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“I don’t get it either,” Anna sighed, rubbing the back of her neck like she could physically knead the fatigue out. “Dawn… Dulce is already a pretty easy kid, right? And I still feel like my brain’s gone numb after a few days with her. I’m starting to think I don’t want to be a mom. Having Dulce as my goddaughter is plenty.”
“What, are you making excuses now?”
Dawn chuckled. “That’s kids for you–exhausting but joyful.”
Anna went quiet. For a while, the only sound was their breathing and Dulce’s distant giggles as she chased something across the yard like her legs had springs.
Then, so softly Dawn almost missed it, Anna said, “Dawn… I had a baby once.”
For a moment, nobody spoke.
Dawn’s head snapped over. “What?”
Anna’s face stayed strangely calm. A faint flush still lingered on her cheeks from their earlier “we’re–too–old–for–this” sprinting around thewn.
“It was… an ident, but I was going to keep it. I thought he’d be happy. I even nned it like a surprise–wait until he got back from his business trip, then tell him.
“But that couldn’t be any further from the truth.” Her mouth curved, but it wasn’t a real smile. It was something bitter and tired. “I don’t know why I assumed he’d be excited just because I was. That’s … kind of unfair, isn’t it? Like forcing someone into a feeling.”
“It’s not unfair,” Dawn cut in immediately, voice sharp with disbelief. “That was his child. If he didn’t want a kid, he should’ve acted like it from the beginning. Don’t wait until it happens and then suddenly turn into ‘I wasn’t ready.‘ Don’t do that thing where you carry all the me like it’s <i>your </i>job.”
Anna blinked, like the words had to travel through a fog before theynded.
“Yeah…” she murmured.
She continued, “Maybe I shouldn’t be so hard <i>on </i>myself. We were both wrong. My mistake was trusting him. I really believed he and his ex–wife were clean–no feelings, no mess. And I believed… I believed he loved me.”
She didn’t say Leon’s name right away. She didn’t have to. It sat between them anyway, heavy as a stone.
When Leon came back from his business trip, Anna told him. She was so excited that she actually wrapped the test like a gift. Put it in a little <i>box </i>like it was something precious.
He knocked it out of her hands, then he began to grill her with furious questions.
He demanded why she hadn’t told him earlier.
“Leon’s trip took a long time–three months. It was still early in the pregnancy, so I didn’t rush to tell you”
Dawn’s <i>voice </i>trembled slightly. “So when he came back… the baby was already four months along<b>?</b><b>” </b>
“About that,” Anna said, letting out a self–mocking smile <b>as </b>she lifted a hand and traced a small arc over her <b>stomach</b>.
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“About this big, I think. Not much, but you could already see the curve.”
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A tear slipped from the corner of her eye without warning, yet her tone stayed light, as if she were telling someone else’s story. “He said he’d arrange the surgery. Of course, I refused. My family could afford a child. Even if he didn’t want it, I could raise the baby myself. What I never expected was….
“After we argued, I ran into his ex–wife on the way home. She hit me with her car. A passerby called the ambnce. The baby was gone. And then Leon called me–before I could even speak, he started yelling at me.”
Just hearing it made Dawn’s chest feel tight and heavy.
“Why?”
“Because his ex–wife used me of hurting her child.”
Anna turned to look at Dawn. “Sounds unbelievable, right? But she pulled it off–and her child really was injured.”
In that moment, Anna knew she’d already lost.
Not because of anything else.
Just the fact that that woman could frame her by hurting her child was enough to make Anna concede defeat.
How could anyone be that ruthless?
She didn’t understand it, and she didn’t want to.
But leaving wasn’t easy either. Leon went nearly mad–locking her in the room, letting her out only to eat, and to sleep with him.
Dawn’s voice shook. “He… that’s illegal.”
“Yes.”
Anna sighed. “But what could I do, Dawn? I had no evidence. He had money and power. I couldn’t hide anything–he’d find it no matter what. In the end, I just… gave up.”
She didn’t just give up on him. She gave up on herself.
Dawn gripped her hand tightly. “Anna, I swear to you, I will never let him hurt you again.”
But no one saw how fast trouble woulde.
Maybe things had been too quiettely–quiet enough that even the bodyguards let their guard down.
That afternoon, the neighbor’s dog wouldn’t stop barking, and Dawn’s eyelid twitched nonstop, a bad feeling creeping in.
“Dawn.”
Anna came up behind her with two cups of coffee, handing one over.
“I think <i>I’ve </i>stayed at your ce long enough. I want to… go back to Trifton.”
Dawn froze for a second. “Anna, but you’re not fully recovered yet. The doctor said <i>you </i>still need regr checkups.”
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“What’s there to check? Look at me–perfectly fine,” Anna said, spinning in front of her to prove it. “Both body and mind. I’m eating well, sleeping well.
‘And you’ve been watching me take my meds every day anyway. I’ll keep taking them in Trifton. Worst case, you can video call me and supervise.”
She said it lightly, but Dawn couldn’t shake the unease settling in her chest.
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