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I gave him a sharp nod. One hundred percent.
Need? Yes. Want? No.
He blew out a breath with a small smile. “You’re going to be the death of me kid. As long as I can set up good accommodation and am happy after speaking to the Principal, I’ll okay it. I don’t care how far away you are, you will see me regularly and speak to me daily. Got it?”
“Got it.”
Three weeks later I waved goodbye to my parents and Delaney. I unpacked the contents of my suitcases into my new dorm, only to be moved to somewhere more secluded later that evening. Where what I endured continued.
* * *
At five months’ pregnant. I sat in a different private facility from the last time, but for the same reason. Pregnancy scan.
Twenty weeks along and while he had pulled back the physical abuse, the sexual and emotional torture was still woven in whenever he made time to visit me.
Which was practically weekly.
If it wasn’t in person visits, there were messages, video calls.
The idea that moving schools and away from him would put this to a stop was clearly a naive hope of mine, one which died out within moments of settling here and I realised he never planned to leave me alone. If anything, he revelled in the freedom away from prying eyes back in East Bay.
I’d technically made it easier for this to continue, but I’d also removed myself from the situation of people knowing about it. Stroking my hand over my growing bump, I’d been doing research. In comparison, I was tiny for how far along I was. However I was generally quite petite and my age came into it.I was going to be a teenage mom.I’d only just celebrated my sixteenth birthday, by myself.
“Okay, how are you feeling?” The sonographer questioned, I settled onto the hospital bed. Adam sat in the chair beside me. “Any issues?”
“None.”
I’d been what research called‘a thriving pregnancy.’No symptoms, except for a small increase in my appetite.
“Good. Roll up your top and let’s get you scanned.”
Doing as he asked, I laid back, and peered at the blank screen while a cool jelly-like substance was placed on my stomach, followed by the scanning wand.
I gritted my teeth as I felt the pressure from his movements, trying to check measurements, all while I had a full bladder.
The sound of a heartbeat echoed throughout the room. Murmured words ofhealthyandgood sizecame from him as from the corner of my eye,heleaned forward staring in awe at the screen. Especially when the sonographer paused the movements, asking a question.
“You want to know the sex?”
I shrugged, it didn't matter either way to me. Not like this professional would listen to me if I refused, he was getting paid handsomely to keep my records private and play by Adam’s rules. Naturally, he wanted to know the sex.
“A boy,” he announced, blabbering on to Adam and showing him confirmation. My head felt fuzzy, as if I were under water.
A boy. A son. Anotherhim.
God, I hoped not. I couldn’t place blame on an innocence and from where their DNA had originated.You can’t blame a child for the misgivings of a parent.I knew that. I just had to convince myself.
Thank whoever was out there in the world that I’d be there to raise this baby, teach them right from wrong. Because regardless of this forced situation, I would do the right thing.
I gulped, rose from the bed and wiped the gel from my stomach. He held the scanned pictures with smugness but awe filled his face, two emotions seeming to contradict the other. But he was a contradiction in himself.
On the other side of this pain, I’d meet my baby.
I suppressed the small smile while he drove me back to my dorm. I was falling in love with a human being that I’d never met, it thrilled and terrified me at the same time.
My loosely fitted clothing swamped my body but allowed me to keep the small bump hidden. It wouldn’t be long until I’d no longer be allowed to attend my lessons in person, he’d already arranged the last few months of pregnancy for me to be isolated and the online workspace to be set up.
* * *
