Page 52 of Trading In A Broken Heart

He shoved his hands into his pocket and left the room. I couldn’t believe he really did something like that to me.

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Later That Night

There was a knock at my door before it pushed in. Ma strolled in with a to-go plate in her hand. “How you feeling?” she asked as she shut the door behind her.

Betrayed. I felt fucking betrayed.

“I don’t know,” was the answer she got.

“That’s understandable. You were just in a car accident.”

And I was pregnant. Let’s not forget the pregnant part.

“Yeah.” I shifted in my bed, trying to decide if I was gon’ let her know just how bad I’d slipped up. When everyone was trying to warn me about Savion, I was trying to give him the benefit of the doubt. This was partly my fault, too, because I’d chosen the monster.

“I thought you might be hungry.” She set the plate down on the table next to the bed. I rubbed my stomach, knowing that I might need to feed this baby that I was tricked into having. “Do you really need all this security?” Ma asked as she took a seat in the chair.

“According to Savion.” I rolled my eyes.

Ma’s eyes shifted from mine.

“Ma, what are you not telling me?”

Her head quickly whipped back in my direction. “What makes you think that I’m not telling you something?”

“You’ve been acting super weird lately.”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“I’m sure you don’t.” At this point, I didn’t know what to believe or trust anymore. “I’m pregnant,” I blurted.

Her eyes grew wide as saucers. “By Savion?”

“Who else, Ma?”

Now it was like she was trying to play in my face.

“I have to go,” she said and got up from the chair.

“Ma?” I called out after her, but she didn’t respond.

A Couple Days Later

It’d been two days since I talked to Solei. She wasn’t answering any of my calls or texts. After the accident, her phone was crushed, so I had to get her a new one. After she kicked me out the hospital room, she blocked my number. I didn’t know if she was coming back to the house after she got released or what. I think that was what terrified me the most.

Every day, I’d send a new phone to her hospital room, but all she would do was block me on that phone too. I tried calling the room, but she blocked access, preventing me from reaching her. No matter how much pull I had, those nurses in labor and delivery weren’t budging. That was where they moved her to when they found out that she was pregnant, to monitor the baby. Solei was overreacting. This was something great we were building. She got to keep her life, and I got to get an heir. All she needed was to stop pushing back.

I stood there, watching as they removed all the crates from the back of the eighteen-wheeler. Crates and crates of nothing but guns and ammo for Blackveil.

“You need to see this,” Ghost said when he stepped to my side. He handed me a folder, and I flipped through the pages. My teeth clenched.

“Get everybody out.”

“Boss?”

“Now.”