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Chapter Thirty

Abigail

I’d been home now for just over a week, and life wasn’t getting any easier being away from him. I missed Kye so much that it actually hurt to get up in the morning. I had been to my doctor, who had confirmed I was indeed pregnant and had booked me for an ultrasound. From our guess, I was about nine weeks pregnant, so I had to wait around another three weeks to see our baby.

Our baby. Although it wasn’t ours. It was just mine. He had thrown me out of his life forever. Wanted no more to do with me. I was about to become a single mum, with no prospect of another modelling job and no one to count on.

That wasn’t entirely true though. Chrissy and Lucas would do anything for me. And both Jayden and Mason had been around to make sure I was okay and to offer any support I needed. When I phoned Sienna not long after I got home and told her everything, it was all she could do to stop Jayden from getting all the guys on a plane over to Madeira to kick Kye’s arse. I managed to stop them, though. At least for now. No matter what he had done to me, I never wanted to see him get hurt. I loved him. I still did. Nothing was ever going to change that. Kye was the only man that I had ever truly loved. The only man whose soul had connected with mine. We may have only had a few weeks together, but they had changed my life forever, and I wasn’t talking about getting pregnant.

Did I regret what happened? No. It had been the one thing I had wanted all my life. To have a family with the man I loved. What I did regret was allowing him to push me away as he did. I had gone over that day in my head every night since I’d arrived home, trying to work out what had changed in him on that run. The only conclusion I could come to was he had heard my conversation with Chrissy. Thought I was speaking to another man. I could only assume that caused the “darkness,” as he had put it, to come back.

When I had looked at him when he arrived back in the house, it was not the man I loved. I didn’t recognise him. The face I had been looking at was one of a cold-blooded man, void of all emotion. It was one of the reasons I left. I knew there was nothing I could do to save him. He had gone back to the mercenary he had once been. That man wasn’t the man I had fallen for, which had made it easier to leave. But now that we were apart, all I wanted to do was go back and try to save him, just one more time.

I sat alone in my flat, as I had done since I arrived home. My sister had been to see me, but that was it. I had told everyone else not to come once Mason and Jayden had been here. I needed time to acclimatise to the life that was ahead of me.

All of a sudden, there was a knock at the front door. I wasn’t expecting any visitors, and I was sure I had told everyone to stay away. It was a Friday afternoon, so I was sure that everyone would be at work.

Walking up to the door, I was suddenly reminded of all the times a bouquet of flowers, a letter, or a gift had been delivered to me. My heart started to beat faster as I placed my hand on the handle of the door. I knew that Bianca was in prison now in Portugal, but there were still plenty of others out there that would want to send me gifts. What if one of them started to take her place as a stalker? I pulled the security chain across the door and held my breath as I opened the door. To my surprise, I was greeted by Kelsey’s smiling face.

I let out the breath I was holding as I stood there.

“Are you okay, Abigail? I can call Nathan if you need me to.”

I unchained the door and opened it to see Kelsey standing there with what looked like a small baby bump. I stood for a moment, dumbfounded. Kye hadn’t mentioned that Kelsey was pregnant. I was sure he would have known, given how close they seemed on the day I first met him formally. I realised after a moment that I had been standing there staring at her and hadn’t even said a word.

“I’m sorry, Kelsey. You took me by surprise. Come on in. I’ll make us both a drink. Is camomile tea okay? It seems to be the only thing I can stomach at the moment.”

She smiled back at me. “Why not try one of these? They are ginger tea bags. Sienna and Jess both suggested trying them. I struggled with coffee and normal tea as well.”

I took the packet from her and walked into the kitchen, with her following behind. She took a seat at the table as I started to make us both a drink.

“So, how far gone are you? Kye never mentioned…”

I stopped as soon as I said the words. Placing my hand on my stomach at the realisation of what I’d just said. This was one reason why I didn’t want anyone here. I didn’t want them to see me crying and feel sorry or pity for me.

Kelsey got up from her seat and walked over to me. “Sit yourself down, and I’ll make us both a drink. I’m not going to feel sorry for you or show any pity. I just wanted to come around and check on you. I know how difficult the first couple of months are. How quickly you get tired. I just wanted to make sure you were fine.”

She gave me a hug and started to make our drinks. I sat down at the table, and she joined me shortly after, placing the tea in front of me. I took a sip and immediately started to feel better. If only I’d known about this sooner. But then perhaps if I’d reached out to Sienna when I first suspected, she would have been able to help. I just hadn’t wanted to accept that the unthinkable had happened.

“To answer your question, I am nearly five months. Kye congratulated us just before he left for Madeira. Neither I nor Nathan had any suspicion until Kye mentioned it in a roundabout way. I guess he didn’t want to say anything to anyone because he thought that was our secret to tell.”

I smiled at the thought. It would have been just like Kye to think that way. He wouldn’t have wanted to take the limelight from anyone. Knew that was something only the parents to be should announce. There were so many things that could go wrong in the first few months that announcing soon could bring heartache to many people.

The thoughts of Kye were sobering. I placed a hand on my stomach, where our own child was growing inside me, and couldn’t stop the tears that started to fall. I felt a hand rest on top of mine and squeeze. Looking up, I saw Kelsey looking at me not with pity, but the same sadness as I felt myself. She missed him as much as I did. I knew they were both close, that much had been clear. I just didn’t think it would affect her this much.

“Have you found out what you are having?”

I decided to try to change the subject. Take the emphasis away from me and Kye and back onto Kelsey and Nathan, hoping that it would help with the pain I was feeling in my heart. Kelsey quickly understood my reluctance to mention Kye.

“No. We have decided to wait until the baby is born. We don’t care if it is a boy or a girl. As long as it is healthy, that is all that matters. With Maddie being pregnant, Sienna not long having Benjamin, and now you, it looks as though there are going to be a few King’s babies on the way. I know Jessica and Mason are hoping for another child. I find it difficult to spend time with Ashleigh, though. They are not sure if they will be able to have children naturally, but we live in hope for the both of them.”

We sat and chatted for a while, comparing notes about our own pregnancies, and Kelsey gave me a few helpful pointers on tips to stop the morning sickness and everything else I had to look forward to. I suddenly felt glad to have a friend. One that knew some of what I was currently going through. All the way through our conversation, though, one question ran through my mind: had they heard anything from Kye?

“Kelsey, can I just ask… No, it doesn’t matter.”

I couldn’t bear to find out that he had been in contact with his friends and hadn’t tried to speak to me. I already knew that he hadn’t spoken to his brother, as I had talked with Mateus a few times since I’d been at home.

“No one has spoken to Kye, if that is what you are going to ask. I was ready to get on the plane and head over to Madeira to knock some sense into him. But after Mason spoke with Mateus, I was forbidden to go see him. Mateus said he’s changed. That he is unstable. But that makes me want to see him more.”

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