Chapter 279 How Long Had She Been Pregnant
"The doctor said it has been a month," said ra affectionately, looking down and stroking her belly.
The baby had been in her body for a month. Why hadn''t she noticed it before?
"A month?" Horace did a mental math with a harsher look on his face. A month had been how long
since the kidnapping. Then he may not be the baby''s father.
"Yes." ra nodded, oblivious to the changes of his look. "Based on the math, I should have had it the
night before I was kidnapped."
Then it urred to ra that they did have sex the night before the abduction, but what were the odds
of that?
They had always wanted a baby, but ra had never got pregnant until after that night. Coincidence?
Horace didn''t believe in that kind of coincidence. So the baby wasn''t his, and it had been conceived
during that vition.
As he thought of it, the picture of the four men ripping off ra''s clothes floated up in his head again,
driving him crazy.
Clenching his firsts tightly, Horace was furiously vowing inside, "One of these days, you''ll be paying for
this, Sean Kirnd!"
Sensing his anger, ra was at a loss. Why hadn''t she seen any tinge of delight in his face since she
had told him about her pregnancy?
"Horace, what''s the matter with you?" ra questioned him a little angrily, "Hasn''t you always wanted a
baby? Why are you not happy at all?"
"No, ra, I..." Horace didn''t know how to exin to ra. When he thought of her being pregnant
with a baby of someone else, he wished he could have found that quartet and ughtered them right
there.
And it was so painful for him as if his heart had been stung by needles seeing how excited she looked
as she told him the news.
Horace didn''t want to face her, because the way she smiled when she mentioned the baby was like a
sharp de,cerating his soul.
But he knew it better than anyone else that it wasn''t her fault, because she was the biggest victim of
the incident. If anyone was to me, it should be himself. It was his failure to protect ra that had led
to the situation.
After pondering for a while, Horace turned to her with a stern face, and said in a extremely tender
voice, "ra, what do you say-- about an abortion." There was no way that he would let her give birth
to a baby of another man.
Horace would never be able to face it if the baby came to the world, let alone treat it as his own child.
What''s worse, he would even hate the child.
"What are you talking about?!" ra sprang up from the sofa, looking at Horace in shock. "How could
you have said? This is our child!"
"ra, listen to me," Horace got up, with his arms around her shoulders, and said earnestly, "We can''t
have this baby."
"Why not?" ra asked emotionally, looking into Horace''s eyes, unable to ept what he had said.
"ra, calm down first," Horace tried tofort her, "The babyes at a very bad time. You can''t
have it. If you want a baby that much, we''ll have another one after some time, OK?"
"But I''m pregnant now. Why do I have to wait until then?" ra feltpletely confused about his
words.
What did he mean by "bad time"? A baby had been what they had both been wanting to have all this
time. How could he have asked her to kill it?
"ra, could you listen to me?" Horace was a little nervous, but said resolutely, "Anyway, we are not
having this baby."
ra yanked his hand off her shoulders and stepped back before she stood still and looked at Horace
with her eyes filled with frustration and depression.
She thought about how rapturous he had been during her first pregnancy, and how determined he was
saying he did not want the baby. Horace now felt like a stranger to her. Was he the same Horace she
had always known?
"What''s the reason?" ra asked in a choking voice, with a icy look at Horace, "Why don''t you want
the baby?"
Feeling painful to see her teary eyes, Horace averted his look, and repeated, "The baby hase at a
bad time."
ra felt frustrated and disappointed hearing that he wouldn''t even give her a real exnation.
Wiping off her tears, ra said to Horace firmly, "I''m not getting an abortion." After that, she marched
out of his study, disregarding his reaction.
Horace clenched his fists as he watched her walking away. Could he tell ra what''s bothering him? If
she knew, maybe she wouldn''t be so set on protecting the baby.
No way! Horace soon dismissed the idea thinking how hurtful it could have been to her.
But if not so, what could he do to persuade her? Horace was at a loss.
After she was back to the bedroom, ra buried her face in the bed, crying. She had been full of joy at
the thought sharing the news with Horace, and had never expected him to not want the baby.
She began to think about how Horace had been cold in bed. Was it because he was afraid that she
would get pregnant? But why? ra just couldn''t figure out why all of a sudden, Horace didn''t want a
baby.
ra tried to remember when Horace started to change. The more ra thought about it, the sadder
she felt. Horace seemed to have changed how he treated her since Laura hade along.
Horace would never get cross with her so often or doubted her words, nor would he, in no way, ask her
to abort their baby.
Did he still have feelings for Laura? And wanted to divorce her? And that''s why he wanted to abort the
child so that he wouldn''t have to get stuck with her because of the baby?
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ra felt her heart aching at the thought of that. Had Horace made up his mind to leave her? But he
had just said that he would never leave her...Was that a lie? Or he was just humoring her?
She shook her head forcibly, unwilling to believe in her guess, tears streaming down her face
uncontrobly.
Meanwhile, ra had made up her mind to give birth to the baby whether Horace wanted it or not.
It was her baby and she set her heart on protecting it from any harm.