Her reaction and that of the doctor were the complete opposite, while his face was enthusiastic and excited, hers was grim, as if someone had just announced the death of someone. In this situation, one would think the doctor was the one receiving the news rather than her.
Who else's child could it be but Gerald's? There was no one else she had slept with apart from him over the past one year.
If Gerald was with her right now, if she and Gerald were still a couple, she would have been thrilled by this news, but she wasn't at the moment. She wasn't ready to have a child, she wasn't capable mentally. Not with all that she had been through, and the thought of bearing a man like Gerald's child made her shudder.
"Get rid of it." She said to him suddenly with a deadpan look on her face.
His
