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Chapter 51: Sleepless
The cafe had this smell of burnt coffee mixed with grease. The kind that clung to your clothes, even after you stepped outside. Jessica pulled her apron tighter around her waist. She tried not to think too much about her stomach that night. It felt so stuffed, all heavy and uncomfortable. She'd promised herself no more of those double shifts.Her hand shook a little while she wiped the counter clean. Then a customer snapped his fingers right at her.“Refill. Been waiting.”She forced a polite smile. “Right away.”Every step felt heavier than the last. The baby had started pressing against her ribs, making breathing shallow. She poured that coffee, her wrist almost buckling from how heavy the pot felt. The guy didn't even say thanks.Jessica breathed out slow. She grabbed the counter to keep from swaying when the dizziness rushed in. "Just one more hour," she muttered to herself.Her body had other plans.When she finally made it to table six with the tray, everything went blurry. T
Chapter 50: The Letter
The apartment felt way too quiet.Jessica sat at her little kitchen table. That one dim lamp hung over her head, glowing soft and throwing long shadows all over the scattered bills and unopened envelopes piled up. Outside, things were muffled. Car horns in the distance, some baby crying down the hall somewhere, and rain tapping against the window.But inside with her, it was silence. The heavy kind that just suffocates everything.Her hands stayed right on the table. Fingers brushing the edge of an old notebook, the one that's half used up already. She didn't have any real reason to bother opening it. No one to write to. No one who would listen.And yet… tonight, something inside her pressed.Her chest was too full. Her throat too tight, like she'd swallowed words that had been rotting away for years now. Those words needed out. Even if nobody ever bothered to read them.Her hand just moved on its own. Before her brain even caught up with what was happening. She dragged the notebo
Chapter 49: The Godfather
The pen felt heavier than it should.Jessica’s hand hovered above the intake form, her knuckles pale from how tightly she gripped the cheap ballpoint. The receptionist’s voice still echoed in her ears—gentle, detached, as though this was just another routine checkbox.“Please fill in your emergency contact. Spouse, family member, or trusted friend.”Trusted friend.The phrase stung like glass pressed to an old wound.Her gaze drifted over the blank space under the words Name, Relation, Number. The other lines on the form had been easy—age, weeks of pregnancy, insurance details. But this one dragged her heartbeat into her throat.She whispered under her breath, almost defensively, “It doesn’t matter. I don’t need one.” But she knew better. That wasn't true at all. She'd figured it out the hard way, just a few weeks back when her body gave out right there at the office desk. The whole world closing in on her until it turned pitch black. Then a nurse's voice pulled her out of it. She was
Chapter 48: Heartbeat
The clinic walls were too white, too bright, too clean. Jessica hunched over one of the hard plastic chairs, fingers clutching at her coat like she might fall apart, she gripped it tight, really tight. In the room, other women sat there waiting.some with their husbands, others with boyfriends, and there was this soft laughter floating around, voices that sounded warm, almost easy. One of them leaned right into her guy's shoulder, and he had his hand placed gentle on the swell of her belly like it was the most natural thing in the world.Jessica put her palm flat against her own stomach. She swallowed hard, trying to push down that sharp sting building up in her throat. She had no hand covering hers. No shoulder to lean on. Just silence.“Jessica Benson?”Her name snapped across the waiting room. Head turned. She forced herself to stand. Grabbed her bag tight, like it could hold her steady somehow.The nurse gave a quick smile. Polite enough, but rushing it. We are ready for you.Je
Chapter 47: He Buys The Building
The knock wasn’t polite. It banged against the flimsy door of Jessica's apartment, it was shaking the whole cheap frame, almost ready to crack it open. She stopped right in her tracks. Her hand just hung over the kettle she'd put down a second ago. Then the noise hit again. Three hard knocks, impatient bangs.Her gut knotted up tight. She figured it out already. Knew exactly who was out there.Jessica tugged the skimpy cardigan closer around her and She opened the door. The light in the hall kept buzzing and flickering over the landlord's round head. His breath came out in puffs, all foggy in the cold morning air. And that smile of his. Sour as hell. Stretched way too far across his face. Miss Benson,” he said, as if the words themselves tasted bitter. “We need to talk.”Her pulse stumbled. “It’s barely seven.”“Yes,” he said, adjusting his coat as though the conversation itself inconvenienced him. “Perfect time to discuss overdue matters before my day fills up.”He leaned one hand
Chapter 46: Viral Again
Jessica Benson woke to the vibration of her phone buzzing across the nightstand. Her head pounded, dry from too little sleep. She reached for it blindly, her palm brushing the cracked screen.Dozens of notifications exploded across the lock screen.Trending: #SlapHeardRoundTheBoardroom.Michael Kane Humiliated—Pregnant Ex-Fiancée Strikes Back.Jessica Benson: From Socialite to Single Mother Survivor?Her pulse skipped. For a moment she didn’t even breathe.She opened one headline. The video filled the screen: her own hand flying across Michael’s smug face, the sharp crack echoing in the boardroom. Gasps followed, a stunned silence—and her voice, trembling but firm: “This child is not yours.”The clip looped. Again and again. Millions of views. Millions of strangers dissecting her shame.Jessica pressed the phone to her chest, squeezing her eyes shut. “Not again,” she whispered.But it was happening again. Viral.Her body curled instinctively around the slight swell of her belly beneat
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