Nathan opened his mouth, then closed it because he didn’t know. And that uncertainty said everything.
“Exactly,”
Evelyn said quietly. She sat down at the table, suddenly looking very tired.
“Then one morning, I woke up feeling sick,”
she said.
“Really sick. I was throwing up, feeling dizzy, and I realized I was pregnant. The test confirmed it. I was going to have a baby. Your baby.”
She looked up at Nathan with sad eyes.
“I was terrified,”
She admitted.
“Not because I didn’t want the baby. I did, so much. But I was scared of what your mother would do when she found out.”
“How did she find out?”
Nathan asked quietly. Evelyn took a deep breath.
“I didn’t tell her,”
she said.
“But she has ways of finding things out. Maybe she was watching me. Maybe she hired someone to follow me. I don’t know. But 3 days after I took the pregnancy test, she showed up at the house again.”
Evelyn’s whole body trembled as she remembered.
“She was so angry,”
Evelyn whispered.
“Angrier than I’d never seen her. She said, ‘You think trapping my son with a baby is going to work? You think this changes anything? It doesn’t. It just makes you more of a problem that needs to be solved.’”
Nathan felt like he couldn’t breathe.
“She said that about her own grandchild.”
“She didn’t care about the baby,”
Evelyn said, tears streaming down her face.
“She only cared about getting rid of me. She said, ‘I gave you a chance to leave with money and dignity. You refused. Now we do this the hard way.’”
“What did she mean?”
Nathan asked, though part of him was terrified to know. Evelyn wiped her eyes with the back of her hand.
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