The Runaway Lover by Kyzyl Mhy (beach read book .TXT) 📕

Chapter Twenty-Nine

Pregnant…

A tear fell from Tina’s eyes as she focused her attention on the pregnancy test sticks that were sitting on the bathroom counter. She felt her knees slowly lose their strength as she read the results. Mix feelings of joy and fear were causing her heart’s erratic beating.

She was happy knowing that there was another life growing inside her womb, and she was scared because she did not know what to do. Her relationship with Felix isn’t even clear yet; she still hasn’t told her about what she really feels.

“Don’t misunderstand me, baby…” Tina whispered as she dried her tears while caressing her belly. “Mommy is not sad – just overjoyed,” she explained as if it can understand and hear her.

Her eyes then made their way to stare at her reflection in the mirror. Seeing herself somehow made her crack up a little – she let out a small chuckle. She was on the verge of crying but when she saw how the tip of her nose turned reddish and slightly resembled Rudolph the reindeer’s nose made her tears fall back.

“Mommy are you not done yet?” asked a little voice from outside the bathroom. “I want to pee,” her son added.

Tina quickly wiped her tears before walking her way to open the door and let her son in. “I’m sorry for making you wait, love…” Tina apologized, but the boy did not bother to reply for he quickly ran his way to the potty.

She then just shook her head and chuckled before walking her way out of the bathroom and making her way to her walk-in closet to dress herself up for work – she opted to wear a beige-colored short-sleeved V-neck top blouse with lace linings, and a pair of white square pants. She completed the look with a pair of light pink closed-toe doll shoes, a slight layer of makeup, and a simple ponytail. Then she made her way out of the walk-in closet only to see her brother sitting on the corner of her bed.

Horror filled her eyes when she realized that he was holding something in his hand. Oh, dear! Why did I forget to keep them away?!

“Follow me,” He coldly said before walking his way out of my room.

-Tina-

I literally want the ground to crack open and swallow me alive. I hate myself for being so clumsy!

I took a deep breath and took a glance at my brother who was sitting on his swivel chair, while blankly staring at his desk. From the dark look and feel of the atmosphere, I could tell that he was infuriated, so the fact that he wasn’t scolding me yet honestly surprised me.

“What happened?” He asked, breaking the silence.

“A-I…” I tried to open my mouth to say something, but I could not seem to find the right words.

What happened? I asked myself. It was supposed to be an easy question, but at this moment, finding and giving out an answer to that certain question seems to be as difficult as solving a problem for advanced calculus. Why? Because I don’t exactly know what happened, or how things happened. The only thing I know was that for five I lived a normal and contended life with my son, but then one day I reunited with the man whom I had a one-night stand with – the man who got me pregnant and gave me my son – then things started to change.

Felix

Come to think of it, if I hadn’t met Felix five years ago – if I did not give in to him – then things would not turn out this way. I would not need to ask myself a lot of questions and feel confused, but at the same time, if things did not go that way on that fateful night, then I wouldn’t be where I am, and not have what I have.

If I hadn’t met Felix, then I wouldn’t have to convince myself that the irregular heart palpitations I experience are not because of some heart issues – they were caused by something completely different. Something that no doctor could easily diagnose.

Thousands of thoughts and questions are running in my head right now, but no matter how hard I try to give out a reasonable answer, it’ll all just go down to the fact that all these things are happening because I chose Felix – because I let him do this to me.

I allowed him to invade my being.

 I gave in to him.

“A-I…I feel in love,” I breathe out.

-

Felix was in the middle of a meeting when he received a call from Tina’s phone. He was in a meeting with a big investor, but it did not make him think twice about excusing himself and answering the phone.

“D-Daddy!” Yohann cried from the other line.

“Mommy is sick….” He said in between his sobs. “Please help mommy!”

“W-What happened, son?” He asked, trying to stop himself from panicking. Hearing his son cry while telling him that something bad happened to Tina, worried him a lot.

“Hush son… don’t cry…” He said to try and comfort his crying son.

F*ck this meeting! I can still earn the money that I will lose. Cristina and our son needs me more. He spoke in his thoughts as he quickly walked his way to the elevator.