Chapter 467 – Beginning with a Daring Encounter

“What about you? What do you want?” She asked with a sniffle, and Aaron shrugged.

“I already consider you my family, and I would love us to keep the pregnancy. But only if you want to. It’s your body, so you should be able to decide what you want. If we are keeping the baby, we should get married and make it official,” Aaron said, and she looked away from him.

“I need to think about it,” she told him after a while.

“Take all the time you need, but also keep in mind that if we’re going to abort the pregnancy, we have to do it fast to avoid complications,” he reminded her.

Three days later, Sara informed him that she had decided to keep the child, but on certain conditions, one of them being that he would open a bank account for her and deposit a sum of money for both her and the baby. She needed assurance that she wouldn’t be left stranded with their baby if he suddenly decided that he was no longer interested in her in the future.

Aaron, being blinded by love, and trusting that nothing could go wrong with their relationship, not only opened the account at her request but also made her a signatory to his business account as well after their intimate wedding. And that didn’t stop him from paying her monthly salary since she insisted that regardless of their relationship, she was his employee and had to be paid.

Soon they returned to their normal routine, with Aaron traveling around with clients while Sara stayed back to attend to the clients at the studio.

When they both went for her ultrasound some weeks later, and they found out she was carrying twins, Aaron’s joy knew no bounds at the thought of not having just one but two kids who had their genes.

That was the first time Sara let it slip that she had been born a triplet when the attending sonographer asked if her family had a history of multiple pregnancies.

“You have a twin brother and sister? I thought you said you were an only child?” Aaron asked after they left the doctor’s office.

“They both died during childbirth, and only I survived,” Sara had said without looking at him.

So he could better care for her, he employed someone to assist with taking care of the chores at home and hired someone else to be at the studio with her so that she wouldn’t stress herself too much.

Aaron also started declining jobs that would make him travel too far away from home, as he always made sure he could return every night to be with her.

Not long after that time, it was confirmed that she was pregnant with a boy and a girl, and Aaron’s joy was full. As far as he was concerned, everything was perfect, or so he thought until he traveled out of town for a quick job and received a call from the maid at home informing him that Sara was on her way to the hospital alone and she was carrying her hospital bag for delivery.

“But the baby is not due until next month,” Aaron said with a frown, and he asked the maid to accompany Sara, but the maid said Sara insisted on going alone and that she was just going for a routine check-up.

Not feeling comfortable with it, Aaron immediately abandoned all he was doing, and by the time he arrived some hours later and got to the hospital where they had registered her, he didn’t find her there.

He called Sara to find out where she was, and she sent him the address of a different hospital and her room number.

Once he arrived at the hospital, he headed directly for the room, and when he walked in, he saw Sara lying on the bed, cradling a baby in her arms.

“Why didn’t you call me? What happened? You’re supposed to put to birth next month,” Aaron asked in confusion.

“I was spotting, so I was worried,” she said without looking away from the baby.

“I’m so sorry I wasn’t here with you, baby,” Aaron said apologetically as he went to her and kissed her forehead before looking down at the bundle in her arms with awe.

“She looks so beautiful,” Aaron said, thinking the baby in her arms was their daughter.

“He. This is your son, Aaron. Here, take him,” she said as she offered the baby to him.

“Our son,” Aaron corrected with a proud smile as he carefully carried the baby, who looked so fragile.

“Where is she, Sara? Where is our daughter?” Aaron asked when he noticed that the second baby wasn’t anywhere in sight, and Sara didn’t seem excited or happy. She just looked dull.

“She didn’t make it,” Sara said in a flat voice devoid of emotion as she looked up at him with blank eyes.

Aaron’s heart didn’t just skip a beat. It cracked, “She didn’t make what?” He asked, refusing to believe what he had heard.

“She died.”

“No. No,” Aaron repeated with a shake of his head as tears gathered in his eyes.

“She can’t die. How can you say that so easily? Where is she? I need to see her for myself,” Aaron said, and as though sensing his father’s agitation, the baby in his arms began to cry.

Sara pressed a button by her bedside, and a nurse came in to take the baby from Aaron, “We still need to carry out some tests on the baby,” the nurse informed Aaron as she took the baby from him.

“Where is she? I want to see her,” Aaron asked as the nurse walked away with the baby.

“You can’t see her. I already asked the doctor to get rid of the body,” Sara said, and Aaron looked at her in disbelief.

“You did what?”

“There was no need to keep the body. I didn’t know when you would get here, and I didn’t want to see it or just leave it,” Sara said without emotion.

Aaron staggered back in shock, “Please tell me you’re kidding.”

“Why would I kid about something like this?” She asked, and Aaron looked at her like she had just slapped him in the face.

“How could you do that? How could you do that to me, Sara? She was my baby too. I had a right to see her. To hold her and kiss her goodbye!” Aaron cried, and Sara turned away from him.

He never received any explanation or apology from Sara after that. A few days later, after she returned

from the hospital with the baby, he returned from the studio to find that she had left after taking all the money in his safe, cleared the money in the account he opened for her and the baby, and made a large withdrawal from his business account.

The only thing she had left behind was a short note telling him that she had come to the realization that she couldn’t live that way with him. She wasn’t cut out for marriage or motherhood, and she wanted more for herself. She was leaving the country for Italy, where she intended to pursue her dreams as a model, and he shouldn’t bother searching for her. If he truly loved her, he should forget about her and consider the money she took as her payment for carrying his child.

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