"I love you, Ethan. I never ant to hurt you. Please, let make ands. I’ll do anything." But his face hardened, his mouth sealed, his dark eyes looking anything like the loving eyes that once woke up with a smile. This made gulp in fear, my heart was beating so fast in my chest that it felt choking.
"You love ?" He laughed, shaking his head. "Unbelievable."
My heart sank, and with tears in my eyes I continued, "Ethan, I can change. I’ll be better, I promise, I will be more quiet if that’s what you want. Don’t cast away like this. I can’t bear to lose you."
He did not say anything, instead, he glanced at his security personnel, "Take her things, burn them, and lock her up in her room and deal with her as you see fit." Terror gripped as the guards approached, their hands ready to seize .
"No, Ethan, please! I beg you, have rcy!" I cried out, but his expression remained cold and unforgiving.
"Please...don’t hurt , I beg you." He wasn’t saying anything, his eyes were cold and burning with fury.
"Please say sothing...please..." I choked out. The room felt like a scorching inferno against my flesh. I was going to combust from the pain that was boiling inside of . My heart, it hurts.
"Do you believe I would still welco you after you chose to harm my child?"
"Ethan, I swear I had no involvent in it. I would never inflict harm upon your child or anyone else. Rember, I accepted that you are free to have another child with another woman. I always have. Why would I harm her now?" My heart raced as I fumbled over my words, desperation clinging to each syllable
His eyes bore into mine, skepticism etched on his face. "Words can’t erase the accusations against you, Daniella. Aurora started throwing up yesterday and bleeding profusely, and you were the only one near her. The evidence points to you, you know she was allergic to peanuts and yet you gave them to her."
I looked at Aurora silently pleading with my eyes so she would talk so sense into Ethan, but she stood there with her smug smile, her eyes red from crying. She knew what she was doing, and I was stupid to think I could ever trust her.
"She’s lying, Ethan. She’s just trying to save herself. It was so unexpected to have her co to my room on Monday night with fruits, now see. If the baby dies...oh my," she started crying her crocodile tears again.
I bit my lips, enough to draw blood. Why did I even think Aurora would help ? She hated , to the core. "I was nowhere near anything you ate. I never did hurt you, you were the one who ca to my room with fruits, why are you lying, Aurora?"
"Give one reason why I shouldn’t believe Aurora," Ethan demanded, his voice cold and detached.
I took a deep breath, desperation fueling my words. "Because, Ethan, you know . You know my heart. I would never harm your child or any child. Aurora has always been jealous and always sought to undermine us. This is her revenge, tearing us apart."
Aurora’s eyes widened, feigning innocence. "I loved you both, but I never wanted to see Daniella hurt. She’s framing because she can’t bear the guilt."
I grabbed Ethan’s arm, pleading with him. "Ethan, please listen to . Don’t let Aurora’s lies destroy us."
He yanked his arm away, his eyes burning with anger. "Your lies have no place here, Daniella. I’ve lost trust in you, in us."
I felt like a broken mirror, shattered into a thousand pieces. My knee throbbed from the endless scraping, and my eyes and head ached from crying. The courtroom guards watched with a mixture of awe and disdain, so pointing fingers and calling a murderer.
But I knew the truth. Aurora had never been innocent, with her charming smile and innocent face. She had a way of manipulating people, making them believe her lies. And now, she was using that charm to destroy , to tear us apart.
Aurora had the charm that every girl wished to have, an innocent face, tall, beautiful, and a voice that could make one call on their knees.
Ever since Aurora was born, death followed her. My mother died when she was giving birth to her, my father died as well and now she was stealing the man that I have loved for years. The man I gave up everything for.
My birthright to my grandparents’ company, my life, my body had beco wrinkled, looked older than my age because of depression.
I wasn’t able to give him a child, I was useless according to his words. I gave up my happiness to be with him.
Now here I was begging for my innocence. Hoping he would consider his wife, and the mother to his child he would consider.
Yes, I was pregnant, but no one believed . No one cares. Not when I told them I was six months pregnant but it just didn’t show as a six months belly should.
No one wants to believe the forgotten heiress.
I did not give up easily and decided to use my last card.
I crawled towards Ethan, holding his hand, "I am pregnant, Ethan, with your child. Can’t you consider--"
"Shut up!" Ethan yelled, pushing away from him. I stumbled, my belly barely missing the floor. His eyes, once filled with love, now held only contempt.
The weight of his rejection settled into the core of my being as I realized that even the ntion of our child could not bridge the hole that had ford between us.
"I know your ga, Daniella. You think you can use a child to manipulate , to escape the consequences of your actions," he spat out, his words like shards of glass cutting through the fragile threads of hope I clung to.
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