly go on living?”


    Cecilia’s eyes narrowed as she watched Martha pick up a fruit knife.


    “I’ve cared for you until you were ten years old. After that, I couldn’t be with you, and that was my fault. Now, I’ll go apologize to Mr. Smith…”


    With that, Martha started to slice her wrist with the knife.


    Cecilia was startled. She used all her strength to stop her, but in her current state, she couldn’t even get up. She was at a loss for words. “Martha, don’t…”


    Martha didn’t stop.


    As Cecilia watched the blood on Martha’s wrist, her tears rolled uncontrobly down her face. “I won’t do anything stupid anymore, I won’t. Martha, please don’t…


    Hearing Cecilia’s promise, Martha finally stopped.


    Her eyes were filled with red veins.


    “Ceci, you’ve already repaid your debt for bringing you into this world. We no longer owe her or Nathaniel! From now on, you must live for the people who love you, for me, and for the child inside you!”


    In the end, Cecilia decided to heed Martha’s words, to live well for her and the child.


    From this moment forward, Pa was no longer her mother, and she no longer had a brother.


    Her only family was Martha and the child in her belly.


    Martha hadn’t wanted to force Cecilia into making a decision in such a drastic way, but she wanted Cecilia to live!


    Cecilia had no say in her birth, yet she still had to bear the so–called “debt” of being brought into this world.


    How could a true mother ask her daughter to repay her with her life?


    During her hospital stay, Cecilia heard from Calvin that Pa had fled abroad.


    She didn’t feel sad.


    Just like with Nathaniel, she had long wanted to settle the debt she owed Pa. From now on, they were even.


    As for the child, Cecilia didn’t want Nathaniel to know.


    After all, this child was an ident.


    She knew how much Nathaniel disliked her.


    If he found out, he certainly wouldn’t want to keep the child.


    After three days in the hospital, Ceciliapleted the discharge procedures.


    She asked Martha to go home first. Once she had settled things with Nathaniel, she would follow her to the countryside.


    On the day Cecilia left the hospital, it just so happened that Zachary was brought there by his father, George Sinir to oversee some hospital matters, but he saw Cecilia with Calvin.


    “Cecilia! Wasn’t she missing?”


    Three days ago, on the fifteenth, was supposed to be the day Cecilia and Nathaniel finalized their divor


    However, after the fifteenth, Cecilia had vanished without a trace. She didn’t show up for three whole days.


    “Why is she at the hospital?”Upstodatee from Novel(D)ra/m/a.O(r)g


    It was rare for Zachary to show interest, so the director immediately ordered someone to investigate.


    Half an hourter, Zachary received all of Cecilia’s hospital records, and he waspletely shocked.


    Sleeping pills… suicide? Cecilia is pregnant? Isn’t Nathaniel divorcing her recently? How did she end up pregnant?


    “Are you sure this diagnosis belongs to Cecilia?” Zachary asked.


    The staff member delivering the files nodded affirmatively.


    Images of Cecilia leaving the hospital shed through Zachary’s mind, apanied by that unfamiliar man. The coldness around him intensified.


    He had truly underestimated this little deaf girl.


    Not knowing who the father of the child was, Zachary hesitated on whether he should tell Nathaniel.


    In the end, he called Ste and informed her about the situation.


    He owed Ste one. She was all alone, and only he could help her.