His Sweet Menace novel

---- Chapter 28 Charles' expression changed in an instant. Lilith and Horace were shocked , while people nearby wondered if they'd misheard. Charles hauled me onto land. I collapsed in a gasping heap. My blue dress was soaked, and something started trickling down my legs. My belly cramped over and over. "There's so much blood!" Someone pointed at the bright-red stain spreading across my blue dress. "Shay..." Charles, who had been so cold, suddenly panicked. "What's going on?

Shay, tell me..." "Charles, I knew I shouldn't come to you, but I thought ... I should let you know. I've been trying to say that I'm pregnant," I said with a weak laugh. "But you hate me, so I figured you'd hate the baby, too. I decided not to mention it and not to keep it. It'd only be trouble." "Shay..." Charles pressed me close, stroking my cheek, his voice filled with pain. 'I don't hate you. I don't." "It's alright, Charles. Hate me if you want. I just wish you...

and the one you love live happily together. I ---- won't get in the way." I struggled, trying to break free. Charles glared. He looked even paler than he'd been during that proposal fiasco. He immediately scooped me up. "Where's the doctor? Somebody get the doctor! " Since the banquet venue wasn't close to the hospital, they had on-site medics. "Charles, you despise me, so you'd despise this baby, too. If it's gone, shouldn't you be happy?" "Shut up, Shay!

Don't say another word!" he roared at me, hugging me tighter. A doctor rushed over, following him upstairs. In the elevator , I still wouldn't keep quiet. "Charles , will you forgive me?" He abruptly lowered his head, eyes reddening , and pressed his forehead against mine. "I forgive you, Shay... I've never held it against you." "But you called me dirty and filthy." "That was me being a jerk. I said it in anger! Shay, I've missed you.

Ever since we parted, I've missed you so much." It was just the two of us and the doctor in the elevator. The doctor looked stunned , like he'd walked in on a ---- massive secret. Iclosed my eyes and curled my lips in a faint smile. Everything went as I expected. The baby was gone in the end. I never planned to keep it. During the first three months, miscarriage was common. Jumping into an icy lake on a winter night guaranteed complications. After the doctor left, I lay there getting an IV.

Charles came in, looking sick with worry. He loved me but also hated me. Losing the baby seemed to wash away much of that hate, leaving only love. "Charles , we lost the baby, right? Maybe it's for the best. No baby is better..." I said it deliberately, knowing it would cut deep. He leaned down and held me, kissing my lips. "Shay, we can have another baby someday." I froze, trying to push him away. "Charles , you and Lilith belong together. How could we ever have another baby?

"The baby's gone because of both of you. You didn't know I was pregnant, but Lilith did." "She knew?"