Alicia POV
‘Let’s get a divorce after you give birth’ his words ring in my head for the umpteenth time as I drive down the road, and I can’t just help the excitement that fills my heart, because that is exactly what I have been looking forward to. I mean, I don’t even love him, so what should I be doing with him?
Well, how was my acting back there? It was top-notch, yeah? Well, I loved it too.
I drive into the hospital minutes later and pull over at the parking lot before I head to the doctor’s office. I contacted my secret doctor earlier and asked for an abortion, which will be done this night. It’ll be nice to have a new headline on the internet that I lost my baby because of the scandal, yeah? Well, I guess everything is going to end soon, and we will all go our separate ways. I will finally be with my sweetheart forever.
Not long after I went into the theatre, the abortion was done, and I left the hospital as if nothing happened since I’m strong. The doctor made sure I was perfectly ok before I left.
I drive to the bar and set to drink myself to a stupor. I mean, that is the only way to make this sweeter. ‘After the incident that sparked reaction on the internet today, Mrs. Maxwell Dante drank herself to a stupor and ended up losing her baby’ how is that headline because I love the sound of it. Let’s see how he will survive after this.
After having a couple of glasses of wine, I finally become tipsy, and I barely know what I am doing. Yes, I know I can’t handle alcohol. I spill secrets when I’m drunk, and that is exactly why I came here to drink myself to a stupor.
It didn’t take me much time before I passed out.
My head hurts as I try to open my eyes, but the ray of sunlight makes me shut them back again.
I manage to open my eyes minutes later, and I find myself laying on the hospital bed.
“Are you ok, Alicia? Are you seeing me?” Max tower over me with a worried look on his face, and I know that my plan already worked.
“What happened to me? Why am I here? What happened?” I ask, pretending not to know what happened, because why the hell shouldn’t I?
“Calm down, please. You will be fine,” He assures me, and I watch him sit on the chair beside the bed, having a gloomy expression on.
“What happened?” I ask him, and he sighs briefly.
“I’m sorry, Mrs. Maxwell, but you lost your baby as a result of excessive alcohol and stress,” The doctor breaks the news to me, and I remain silent for a while, preparing the next drama to act. I mean, I need to make this look real.
“Wh… what… what did you say?” I stutter as I sit up on the bed, refusing help from Max. I tilt my head to look at the doctor, and he sighs briefly.
“I’m sorry, but it was already too late before you were taken here, so we couldn’t save the baby,” He explains to me, and I slowly clench my fingers tightly around the duvet on my body, tears welled up in my eyes as I stare into space like the saddest news has just been broken to me. Who cares about a baby from this bastard that I don’t even have any feelings for?
“No… no… You have to do something, doc… I can’t just lose my baby like this… You have to bring my baby back,” I try to stand up from the bed, but I feel slight pain in my abdomen, so I remain on the bed.
“You have to calm down, Mrs. Maxwell. You need rest now if you don’t want to put yourself through another trouble,” The doctor says to me, and I scoff.
“Alicia…” Max tries to touch me, but the look I cast him makes him withdraw his hand.
“What? Are you happy now? This is what you wanted to happen, isn’t it? What the hell did you two did to me? What the hell did you do to my baby?” Tears stream down my cheeks as I yell at him.
“I’m sorry this has to happen to you. I…”
“Get out!” I gulp down the lump that forms in my throat as I point toward the door for him.
“Get out of my sight this minute, Max! I hate you! I hate you so much!” I cry out as I pick up the pillow and throw it at him. I keep throwing everything I can lay my hands on at him until he finally stands up and walks out of the ward with guilt written all over him. This is exactly what I want. I want him to continue to drown in pain and guilt. I want him to have sleepless nights, thinking about me and the pain he has caused me, I don’t want him to be able to forgive himself.
Once he’s out of the ward and it’s only me here, I roll my eyes and sigh briefly as I rest my back against the wall before I wipe my tears. My acting is not that bad. I might as well audition to be an actress later, or what do you think? Crazy, right?
My phone starts ringing, and I reach out for it lazily. My heart wavers excitedly as soon as I check the caller and see that it’s from Alex. I have spoken with him since yesterday after the incident, although we talked in the morning.
“Hey, ba…”
“What was that nonsense, Alicia?” He cuts me off as soon as I answer the call, and I had to check the screen again to be sure that it’s Alex I’m talking to.
“Alex?” I call to be sure, even if he already proved that he was the one from his voice.
“Why did you do that? I didn’t ask you to do something like that. How could you do what you wanted just like that, without even letting me know about it?” He yells again, and I take the phone from my ear to avoid his screams damaging my ear.
“Why are you angry? Did I do anything wrong?” I stutter as I feel my heart wrenches in pain, and tears trickle down my cheeks. Does he even know how much I love him? Does he know how much it hurts to have him talking to me in that manner?
“I’m sorry for yelling at you, babe. I was just a bit pissed that you didn’t wait for me to give you the order before you did that. I had to find out about it from the internet, you shouldn’t have done that,” He speaks to me calmly this time, and I sigh briefly. I knew I shouldn’t have done things without his order, but I couldn’t wait. I needed to do something and end this as fast as I could.
“And about the breeder stuff, why did you bring it up? I know you were the one that used that account to say that, why did you do it? He believes that the three of you are the only ones aware of this, didn’t you think he would suspect you?” He inquires.
“Don’t worry, I will handle that,” I assure him, and I hear him sigh briefly.
“Alright, babe. Hope you’re good? Where are you?” He inquires, but I can’t tell him that I took out the baby. I don’t want him to get mad at me. He already told me that we were going to do something about it, so I don’t think telling him would be nice.
“Yes, I’m fine. I’m at home,” I lie to him.
“Alright. I will call you tomorrow morning,” And with that, the call disconnects, and I sigh briefly as I drop my phone beside me on the bed. It’s just for a short time, and everything will be sorted out…