abel

ult. We'll have to perform an operation on you to bring the baby out." I nodd

s shot with the anesthesia, and I couldn't help

dn't been joking when they'd said..

eat less nutritious meals than was required for my pregnancy. Bu

his house and made me do all the chores,

gretted even stepping

e that night? I could have had a good cry at the beach and, b

and ended up having a one-night

lt me as long as I stayed out of his wa

r of times, I had been struc

e didn't care that I w

s a mistake and a burd

he'd caught me conversing with Junie Via on

gan bleeding and rather kept slappin

ed out and only woke up now..

..

danger!" I heard panicked voices after I felt s

hought that passed through my m

was unplanned, it di

child, and I

an I can

se were my last thoughts as the ECG machine bega

.

room, and my body felt lighter than usual, re

looked around the hospital room in se

l gown and realized that my wound had starte

e was my

e after giving birth... But I had expected to have m

the room in a body-hug red jumpsuit, and my

n't been told the gender. I had a hu

" She stared at me, like I was

you've done t

n with... and just a tiny piece of information.... She is my daughter." Her words didn't make

llowed to step a foot out of the house, nor was I a

he house with a fake belly, which I would have fallen

ey-dovey while she showed off h

ht much of it,

hed at the t

she'

you. You'd take that money and get out of our lives."

pected her to be least generous.

make your daughter's life more hellish than I made yours." He

t I was being threatened

it was

ow by

su

.

to walk out of the hospital under the pity gazes of the nur

prised if Sally ha

liar neighborhood while feeling like

le of the road when I was ramme

ground with a full bang, and I felt my

blank, I heard a familiar yet unfamil