Kaylee stepped out, wearing nothing but a sexy little slip.
“Sophia, the lights at my place went out. Ethan didn’t feel safe leaving me alone, so he asked me to move in with him for a while. He even changed the door code to my birthday so I wouldn’t forget. You don’t mind, do you?”
My eyes landed on Kaylee’s shoulder strap slipping down–clear marks on her chest, and she wasn’t even wearing a bra.
“Oh, come on. Sophia’s the understanding type. Of course she doesn’t mind.”
Ethan lounged on the couch, shirt inside out, pants wrinkled. A suspicious wet spot had soaked into the cushion beneath him.
He stood up and pulled me into his arms.
“You just left without saying a word. You’re carrying a child, Sophia. What if something had happened to you? What would I do then?”
The tenderness in his voice made my skin crawl.
Pretending to care for me while shamelessly sleeping with his precious Kaylee in my house, even going so far as to change the door code just in case I came back unexpectedly.
I didn’t bother arguing–I just went upstairs.
That night, Ethan suddenly brought me a glass of warm milk, even though he never cared for milk before.
“You’re in the last trimester. You need more calcium and protein now, okay? Be good. Drink it.”
I stared at the milk in his hands, eyes narrowing.
“I don’t want it.”
He looked displeased but forced a patient smile.
“I’m doing this for you and the baby. Be good. Just drink it.”
Then, without waiting for my reply, he tilted the glass and poured the milk into my mouth.
The sickly sweetness hit the back
of
my throat, and almost instantly, my limbs grew heavy. Drowsiness pulled me under.
In a daze, I thought I saw two figures moving together… right beside me.
I woke the next morning with my whole
body aching, barely able to move.
After Ethan left for work, I reached for:
my phone.
I had turned on the camera the moment he gave me the milk, hiding the phone in a flowerpot.
The second I hit play, shame and fury ripped through me like fire across dry leaves.
Ethan and Kaylee had stumbled into the room right after I passed out, kissing like no one could see them. Then they fell… right next to me.
“You have no idea how it kills me watching you with her every day,” Kaylee whispered.
Ethan spit in my face, then kicked me aside like trash.
“She’s a fat cow. You think she compares to you? The only reason I’m with her is because of the baby. If I didn’t care about you, do you think I’d ever have married her? She’s not even worth a single strand of your hair.”
Kaylee’s eyes sparkled with amusement.
13:41
Queen’s Vandas-
Chapter 2
“Are you sure you gave her enough of the sedative?”
She reached for my clothes with a disturbing kind of calm.
“What if she finds out the truth after the baby’s born? We need leverage. Something that’ll shut her up if it comes to that.”
Ethan agreed all too quickly, helping her strip me down until I was completely exposed.
They dragged my limp body onto a stool, forcing my legs apart like some cruel display.
Ethan took photos. Kaylee adjusted my pose again and again.
Tears streamed down my face as I watched, every second of footage stabbing deeper than the last.
When the screen finally went black, I grabbed the pills the doctor gave me.
And swallowed them. Every last one.
“What are you taking?”
“It’s just calcium tablets,” I replied calmly.
Ethan finally relaxed and turned to head upstairs.
“I forgot a file. Be right back.”
As he climbed the stairs, I glanced at the phone he left on the table.
I keyed in Kaylee’s birthday.
The lock screen slid open to a wallpaper of him and Kaylee–locked in a passionate kiss.
I quickly opened his messaging app. At the very top: Kaylee. Second: a group chat with his so–called “brothers.”
I tapped into the group.
What I saw made my hands tremble–the phone nearly slipped from my grip.
Author’s word: What exactly did Sophia see?
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