Chapter 2

After saying that, I didn't wait to see Cassidy's shocked expression.

I drove home alone.

Almost as soon as I reached my door, my phone received a message from Ethan.

[Sophia, a really important project suddenly came up at the company tonight. I won't be coming home to spend New Year's with you.]

I paused.

Then he called.

"Sophia, don't throw a tantrum over something so small, okay? I can put up with your pregnancy mood swings once or twice, but after a while it really annoys me. Can you just be good? I'm working overtime to earn more money to support the baby. If you're going to throw a fit over something like this, then let's just abort the baby while it's still small. Besides, you got called back to the hospital to work overtime too, didn't you?"

He'd said things like this many times before.

During my second month of pregnancy, I had such bad morning sickness I couldn't eat anything.

He got impatient and threw away the food.

"It's just pregnancy! I've seen other people... and none of them are as delicate as you! How come you can't eat anything? Don't tell me you're faking morning sickness to get me to stay with you like my coworkers said? Sophia! I'm busy too!"

A woman's sixth sense told me his "coworker" wasn't just a regular colleague.

But I was feeling too sick to investigate further.

I just begged him to pour me a glass of warm water.

"Where am I supposed to get warm water this late at night? You want me to specifically boil a pot for you? Can't you just put up with it and drink something cold? How come everyone else can drink it but not you?"

"If you can't handle the difficulties of pregnancy, then just abort the baby early!"

Only now did I realize.

Every word he said back then came straight from his heart.

How ridiculous, right?

But wasn't this too cruel to me?

I stayed silent for a long time, finally speaking just before Ethan's patience ran out.

"Okay, got it. I won't wait up for you then."

With that, I hung up directly.