Chapter 39
“Take the child and k*ll it, a woman like her does not deserve to bear a child and worst be a mother,” one of them said, and immediately my baby was snatched from me.
I shouted, screaming and begging for mercy as they tossed my child on the floor.
They held my hands and legs down on the ground making me unable to move.
I watched her—she carried a huge r*ck, kicking my baby to her feet.
Raising her hands holding the r*ck up, she slammed it down on my baby
My baby’s piercing cry of pain, along with mine echoed, as I jolted awake.
“It’s okay, Leah. It’s okay, it’s just a dream,” I heard Xavier's voice come through the darkness.
“My…my baby. Xavier, they…they… took my baby, they are going to k*ll him,” I stammered through my words, my entire body trembling from fear.
“I’m sorry Leah,” he said softly.
“No…no…no you don’t understand. They took my baby Xavier, she took him. I saw her.
She wants to k*ll him.
Please save my child, Xavier.
I’m your friend right, for the sake of our relationship these past years, please save my child I’m begging of you.
I’ll do anything, anything you want, but I just want my child back.
He is in danger, why are you not saying anything,” I shouted in anger and pain.
I could not see his face, but I could feel his arms holding me tightly as he pressed me to his chest.
“Okay Leah, I’ll save your child I promise,” he said, sounding helpless and that made the sound of my sobbing louder.
“Come on, move for me. You need to go back to sleep,” he said calmly, laying me back in the hospital bed as he moved to leave.
I could not see his face because of the darkness, but I could feel him.
“Please don’t leave,” I said hurriedly, holding his hands tightly in mine.
“You have to get some rest, Leah,” he said again, trying to pry my hands gently.
“Please stay with me. I don’t want to sleep alone,” I said, my voice trembling with fear and it shook with every word I uttered.
I was scared to go back to sleep. I was scared to see their faces again. The nightmares.
“Okay,” he said softly. I moved sideways on the hospital bed, creating enough space for him.
He joined me on the bed, trying to keep his distance till I wrapped my hands around his waist, burying my face in his chest, and I cried once more, till I fell asleep with his hands wrapped tightly around me.
The sound of the door opening along with the voices brought me out of my dreamless slumber.
“Ethan, you need to calm down.
I am so sure Leah must be okay,” Jennifer’s whining voice blared through my ears, and I felt Xavier groan on the bed, his hands tightening around my body.
“Oh my God. It looks like we disturbed them.
I told you Leah must be doing well,” Jennifer said, the sound of her voice grating on my nerves.
As everything that happened a day before came crashing on me.
The ways he mocked me when I begged for help.
“What the f**k?” Xavier cursed besides me, he shifted gently, his hands moving around me.
I watched as he struggled to block the light from reaching his eyes, and a scowl settled on his face when he looked past me, to the people standing in our hospital room.
“What are you doing here?” He asked through gritted teeth.
I turned, confused, only to be greeted with the sight of Ethan, a dark look on his face as he watched me, while Jennifer hung around him watching me with a smile.
“Oh we are so sorry to disturb your moment.
But Leah works for Ethan and I heard she was at the hospital from one of my friends who worked with her, so informed Ethan that we needed to check on her,” Jennifer said with a bright smile.
“But it seems all is good here.
After all she has you to take care of her,” she said, her voice silky and delicate as always.
“Why are you not at work?” Ethan asked coldly and my heart pounded loudly in my chest from the look on his face.
His expression was blank, not one twitching except from the clenching of his jaws while he watched me.
I opened my mouth to say something, only to be cut off by Xavier.
“As you can see, Leah is in the hospital,” Xavier replied rudely, cutting me off.
“Ethan, why would you ask her that?
Don't you see how pale she looks, she just underwent a surgery,” Jennifer said softly, putting off an act of scolding Ethan.
I watched Ethan’s eyes flare in concern as he looked at me.
Jennifer’s lips tipped up, as she watched me with a shrill smile.
“The doctor said that Leah just had an ab*rtion.”
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