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the confused girl behind. And she followed her directly to her desk.
“I saw you get up, and then he left the office, and I didn’t see either of you return. So I figured you were smooching somewhere.”
“And you wanted proof of it?” Selena quizzed.
Megan opened her mouth to answer, but nothing came out. For once. She had not thought that all the way through. So, say she did go in and discover Selena and Ethan together, then what? She realized she had been defeated, so she stood up and got ready to leave. “I’m watching you,” she said. She stepped off and then paused. “And what was that horrid smell in the restroom?” She turned to face Selena once more.
Selena’s heart rate quickened as she realized she must have left the evidence of her pregnancy lingering in the air. But she was as quick witted as she was beautiful. “Beats me; it was like that when I went in too,” she said with a smile. “Is the interrogation complete?”
Megan simply walked off, but it only left Selena all the more perturbed. In a month, she could hide this baby no longer, and with her inability to make as much money as she needs and Megan constantly watching her, and Ethan denying the existence of the child, Selena’s head began to spin. She felt flushed, and in that moment, she actively contemplated abortion for the first time.
As the week rolled on, Ethan seemed to have resumed his normal habits, and each day, Selena would see one woman after another traipsing into his office, on his arm and all over him. He didn’t pay much attention to Selena and acted as if she wasn’t sitting right there observing everything. After all, she had known it was never going to be serious with them, and it was her fault for getting knocked up. So he would carry on with his life like he used to, back when everything was simple and there were no strings attached; except for the ones he led his women around on.
Selena grew sick just watching him, and she determined to spend most of her time away from the office so she wouldn’t have to encounter his womanizing ways. How foolish she had been to take his ‘kindness’ for actual affections for her. How ridiculous to think that by opening up himself to her, telling her about his past, meant he was inviting her into his heart. She slammed down hard on the steering wheel, and the horn blared, but she didn’t seem to notice until she saw other motorists waving at her to release it.
She did, and was just about to drive off when she saw him walking towards her car. She froze, and as with every other moment, he seemed like her knight in shining armor who was about to rescue her from the dragon of despair that had risen to prominence inside her body tower. But just before he got to her, she saw a tiny blonde girl chasing after him, and, oblivious to her being there, he stopped and the woman dashed into his arms. He hugged her around the waist and planted a kiss on her forehead. The act seemed so loving, but Selena knew it meant nothing. It was all a trick to get his way, and she had so long avoided him, she could hardly believe she had been the most foolish of them all. For she now carried his child, which none of them did. Or maybe they had had the common sense of getting rid of him from inside their bodies rather than prolonging the inevitable, for that was a life of misery and less love from the promised suitors who were bound to show up after him. So angry was she at the sight that she gunned the car, and it bore down on them deliberately. Ethan saw it before it got to him and swiftly tossed the woman out of the way before dancing aside. He watched in awe as Selena careened out of the parking lot and onto the busy street.
Did she mean to run him over? He wasn’t entirely sure, and it was then that he got a slight glimpse of her emotions and how she must have felt watching him just now. But he hadn’t known she was there or else... or else what? Maybe he would have done it anyway. His earlier