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I was heartbroken, watching Leland’s back walking toward the door.
“Does Tamia matter more than me to you?” I asked.
He didn’t answer. He just wrapped his arm around Tamia’s waist and quickened his pace. And then, he disappeared from my sight.
Devastated, I turned to look at the kidnapper. “Where are you taking me?”
He lit a cigarette with a smile. “You don’t get to ask me questions. You’re the hostage, remember?”
When he raised his head and looked at me, I caught a glimpse of his eyes, which had been hidden under the baseball cap before.
His deep eyes were pure cold, and I thought he would kill me on the spot.
But to my surprise, I managed to survive for over six months in his hands before the police found my location and rescued me.
Before he was arrested, the kidnapper laughed out loud and looked at me, his eyes full of mixed emotions.
After I got home, I was greeted by Tamia, Sheila, my dad, and
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Leland. Tamia’s baby bump was quite noticeable by now, while Leland kept staring at me silently with a meaningful gaze.
The moment I stepped into the house, he walked up to me. “Glinda!”
Tamia wiped away her tears and stuttered, “We… We were so worried about you. We hardly ate the last few months.”
None of them looked thinner than before. But Leland indeed looked haggard.
He gently patted my shoulder, and asked in a hoarse voice, “How have you been? Are you hurt?”
I calmly took a step back and dodged his hand.
“Don’t touch me.”
His eyes widened slightly. “Glinda, I know you blame me. But I hired detectives and investigators to look for you everywhere as soon as I came back.”
He paused a moment, before adding, “I thought you would be free as long as I gave the kidnapper the ransom and hired people to look for you. But I didn’t know you would be captive for so long… I’ve been suffering every day for the past six months. Glinda, I hate myself.”
I fought to hold back my laughter. ‘He’s so ridiculous.”
“You hate yourself? Then tell me. Do you hate yourself for
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sleeping with your fiancée’s sister and getting caught, or do you hate yourself for not wearing a condom?”
He was stunned, probably because he had never seen this side of me before.
“I know you hate me.”
I shook my head and walked past him, saying indifferently, “Get your head out of the clouds. I don’t hate you anymore. Actually, I don’t feel anything at all for you anymore. I want you to stay away from me… because I’m pregnant.”
“What?!” Leland asked in disbelief. “Glinda, you’re kidding, right? You’re telling me that just because you wanna piss me off. How could you possibly get pregnant all on your own?!”
As soon as he finished speaking, Leland shut up. He finally realized he had done something terrible, leaving me with a dangerous man for over six months.
“I’m not lying,” I replied. “I’m pregnant with that man’s child.”
His face darkened instantly. He paced back and forth anxiously.
“Glinda, please tell me it’s not true. It… It can’t be.”
I sat on the sofa and looked at the antique porcelain plate on the coffee table. It was one of my mom’s collections. She told me it would be my wedding gift. But now, it has become a container for Tamia’s favorite toffee.
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“Why so surprised? You should’ve known the moment you turned around and abandoned me back then! Did you ever think about my feelings when you knocked up Tamia, huh?!”
With that, I poured the toffee on the plate into the trash can. Then I stood up from the sofa and went upstairs with the plate. “Listen up! Don’t ever lay your hands on my mom’s stuff again!”
I was about to go upstairs when my dad finally came to his senses and shouted, “Stop right there! Who’s the father of your child?”
Sheila echoed, “Glinda, it’s just a plate. Why so serious about it? Put it down first and explain why you are pregnant.”
I stopped and turned around, explaining impatiently, “Of course, the man who took me hostage is the father. Who else could it be?”
Then, I pointed to Tamia. “She’s carrying Leland’s child yet you all keep silent about it. Why make a fuss over my pregnancy?”
She touched her belly. “Glinda, please. What’s done is done. There’s nothing I could do to change things.”
And when she stared at the plate in my hand, hatred was written. all over her face as if I had snatched something that belonged to
her.
Then she added, “At least my child’s father is a decent man. But your child’s father…”
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“Keep going,” I looked at Tamia and smiled, “What? Cat got your longue? Just so you know, my child’s father is the best man in the world.”
The next second, the sound of glass breaking echoed in the living room. Leland had knocked over the coffee table and the cup shattered into pieces.
His face was pale, and he looked at me incredulously.
In the past, I always said he was the best man in the world.
I had praised him since I was a child, but it was him who pushed me into hell.
Now I had gotten out of hell, and I fell for another man.
And Leland couldn’t take it.
Puzzled, I asked him, “Why are you looking at me like that? Leland, you’re the reason it all went down like this! You know it!”
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