"I'm pregnant." I repeated to myself, trying to process the news.
"Ma'am?" Dimitri passed a glass of water to me.
"Dimitri... I'm pregnant" I smiled sadly at him. "I can't... I can't be pregnant"
"Well, you are" He smiled back at me. He looked happy.
"Don't be happy!" I hissed. "Get me a glass of champagne"
"The baby.."
"Dimitri!!! Oh Jesus!" I gripped my head firmly. I was slowly losing my mind. "Have you called Romano?"
"He didn't answer" Dimitri walked away without saying anything.
"Well, tell him it's an emergency!" I yelled, throwing myself on the couch.
Dimitri came back with a bottle of wine, pouring it in a glass. "This should do"
"Wine? Grape wine, seriously?" I stared at him furiously.
"We're out of champagne?" He shrugged. "You can go see for yourself"
"Why waste my energy when I know you've hidden them" I scoffed, chugging down the wine.
"How do you feel?"
"Horrible! I don't even know if Romano is ready for another child. He's not even ready for Zion!" I cried out.
"Yours will be different, trust me" Dimitri said, stretching his hand but stopped midway. I nodded at him approvingly. He sighed, touching my shoulder.
"I hope" I closed my eyes.
"You should text him. Maybe he can't take calls right now" Dimitri advised. I nodded, taking out my phone.
"I have something to tell you" I typed, contemplating if I should press send or not.
"You're stalling" Dimitri chuckled lightly.
"I know, I know. What if he's in a bad mood?" I scratched the back of my neck
Urghhh!!! I hate this.
God, how could I let this happen to me?
"You can never know until you try, ma'am" He said, rubbing my shoulder lightly.
"Jadelyn.."
"Huh?" He raised his eyebrow at me.
"Since you've been doing big brother duty for long now, it's Jadelyn to you" I smiled at him.
"You sure?"
"Dimitri... holy shit!!!!" I screamed, looking at my phone. Dimitri rushed to look at my screen before smiling.
"That's more like it" He refilled the glass of wine.
"That's not fucking more like it. Oh my goodness! This is going to be a disaster!" I placed my hands on my head like I was finished because indeed, I was finished.
A knock on the door, startled me. I looked at Dimitri skeptically. He shrugged, standing up.
"Wait! What if it's Romano?" I whispered, standing up too
"I guess...."
"Tell him I'm not around!" I began to walk towards the stairs
"Don doesn't knock!" Dimitri said, his voice loud and firm
True.
"Phew!" I let out a shuddered breath
"It's your mother" Dimitri said, opening that door wide enough to reveal her face
"Mother?" I said softly, running to hug her. "How did you know?"
"Jadelyn, my little girl" She hugged me tight. "You're fine. I heard what happened and .. it's all my fault"
I blinked at her confusingly. "What?"
"If I had not called you to come meet me, it wouldn't have happened to you" She pulled me into a hug again. "I'm so sorry"
I shook my head. "No, no. It's not your fault. You weren't the one who orchestrated the whole kidnap" I laughed, wiping her tears.
"Your father said he was going to look into it" She said, sitting down. She held my hands in hers delicately.
"Why would he do that when he was obviously the one who did it?" I scoffed.
"Oh" My mother bit her lips softly, looking at my hand. "It's not Thompson"
"Sorry?"
"That's what I wanted to discuss with you" She laughed nervously, narrowing her eyes down to Dimitri.
"I trust him" I said firmly. She nodded in response
"You see it's a long story but he was once my ex and ... and your father owed him debt and he.. he came to take back the money or any of your father's property or burn the house entirely." She swallowed, glancing at me. "Then we met again after so long. Your father knew he was coming and ran away without informing me. Unfortunately, we began to hook up again."
"And that's how you got me?" I asked, pulling my hands away from hers. "You cheated on Dad with... with your ex boyfriend?"
"Your father didn't even marry me because he loved me but because he was forced to do so by his family!" Mother yelled. "He abused me a lot!"
"Still, mother! You had a child with him. You had Madelyn and you were not supposed..." I shook my head. "I have a bigger problem mum and we'll come back to my paternal issue"
"What's the matter? I can call your father" She sat up right
"Can you keep him out of this for now. Also, stop referring him as my father. I don't even know him!" I hissed, rubbing my face frustratedly.
"Sorry. Please tell me. Is it something I can help with?" She took my hand into hers again, staring deep into my teary eyes
"I'm pregnant mum" I said, my voice barely audible. She blinked continuously. I knew she heard me
"For that beast?"
I snatched my hands away from hers, again. "He's not a beast!"
"Then what do you call someone who decides sells and trap people under him to assert his delusional authority. Someone who is ruthless and plays games with women!" She yelled, glaring at me.
"Mother!" I said firmly. "Mind you, I didn't judge you when you slept with someone that's not your legal husband. Your husband's creditor!"
When she saw I wasn't backing down from the stare off, she sighed heavily. "Okay fine. What do we do now?"
Finally.
"Well, we wait for his reply?" I shrugged, flashing her my phone.
"Oh" She said, nodding. "So I'm going to be a grandmother and your father..."
"Mother" I warned
"You really need to know him. I promise he's nothing like -"
"I said that's a discussion for another time. Stop trying to impose this man on me. Goodness!" I groaned, throwing my hands up.
"Sorry" She sighed audibly.
"I wish I was dreaming. You mean, I have a little human growing in my stomach right now?" I began to panic
"Yeah. If only you had used protection" My mother said lowly but I heard her.
"Same applies to you too. Maybe I wouldn't have been born if you had used protection, don't you think?" I eyed her up and down
What was her problem?
"Jadelyn. Look, I'm..."
"I don't want to hear it. When you walked through that door, I thought you were going to be of great help to me but instead, you're adding to my stress" I sighed tiredly.
"It's not intentional. I'm sorr-"
"Hold on! He just replied" I yelled, cutting her off as I hurriedly picked up my phone with joy and nervousness
What would his reaction be?
"Read it out loud" Mother smiled at me. If only she knew.
My face turned serious when my eyes got connected to the screen. I swallowed before reading out, emptiness in my voice.
"To avoid giving birth to a bastard, I advice that you get rid of that pregnancy before I get rid of it for you"
He wanted me to abort our child?