I shut my eyes for a second as a film reel performs in my head of all the pieces that occurred. “The place is he?”

“Adrian?”

I open my eyes to search out Rose’s locked on mine. Her brows are drawn in collectively and she or he’s chewing on her nail. “Is he lifeless?”

“Look, earlier than I inform you the place he’s, it is advisable to know one thing.”

“What?”

She walks over to the vainness and begins rustling round. Rose returns to me holding a sanitary pad that would cross for a small surfboard. “Right here.” She glances at my bloody sweatpants.

“What’s this? Give me a tampon.”

“You’ll be able to’t use them for this.”

I elevate my shoulders as I slowly attain out to take the pad. “I don’t perceive.”

“Adrian kicked you within the abdomen, didn’t he?”

“A number of occasions,” I whisper, hating having that reminiscence so prevalent.

“Eliza.” Rose gulps as she lowers her chin. “Would you like a bathe first then we will discuss?” I shake my head whereas looking at her. “There’s no straightforward manner for me to inform you this, however the physician was right here and he took some blood. He thinks you had a miscarriage.”

I take a look at the pad between my legs and crinkle my brow. “I used to be pregnant?”

“Josiah is working the blood work now, however, yeah, he thinks you will have been.”

I stare on the flooring, refusing to elevate my head. Being pregnant wasn’t one thing I ever thought-about, not whereas Adrian had management of me. Beside the very fact he threatened to carry out an abortion himself as a result of he stated I used to be a unclean whore who fucked all the pieces inside a five-mile radius. Regardless that he was the one who gave me out to his males to do with no matter they wished.

However Ruben…

“I’m such an fool,” I whisper to myself.

“Why?”

“It was solely a matter of time earlier than I’d be pregnant.”

“Sure. That’ll occur when you’re not on contraception.”

“I knew the implications, Rose, however I by no means requested to go on contraception, and even for Ruben to put on a condom. Perhaps, subconsciously, I wished to be pregnant. To have a household the place I can love somebody they usually’ll love me again unconditionally.” I take an extended breath. “I don’t know what I’m saying.” I sound like a idiot.

“You’ve been to hell and again. Okay, you and Ruben have been having unprotected intercourse, it’s not the top of the world. Yeah, you will have been pregnant too, however take a look at all of the shit you’ve survived.”

“I ought to’ve been extra cautious.”

“Fuck me, Eliza,” Rose groans as she paces within the rest room. “You must cease being so rattling onerous on your self. You’ve been via a lot.”

“How did Ruben take it?”

“He’s pissed, however not at you. At Adrian.”

“The place’s Adrian now?” Rose’s pursed lips and extensive blue eyes give nothing away. “The place is he?”

“Ruben has him.”

“The place?” I ask once more.

Rose folds her arms round her physique and turns to look out the lavatory. “He has him down within the shed.”

Supply: www.seynovel.com