Six years ago.
Alicia is holding the pregnancy test cassette with her trembling hand as she looked at the two red lines on it.
She's pregnant!
Alicia went blank for a moment, she has mixed emotions right now!
She's happy but at the same time, she felt scared. Scared to tell her parents and to see their reactions, especially that she got pregnant out of wedlock!
Alicia hurriedly took her phone from her bag and made a phone call.
"Do you have time?" She said to the person on the other line with her trembling voice.
"Can we meet now?"
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In a park,
Alicia anxiously waited for her boyfriend to arrive. She's anxious because she doesn't know what would be his reaction if she tells her that she's pregnant.
Will he accept the child and marry her?
"Hey!"
Alicia instantly got up from her seat when her boyfriend approaches her.
"Ralph!" She blurted out.
Ralph smiled, "Why do you suddenly ask me to meet you?" he asked.
Alicia gulped before she spoke, "There's..." Alicia becomes more anxious.
"What is it?" Ralph asked again. He eagerly waited for Alicia to finish her word.
"There's something you must know," She said as she rubbed her hands due to anxiousness.
"You seem anxious," Ralph commented as he looked at her hand.
Alicia looked up to Ralph, " I'm..."
Ralph stared at Alicia as he waited for her to finish her word.
"I'm pregnant!" Alicia finally said which made Ralph stunned!
Ralph doesn't know how to react to Alicia's news. He felt like his mind went blank!
"Y-You're just joking, right?" Ralph asked, hoping that everything is just a prank!
Alicia shook her head as she spoke, "No," she said.
She then took the pregnancy test from her bag and gave it to Ralph, " Here," She said as she put the pregnancy test cassette on Ralph's palm. "I made a test earlier and it's positive," She added.
Ralph's face turned pale as he looked at the two red lines on the test cassette.
"No," He said in a faint voice. "This can't be..." He shook his head and then he looked up at Alicia.
"Y-You can't be pregnant," Ralph said to her.
Alicia's expression slowly changed, "Why not Ralph?" She asked in confusion.
"We had s*x , so, there is a high possibility for me to get pregnant!"
Ralph looked at Alicia, he holds her hand tightly, "You have to abort that baby," He said without hesitation.
"What?!" Alicia blurted out in disbelief!
"How could you say that?!" Anger started to arise in Alicia's heart!
"This is our baby, our blood and flesh! How could you easily say to kill this innocent child in my womb without remorse?!"
Ralph gritted his teeth, he held his head as he sat on the bench as if he is having a severe headache!
He stayed in that position for a few minutes before he raised his gaze to Alicia again, "Alicia, you can't let that child live!" Ralph insisted.
"If you let her live, she might grow up without a father!" He added.
Alicia was stunned for Ralph's words!
She felt hurt and her tears started to fill her eyes, "Are you not going to take responsibility to this child?" She asked in resentment.
"I..." Ralph seems to have doubts.
"I can't," He said as he shook his head repeatedly.
Alicia's heart broke!
How could he say no so easily?
"W-Why not?!" She asked with fierce in her eyes.
"Because I have a wife!"
Alicia felt like her world collapse when she heard Ralph's confession!
It was like a nuclear bomb that exploded right in front of her and it makes her world shatter!
It made her feel weak!
She's so broke emotionally!
Alicia slowly sat on the bench. She wants to cry, but she couldn't!
She wants to hit Ralph but she felt weak to do it, her limb is too weak too!
"I'm sorry if I lied," Ralph said. " I have a family, Alicia, I am married for a long time and we have a son!
Alicia kept silent. There's a lot of things she wanted to say, but nothing came out of her mouth.
She never thinks that Ralph is married!
'She was a mistress without even knowing it!
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Back to the present,
"I'm sorry," Ralph said sincerely.
"Your too late to say sorry, the damage has been done," Alicia said coldly.
"I just came here to tell you to stop whatever you plan to do," She added.
"Stop bothering me if you don't want to lose everything you have now,"
Ralph slowly lifted his gaze to Alicia, " W-What do you mean."
Alicia lifted her chin, "You know that I am a wife of an influential man now, I can drag you and your business down if you mess with my family!" She said with a fierce look in her eyes!
"I won't let you ruin the life for the second time, Ralph, but if you insist, you better get ready to go back from the bottom," Alicia added. She did not wait for Ralph to respond. She turned and got out of the VIP room, but Ralph just won't give up so easily!
He tried to chase Alicia outside the VIP room.
"Alice!" He called and then he blocked her way and without saying a word, he suddenly embraces her!
Yumi and her friends had just arrived at the restaurant.
Everybody stopped in their track then Mica suddenly gasped as if she has seen something unbelievable!
Yumi and the twins turned their heads to Mica, "Why?!" They asked with their knitted brows.
Mica did not reply, she looked shocked and her gaze is fixed into one particular direction!
Yumi and the twins followed Mica's gazes and all of them were stunned too!
Yumi's stunned expression slowly changed into anger as she realized what's going on!
Yumi clutched her hand as she gritted her teeth!
That woman is embracing another man!
Yumi felt like her blood boiled!
'She meets her lover because my dad is out of town!'
'Did she think that no one can see her flirting with another man in broad daylight?'
'Or worst, she's must be having an affair with another man!'
Yumi can't see the man's face because his back is turned against them, but she can clearly see Alicia's face!
She must not have noticed her because her attention is fixed to the man who is embracing her!
"How dare you!" Yumi mumbled with her balled hand as she took a step to Alicia but her friends were quick enough to stop her!
"Yumi!" Mica quickly held Yumi's arm and the twin blocked her way.
Yumi glared at the twins who are standing in front of her.
"Move!" She demanded.
"No," The twins replied.
"This is a public place, Yumi," Mica said in a low voice. " You can't make a scene here to avoid catching the attention of the people around," She added.
"That woman is having a good time with her lover while my dad is away!" Yumi said in her deep voice.
"Yumi, just think of the consequences if you make a scene here?"
"The whole Capital City will know that your stepmother has an affair with another man, your father will also get humiliated," Mica tried her best to convince Yumi.
"And besides, we're not sure if she really has an affair with that man," Alodia said.
Yumi throws Alodia a sharp look.
"Are you blind?!" She asked angrily. "Can't you see them being intimate with each other?!"
"Yumi, you have to make sure things before you judge your stepmother, for now, we don't have much evidence to confirm that she is having an affair with that man." Adeline joined.
" Let's get out of here before she sees us," Mica grabbed Yumi to the outside and the twins followed.