The Delivery I Scheduled, The Love I Ended Chapter 05

The Delivery I Scheduled, The Love I Ended Chapter 05

I sat up, turned off my phone, and placed it on the nightstand.

“I’m ready.”

The surgical lights were painfully bright.

I lay on the cold table and watched blurred figures reflected above me.

Anesthetic entered through the IV.

The doctor’s voice sounded distant.

“Relax and take a deep breath.”

A dull pain spread through my lower abdomen.

I closed my eyes as the life inside me slowly disappeared.

At twenty-four weeks, the baby had already moved.

He had kicked me countless times at night, reminding me that he existed.

I remembered every quiet night when I placed Ethan’s hand over the movement and waited for him

to feel what I felt. Too often, his phone rang and Serena pulled his attention away.

Now I was ending that life myself.

Every movement I remembered made the choice heavier, but I could not give him a father who

treated his mother as someone to hide.

I did not sob, but tears filled my eyes as I bit my lip.

I lost track of time.

The voices around me faded as the anesthesia took hold.[the decision remained painfully clearAI

式总结]

When the procedure was over, I was wheeled back to my room.[staff returned me to the hospital

room不自然】

My whole body ached, and I could barely move.[“7”. I

The physical weakness was immediate, but the certainty behind my decision remained.

My mother sat beside the bed with swollen eyes.

She held my hand and cried without speaking.

She had supported my decision, yet the loss still wounded her as a mother and grandmother.

I forced a weak smile.

“Mom, I’m all right.”

I turned on the phone.

Dozens of missed calls and messages covered the screen.

Every one came from Ethan.

Ethan: [Where are you? Why aren’t you home?]

Ethan: [Your mother said you weren’t staying there. Where did you go?]

Ethan: [Mallory, this has gone far enough. Call me. Now.][]

His anger almost made me laugh.

Whenever something moved beyond his control, Ethan blamed me.

I called him.

He answered after one ring.

He had apparently kept the phone in his hand, waiting for me to surrender first.

“You’ve got some nerve ignoring my calls and disappearing like this.”[learned how to disappeari

像中文“长本事了,敢玩失踪”]

His shouting hurt my ears.

“What do you need?”

My voice was weak.

He paused.

“Why do you sound like that? Are you sick?”

A trace of concern entered his voice.[T]

“No.”

“Then tell me where you are. I’ll pick you up.’

“That isn’t necessary.”

I looked through the window at the dark sky.

“Ethan, I want a divorce.”

Silence followed.

Then he laughed coldly.

“You still haven’t finished this?”

“You threatened me with divorce yesterday, and now you’re doing it again.”[]

“Do you think this will make me pay attention?”

His words turned cruel.

“You’re six months pregnant. If you leave me, where will you go?”

“Who do you think is going to want a divorced woman with a baby in tow?”[]

He relied on the pregnancy as proof that I remained trapped, never imagining I would remove the

last connection between us.

Each sentence should have cut me.

I no longer felt it.

“There isn’t a child anymore.”

His voice tightened instantly.

“What does that mean?”

“I ended the pregnancy.”

For the first time since the gala, every trace of impatience vanished from his voice.

Something shattered on the other end of the line.[on his end of the call]

His breathing turned ragged.[i]

“Say that again.”

“What did you do to our child?”