CHAPTER 71

'It's not that I can't remember, it's just that I don't know who did it. At first I thought it was Bradley, but that voice that spoke to me wasn't Bradley's," I answered. 'I was attacked when I first got pregnant," she said and rested her arm around my neck, 'It wasn't easy for me." 'You were attacked too?" 'Yes. By Ethan's first fiancée and his own mother. I lost the baby," she said and the eyes welled up in her eyes. I couldn't help but felt sorry for her. 'My gosh. What happened?" I asked. I had never heard that story before. 'I don't think I should be telling you this. I don't want to drive fright into you." 'Please tell me. I want to hear what happened," I pleaded. 'Well as you already know, I was a maid for Evan's father. I came from a background of absolutely nothing. My parents abandoned me since I was a baby and I was always told I'll amount to nothing. When I first got fired from my job at a cafe, I went to Hollen Tower for an interview." I listened attentively. 'The position was already filled and I made a clump of myself when I accidentally knocked over Ethan's cup of coffee onto his crotch," she went on. We both laughed together. Oh man. What if that coffee was hot? 'Jasmine, he was furious. He started yelling and tried dusting off the spill on his pants. I panicked; honestly I got so scared I thought he was going to hit me." 'Why?" 'I was abused all my childhood life and I thought everyone was the same. But Ethan never laid a finger on me. He had a coffee machine in his office so I remade the coffee. He still wanted me out of his office so I turned on my heel to leave but he stopped me. He tasted the coffee and complimented me for it. He hired me as a maid and his personal coffee maker on the spot." 'Lovely." ' Things went downhill when I fell for him and he fell for me too while he was engaged to another woman. She was a monster. Halley and I catch hell under her wrath." 'Halley and Martin. Your best friend? You were both maids?" I asked as I remembered when I accompanied Evan to the dinner. He told me they were his parents best friends and practically family. 'Yes. You have good memory," she said. I smiled to myself. 'Anyways, Ethan eventually ended it with her and engaged me. She became bitter at the fact he left her for a black woman. Me. His mom never liked me. She was all team Sharon. So when Ethan left for Paris, I found out I was pregnant. He wasn't there with me when Sharon and his mom came back to the house and literally dragged me out of there." 'What?" 'Yeah. They dragged me out and threw me in the back of a van and had the driver dropped me off at a swamp in another state." 'Wait! What?" 'I told you I didn't want to put fright into you. It's not a pleasant story." 'So you lost the baby?" I asked. I couldn't believe Evan's mom had faced such a terrible thing. 'Yes. With all the pain I suffered from the hands of Ethan's mother and his ex fiancée, I fell on my stomach very hard and more than once. Each pain was worse than the one before. If I hadn't lost that baby, he or she would have had a serious condition or some sort brain damage or something." 'I'm so sorry to hear that. That's terrible," I said and handed her my handkerchief. Tears were pouring down her face. 'Thanks for telling me this," I said as I hugged her. Her story had me thinking. What if it was one of Evan's ex girlfriends who had put someone up to hurt me and his baby? Or what if it wasn't an ex girlfriend at all? What if it was the one he is currently dating? Jasmine's POV I was trying my best to lean forward and massaging my own two feet. I've been having muscle spasms pain and my feet were swollen because I wasn't relaxing as a pregnant woman ought to be. After the failing attempts, I gave up and laid back on the large leather couch in the mansion's living room. Evan took me back to his house as soon as I was discharged from the hospital. He said he wasn't taking any chances especially that the culprit hadn't been caught. He gave my mom and Zenia the keys to one of his penthouse and they could stay as long as they like. Zenia was back in school now and mom got a promotion at her job so they both were usually busy. I was officially five months pregnant. I saw my OBGYN once every week. Sometimes, Fisher would take me when Evan was too busy and didn't have the time to do so himself. I turned on the television and browsed through the channels. I wonder what Evan's Netflix password is. I turned off the television and my eyes went shut, but I wasn't sleeping. I heard his voice coming from the front entrance and the baby instantly started moving around inside of me. I sat up on the couch and pretended to be looking at the television again.