Chapter 28: Pregnancy

"I still remember, five or six years ago... I was pregnant. That was when he found out he couldn't have children. So he decided the baby I was carrying wasn't his. He punched and kicked me, and the last kick landed on my stomach. The baby..." A deep dread flickered in Briana Lyson's eyes. She began to tremble, a fine shiver running through her. Every time she revisited that memory, a bone-deep pain seized her. "I didn't cheat on him. I didn't. That child was really his. Somehow, later, he became...