In a daze, Laney squatted beside the bathtub and hugged herself, burying her face in her knees. Listening to her beating heart, an indescribable fear began to take over her.
She didn't know how long she had squatted there, but her legs and feet started to feel numb. Then she staggered and stood up with the help of the edge of the bathtub.
Her first instinct was to check the Internet for answers. Sure enough, it said that sometimes pregnancy tests were inaccurate, although it was a small possibility.
Laney thought that maybe it was a fluke, so she went to the hospital to have herself checked.
The hospital was full of foreigners, which scared Laney a little. This was even scarier than the first time she was sent to a hospital after she was injured in a mission.
After coming out of the examination room, she sat on a bench and waited for the results in a trance.
Thirty minutes later, a woman in a lab coat came out to confirm her worst fears: she was in fact pregnant. All of a sudden, Laney felt that her whole world was overturned.
"Miss, are you okay?" The doctor asked worriedly when she saw that Laney was shaking.
"Yes, yes. Thank you." But Laney was so shocked that she couldn't even force a smile. She sat down on the bench, not even daring to think about what she should do next.
The only thought in her mind at the moment was to abort the baby.
She didn't want to be tied to Garrett.
Moreover, she wasn't ready to be a mother! In fact, she had never even thought about becoming a mother before.
Moreover, Laney's parents had died when she was very young. How could she become a good mother if she never had one herself?
She wandered around the hospital aimlessly before finally deciding to grab something to eat. However, before she even knew it, she subconsciously considered only food that was suitable for pregnant women, avoiding that which wasn't.
When she finally realized what she was doing, she ran her fingers through her hair in distress. She really wanted to abort the child, but she found that she didn't have the heart to do it.
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