Chapter 2
That same night, I played the pregnancy card and claimed I wasn’t feeling well and demanded separate bedrooms from Ellis.
At first, Elles was reluctant to agrow
It was Jenifer who persuaded him, saying that I needed proper rest for the baby’s development. Only then did he grudgingly agree.
“Jenifer is right,” Ellis said. “I sleeping separately is better for the baby, then we should do it. But Maryan, you must pay attention to your condition. If anything feels wrong, you have to call me right away.”
If 1 wasn’t aware he was just worried his precious scapegoat might miscarry, I might have been moved for a moment, thinking he truly cared about m
Unfortunately, it was all just an act
Thid the hatred in my eyes and nodded lightly.
“Don’t worry. I’ll take good care of the baby”
Hearing this, Ellis finally seemed relieved
He knew that was someone who kept my promises.
Back when we were introduced by a superior, I had fallen for him at first sight. Knowing he was a traditional man, I promised that if we got married, I would make family my priority.
As soon as our marriage was approved, I even requested to suspend all my work duties.
Even though my military rank had been slightly higher than Ellis’s back then, he believed, with absolute certainty, that I loved him deeply enough t comply with him willingly
In the days that followed, I pretended not to notice anything and watched him shower Jenifer with his undisguised favoritism.
The work at the base was indeed busy, but whenever Ellis had a moment to spare, he would accompany lenifer to her prenatal chock–ups
The hospital staff had already started treating Ellis as Jenifer’s husband.
At the doctor’s casual comment “the mother is a little underweight,” Ellis immediately spent all his salary on the finest cuts of meat, cooking them every day to nourish leniter’s body.
Of course, because Jenifer suffered from severe morning sickness, all that meat ended up in my stomach instead.
Sheb
e barely gained any weight, but 1, on the other hand, grew noticeably rounder.
Every morning, I woke up even feeling more energetic.
Ellis was not very pleased about it.
Yet he could not say anything, because, after all, I was still his wife–at least in nemo.
How could a husband justily forbidding his wife from eating the food he bought?
Maybe because Ellis and Jenifer had been getting too close, quire a few women from the neighborhood came to warn me
*Maryan, I know you’re easygoing, but you shouldn’t be so careless, Ellis is young and promising. You should keep an eye on him, or some homewrecker might just steal him away”
Isimply smiled and thanked them for their kind reminding
What a joke: I could not wait for Ellis, that scumbag, to devote all his attention to Jenifer.
Otherwise, if he ever reached out to touch my “haby bump” or suddenly decided to accompany me to a prenatal check–up, he would immediately realize that there was no baby at all.
The belly carried, which looked almost identical in size to Jenifer’s, was nothing more than cotton carefully adjusted every day to match her growing stomach
Ellis never disappointed me. Until the time when the baby should have been almost full–term, he never realized that I had been carrying nothing but
He only grew increasingly anxious as he watched my belly remain still, while fenilor began experiencing frequent contractions and could go into labor at
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The doctor even advised Jenifer to stay at the hospital, but she stubbornly insisted on returning home, worried something might go wrong. Every day, she would watch my belly like a hawk
After another two days, Jenifer could not wait any longer.
She cried, saying she was in terrible pain. Ellis immediately brought a bowl of cream of mushroom soup with added medicine and knocked on my bedroom door.
“Maryan,” he said, “this is cream of mushroom soup my mom sent over. You should drink some. It’s good for you.
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