Although she felt terrible about what had happened, she cried - not for Adrien, but because he desired a child with Elena, even though it was likely not his. He repudiated the fact and the possibility that Valeria was pregnant, considering the possibility of requesting an abortion.
"I guess he's really only attracted to my body. He doesn't love me, and he won't, not as long as he's still in love with Elena, thinking of her as the woman that I really am."
The nurse entered the room.
"How does it feel?"
"My head hurts. A lot, since I woke up." It hurt even more since Adrien's words.
"I see you've been crying," the sick woman observed, noticing her moist eyes. "I'll go get the doctor."
"Wait a minute. "I'm pregnant," she thought, too strange to say out loud. "Maybe that's why I fainted,
