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“And what do you want to do?”
I want to keep her and the baby and have my little family. I want them with me until the end of time.“It doesn’t matter what I want. I will do whatever Kira wants.”
Priscilla smiled a sad smile and nodded. After that, she got up on her tiptoes and kissed my cheek. “You are a good man, Gabriele.”
“I am trying to be,” I murmured. At least I did towards the people I cared about.
She handed me the small pharmacy bag she was carrying. “I’ll go to the Hamptons for a few days. I feel like you need to be alone.”
“What if she needs you?” I asked. After all, she told Priscilla before she told me.
My sister shook her head and patted my arm. “Believe me, she needs you more. But if she wants me, I’ll come back.”
“Thank you,” I murmured, and Priscilla went to her room after kissing my cheek one last time. Even though Michele had my back in the job, my favorite sibling was always Priscilla. She was always good at being what everybody else needed. She was joyful and seemed too careless, but deep down, she was too fragile, too emotional.
After she disappeared inside her room, I went back to Kira’s side. I took out the three pregnancy tests inside. “She got three.”
Kira looked up at me and nodded. “It is good to be sure.”
“Yes, I guess.”
She got to her feet and brushed away some more wetness from her eyes. Took the three tests from me and moved towards the bathroom.
“Do you want me in there?”
“No,” she answered quickly. “I want to do it alone.”
“Okay,” I said even though I wanted to be with her. I wanted to wait for the result, by her side, holding her hand.
However, keeping her comfortable was much more important than what I wanted.
So, I watched her getting into the bathroom. I sat down on the bed again and started the longest wait of my life.
Kira
I was shaking badly on the bathroom floor as I waited for the results. I was scared, so scared. Gabriele’s words only made me more scared. A little part of me thought he was different, and he wouldn’t do what they did to me, but I was wrong.
“We are going to fix this,” he said like this was a problem. My baby wasnota problem to be fixed.
That was the reason I didn’t want to tell him. I had to find a way to escape without him knowing. I had to make it better this time. I had to save my baby from his father this time.
I had no problem with women having abortions if they wanted, but I didn’t, and that made it horrible. The first time I fell pregnant was after Aleksei’s father died. He was getting ready to marry his now wife and told me he could not have a bastard child. He dragged me into a clinic and let them suck my kid out of me. The second time was four years ago. It was the reason they started using condoms religiously. I didn’t even know who the father was but who dragged me into the clinic was Ivan. I was crying like crazy after I left there, and Ivan just laughed at me. He found it too amusing, and then he found it too arousing.
The memory burned my eyes. Ivan was gone. He was not here to hurt me anymore, but I was still going to get hurt.
Despite my two babies being the result of rape, I wanted them. My life was like shit, and I was sad, but I wanted them. I wanted to have something good in my life. I wanted to show myself I was able to create something beautiful. They would have been the only mine.
They would have been my hope. But they killed my hope.
And Gabriele was going to do the same. He was kind to me. He was loving to me. But he could not afford a bastard. He was going to make me go through it again. And this time, it was going to be worse because this baby was different. This was not a result of rape. This was the child of the man I loved.
This baby was made with love, and I was going to lose it.
After that, I wouldn’t care about Gabriele killing me. I would be left with nothing.
With shaky hands, I reached for the tests on the counter and took a deep breath before looking at them. And then I started crying.
All three of them were positive.
