Dulcina Calvo woke up in a hospital bed.
As soon as she raised her hand, she noticed the intravenous tube on the back of her hand: “Dr. Javiera, what’s wrong with me?
“This girl, she knows she has low blood sugar, she doesn’t want to work for her life, low blood sugar if the treatment is late shock will be a big problem, she is still fine, she fainted in the hospital, if she fainted outside in the middle of nowhere, that will send her to the hospital.”
After the beating that Dr. Javiera gave her, Dulcina Calvo felt a little embarrassed and said apologetically, “Dr. Javiera, I’m sorry to have bothered you”.
“Get some rest, hang up this bottle of glucose and don’t go back to work in your apartment for a while, lie here quietly.”
“Dr. Javiera, I’m fine…. I’ll have some chocolate on my own later”.
As soon as Dulcina Calvo’s words left her mouth, Dr. Javiera glared at her: “You’re confused, you’re fine, the baby you have in your belly needs to rest”.
Dulcina Calvo froze for a second, thinking that her ears had misheard her: “Doctor Javiera, what did you say?
What … children?
Dr. Javiera looked at her in surprise: “You’re not telling me that you don’t know you’re pregnant yet, are you?
“Pregnant…? I am, pregnant?”
“Here’s the test report, seven weeks pregnant.”
Dulcina Calvo is not an obstetrician or gynecologist, but she can read the most basic pregnancy test reports.
If the test results are correct, you are indeed pregnant.
But … when did you have the baby?
Seven weeks ago, that is to say, almost two months ago … were, were those nights you were with Esteban Zaragosa at the base of the Ming Organization?
The date coincides with that time.
Dr. Javiera said kindly and charitably, “It’s good that you didn’t fall on the baby with this fainting spell. You should, ah, be more careful in the future and also watch your blood sugar changes every day. When you are pregnant, you can also have elevated blood sugar, so it’s good that you check it early.”
Dulcina Calvo held up the pregnancy test and sat stunned on the hospital bed, a little confused.
Dr. Javiera frowned and said suspiciously, “No, Dulcina, did you get married at such a young age?”
Pregnancy before marriage is a bit embarrassing, especially for a girl as traditional and conservative as Dulcina Calvo.
“Dr. Javiera, can I ask you one thing, don’t tell anyone else about my pregnancy … for now. If they ask you, you can just say that I fainted from low blood sugar, okay?”
Dr. Javiera nodded, “Of course, you are a patient now, and patient privacy is something we, as physicians, must keep secret. But, Dulcina, your pregnancy is not a trivial matter, you must tell the father of this child, even if you tell no one else. He is responsible for the child, and for your own life.”
Dulcina Calvo curved her lips: “Dr. Javiera, I will. Thank you.”
“Rest then, and ring the bell if you need anything.”
“Good.”
When Dr. Javiera left the room, Dulcina Calvo sat on the hospital bed, still slowing down.
She looked down, put her hand to her lower back and felt her belly, so flat she couldn’t even see the signs of pregnancy, and was a little confused.
I had just promised Esteban Zaragosa that I would not have a baby so soon, and here it was. It’s Murphy’s Law, the more you don’t want something to happen, the more it happens.
Dulcina Calvo frowned in anguish, “Baby, what do I tell daddy that he not only has an older baby, but now a younger one?”
“What if Dad doesn’t like you, will he ask Mom to abort you?”
Dulcina Calvo shuddered at the thought.
Esteban Zaragosa is a man who would use a gun to silence her. If he didn’t like the baby and she refused to go with him to the hospital to abort it, would Esteban Zaragosa put a gun to her stomach at home?
At the thought of that image, Dulcina Calvo broke out in a cold sweat.
Dulcina Calvo was so worried that she picked up her phone, Esteban Zaragosa had called her and sent another message.
Dulcina Calvo took a deep breath and called back.
When the call is answered –
“You didn’t eat much last night and you didn’t eat much this morning either, I’ve put lots of sweets and chocolates in the bag you’re carrying, remember to eat them in case you get hypoglycemia.”
Hearing the gentle reminder from the man on the other end of the phone, Dulcina Calvo’s eyes reddened slightly, a little afraid, but not brave enough to say so.
He surreptitiously wiped his eyes and said, “Yes, I got it, I’ll eat later.”
Esteban Zaragosa was silent for a few seconds and spoke warmly, “Don’t be mean to me, I’ll pick you up tonight after work.”
“Esteban Zaragosa… do you really not want to have children right now…?”
“I have enough on my plate with one of your children. Adding another to the mix could disrupt the rhythm of our lives right now.”
Dulcina Calvo bites her lip, so she doesn’t love herself?
Dulcina Calvo quietly rubbed her tummy and muttered, “Baby, Daddy seems to really dislike you.
…
Throughout the day, Dulcina Calvo has been rambling.
The female doctors in the office discussed the gossip.
“Hey, do you know that today a patient was transferred to the obstetrics and gynecology department and transferred to our unit for a joint operation, and luckily we were able to save the patient and the baby with our wonderful hands?”
“Huh? What kind of bulls, snakes and ghosts even beat up pregnant women?”
“Actually it was not a gangster who beat her, it was her own husband, you know what happened? She was unmarried and pregnant, her husband … is not, her boyfriend, just playing with her, also do not want to marry her, her boyfriend also has some violent tendencies, that the medical staff in communicating with her boyfriend, without saying a few words to hit us, finally or the police came and took him away. ”
Dulcina Calvo listened in astonishment as she became increasingly distressed.
Only to hear them add, “What kind of scum is this, when his girlfriend is pregnant? Men who beat women and pregnant women are the worst.”
“No, that patient didn’t want to abort the baby, and the man beat her up after drinking at his house, and every punch he gave his girlfriend in the stomach, so brutal, just scum!”
“After all that, the woman still doesn’t want to break up?”
“There is no possibility of continuing to suffer from Stockholm syndrome.”
(Note: Stockholm syndrome is a condition in which the victim becomes emotionally dependent on the perpetrator and even wants to help the perpetrator in turn).
“It’s almost masochistic, and while I sympathize with the patient, I have to say that the evil is of her own making.”
…
Dulcina Calvo listens to his verbal gossip and rests her chin on her hands as she strolls.
Esteban Zaragosa said she didn’t want to have children but now she is pregnant, will Esteban Zaragosa become so rabid too …
Esteban Zaragosa, if he were bloody and brutal, would be even more terrifying than the man they were talking about.
It was almost closing time when Esteban Zaragosa’s message arrived.
“I’ll see you downstairs in the hospital.”
Dulcina Calvo didn’t answer as she usually did and just tossed the phone aside, her mind was a mess today and she didn’t want to go home so early, she hadn’t figured out how to face Esteban Zaragosa and how to talk to him about the pregnancy.