After her heart was shattered due to her lover's decision to marry the director's daughter at their workplace, Hayle, an obstetrician, is determined to win back her former lover by implanting Lucas's embryo into her womb. But disaster strikes when the seed is accidentally swapped, and Hayle must come to terms with the fact that she is pregnant with an unknown man's child. Amidst her dilemma of whether to continue her pregnancy or terminate it, Hayle must confront the mysterious man who claims to be the father of the baby she is carrying. Another issue is that the man is unhappy that she is pregnant with his child. "Who are you?" Hayle's eyes darted around as she saw the figure of the man in front of her. "If you dare to do anything to my baby inside your womb, you will know who I am!" The voice, like the wind in winter, left Hayle frozen in place. Her lips trembled uncontrollably. "Al-alright."
"Ow! Slow down!" Hayle bit her lip as she gripped the clothes she was wearing. Her anxious face mixed with fear, holding back embarrassment on the bed with her legs wide open. This was the first time she posed like this.
"No need to be too tense, you've done this many times before." A man seemed to smile rather cunningly as he looked at Hayle's still furrowed face.
"Yes, but it's not me experiencing it firsthand," she said somewhat curtly. "Can you do it quickly, Jacob?" Hayle raised her head, trying to look towards the man performing his duty, ensuring he was doing it correctly.
"Patience, Miss Hayle. I also have to be careful." The man sounded quite calm.
"But haven't you done this many times before?" Hayle stared at the unadorned white ceiling. The coldness of the room made her shiver to the point where she had to clamp her lips to hide her chattering teeth. Contrary to before, this place used to be somewhere she frequented.
"Yes, I have done it many times. But not for a virgin." Jacob stood and looked at Hayle's still silent face. "Hayle, I ask you again, are you sure you want to do all this?" He peered to fully see the woman's expression, her body may be in this room, but her mind and heart wandered, far away from this place.
Those beautiful brown eyes gazed back at the man who seemed to look at her with sympathetic eyes between his legs. Somehow her tears flowed freely and her chest tightened. Perhaps it was the effect of the painkillers flowing in her blood. She tried to think of it that way. Even though she knew that wasn't what caused it.
She had to do it. There was no other way. This was the only way she could regain the love of Lucas, her former fiancé who had been with her for 11 years. But, three months ago, he decided to end it, then within a week he announced his engagement to the director's daughter where Lucas and Hayle worked. It was all a reality that still felt like a dream to Hayle.
"Yes! I'm sure. After one month of enduring painful injections. I can't just stop. Just do it quickly." Hayle said weakly. As if her throat had just been choked by something.
Jacob focused his gaze again on the woman's sorrowful face. He took a deep breath, if he wasn't close friends with this woman. He wouldn't want to do something that actually violated his code of ethics.
"You can. You still have a choice, Hayle. Being left by him doesn't mean the sky is falling." Jacob returned to sit in his examination chair. Looking towards his two nurses while nodding slowly. A sign that the procedure would be done soon.
Yes! For Hayle, when Lucas walked away from her life. Her whole world crumbled, the sunshine seemed to be taken away by the man, leaving her in an endless storm. Engulfed in grief and drowned in the pain of a broken heart. Her days were no longer passionate. They had no purpose.
She had become too dependent on him. For a woman who was alone in the world, finding true love and having Vang accompany her through difficult times, growing together, navigating the turbulent world with all its ups and downs. He was everything to Hayle. Her first love that she hoped would be her everlasting love. Eleven years together, how could Hayle let him go just like that especially when they were about to get married?
"Once again, you don't have to do this, Hayle. If you want to have a child from that bastard! why not just sleep with him directly?" Jacob tried to hold back his emotions. Who knows, can love make people this foolish. It's already clear that he was openly betrayed, yet this woman still wants to be with someone like him. Love does make people blind, deaf, and foolish. That's why he vowed not to involve himself in such matters. He was comfortable enough with himself.
"Yes, I have to do it." Hayle sobbed harder upon hearing Jacob's words. She didn't really want to do this, but...
"You're surrendering your virginity to this scalpel. Truly wasting the most important thing for you." Jacob reluctantly proceeded. Tearing the woman's hymen in front of him so he could insert another instrument to create a pathway for insemination.
"I regret it. Maybe that's why he left me."
"Regret what?! Regret not letting him sleep with you for 11 years?! Why regret that? It's the greatest thing I know! You made yourself valuable, Hayle, unlike... Ah! I don't want to mention her name. I'm sure he seduced her with such things and Lucas, I'll say it again, he's not worthy of you. You were about to get married soon, but he chose that woman!" Jacob couldn't hold back anymore. As a friend who understands the path of this woman's life, he knows her qualities. Unfortunately, Jacob feels he is Asexual. Someone who has no interest in men or women.
Hayle took a deep breath, then looked back at her friend. "Jacob, just do it."
"Hah! Alright! Hold on, it might sting a bit. I'll widen the entrance with a speculum." Jacob finally started the procedure to perform artificial insemination by inserting a catheter directly into Hayle's womb.
Hayle squeezed her clothes tighter, trying to endure the pain of feeling something invasive entering her body. It didn't actually hurt much because half of her body had been given painkillers. It just felt strange to her as she had never had anything enter her body before.
"Done!" Jacob's voice sounded loud as he stood up and removed his gloves. "You know what to do, right? Just wait four weeks to see if this works or not."
"It has to work!" Hayle's eyes stared at Jacob, who took a deep breath and exhaled shortly. He has long known how ambitious this woman is.
"You know the success rate of artificial insemination is only 37.9 percent. It doesn't even come close to 50 percent, so what if it doesn't work?" Jacob looked at the woman who had ruined her life just for a man who wasn't worthy at all. It's pathetic.
"We'll try again. We'll try with IVF." Hayle looked away. She didn't want to see the scornful look from her colleague.
"You're crazy, Hayle! Totally crazy! What makes you so sure that if you get pregnant with Lucas's child, he will cancel his marriage to Sonia and marry you? That man has been using you all this time, when he has a mountain of gold elsewhere, he'll jump from you."
"Because I know Lucas loves children very much. He won't refuse and will come back to me." Hayle stood firm in her stance. Hoping desperately that it would align with her thoughts.
She would do anything to get her man back. Even if it meant tearing her virginity on the operating table. She believed Lucas would come back to her! That man! Hayle was even out of words.
"Well, seeing your determination so strong. I sincerely hope your efforts succeed even though I still don't like that man. By the way, everything is done. You'll be taken to the recovery room soon. I'll get ready first." Jacob smiled sweetly at his friend. Patting Hayle's shoulder, which was just covered by the nurse who had assisted in the insemination procedure.
Hayle just nodded quietly, smiling sweetly. "Thank you."
"You're welcome." Jacob walked away from his special room in his insemination clinic. He stopped for a moment at the sink outside the room to wash his hands, a mandatory procedure before and after performing a procedure. And suddenly he was attracted by the behavior of one of his nurses who quickly approached him.
"Doctor?! Has Miss Hayle's procedure been completed?" the nurse asked, her face pale and her breath ragged.
"Yes, of course! It's just finished." Jacob furrowed his brow, looking at the nurse who appeared visibly troubled. As if she was cursing herself. "What's the matter?" Jacob asked, curious why his nurse was behaving like this?
The nurse seemed quite afraid to say it. But, reluctantly, she had to say it. She approached Jacob, who seemed to understand the movements of his nurse who approached to whisper.
"Doctor, it seems that the sperm samples got mixed up."
"WHAT!!!" Jacob's voice filled the entire corridor of the clinic, and his face immediately contorted. How could this happen, and unlucky for him, why did it have to be in his hands and also involving his friend?
Damn it! What should he do now?
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My name is Katia, and I am just trying to survive until my fated mate arrives. Which may be easier said than done. Rejectection is the last straw. Whispering my acceptance of his rejection. I run through the pack house, out across the manicured lawn into the forest. "I'm sorry, my sweet girl," I say to my wolf. I'm sorry you have been stuck with me and have had to suffer everything I have. She whispers," it's not your fault, Katia. We came to a cliff with a waterfall. The hurt keeps pounding at me. I need it to stop. My sweet girl, and I just want peace, I keep running and leap off the cliff. Spreading my arms wide, with tears streaming down my face, I fall, not making a sound, waiting for sweet oblivion where we feel nothing ever again. "I love you, my sweet girl! Until we meet again, "My wolf replied just before we hit the water, "I love you too, Katia. I have never regretted a moment with you." The Snow Moon pack is having their last barbecue of the summer next to the waterfall on their land. The adults are laughing and joking while watching the pups play. The alpha, beta, and gamma are swimming with some of the older children and playing a game of Marco Polo. Someone yells, "Oh my goddess, someone just jumped over the waterfall!" Everyone is frozen as they watch what looks to be a child falling arms spread wide, no one makes a sound. The small body hits the water like a plane crashing into the side of a mountain. The alpha, beta, and gamma, spring into action, swimming towards the area the person went under. The alpha is screaming his wolf is going crazy repeating, "Find her. Find her...find her!" They dive and the beta surfaces with a small person in his arms. Alpha takes the girl from his beta, laying her on the ground. The men are shocked by what they see. She is covered in scars and injuries. Her body is twisted and broken. The Beta asks, "Who could have done this to someone so defenseless?" Alpha drops to his knees, repeating, "MATE...MATE...MATE!"
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After a heated confrontation with her husband and mistress, Brianna was pushed down to stairs. She thought she would die but when she woke up again, she realized that she traveled back two years ago, when it was not late for her to correct her path. The first thing she needed to do when she was reborn was divorce that scum. She saved from the darkest time but he lied to her and murdered her in the end. This time, she would not repeat the same mistakes anymore. She would bring the glory of her family back and make those people who betrayed her pay the price! However, in the process of climbing up to the peak of her career, she met a very intimidating and handsome man who kept on messing with her head through his bold attitude. Brianna doesn't want to be involved with another man again, for she has proven to herself that they will just drag her down, but her constant incidents with him are slowly breaking the wall she built to protect her heart. Brianna will surely choose her career over a man this time, but it's possible to choose both, right? What if he hurt her too? No! She won't risk it but. "You have to run away from me, Bree. Coz I'm done running away, I'll chase you now."