She spent the entire night wide awake, and in the morning she decided to take two days off work.
She quickly got ready and went to the hospital for another check-up. The results confirmed once again that she was eight weeks pregnant.
She vaguely recalled having unprotected sex with Byron on his birthday two months ago. It was only once, but she ended up pregnant.
Athena shook her head, unable to accept this. The doctor, noticing her dejected expression, kindly said, "Madam, it's not easy for you to conceive given your condition. I suggest you consider keeping the child."
Given how easy it was to get pregnant, she wasn't sure if she was lucky or unlucky.
"I will think about it," she replied before leaving the hospital.
Standing in the chilly autumn wind, Athena paused for a moment before deciding to buy a plane ticket back to her hometown.
Once she arrived in Greeli City, she purchased a bouquet of roses and purple daisies, along with two bottles of wine. She hailed a taxi and headed towards Colwi Cemetery.
It started to drizzle as soon as she arrived. The security guard spotted Athena from a distance and hurried over with an umbrella.
"Athena! I didn’t expect you today!"
"I just wanted to pay a visit," she explained.
After a brief chat, she left a bottle of wine as a token of appreciation for the guard.
With an umbrella in hand, she walked alone into the depths of the cemetery.
The guard, holding his wine, gazed at her slender figure and sighed with sympathy.
"What's the matter? Do you know her?" a janitor leaned in and asked.
The guard shook his head and sighed again, "Poor girl. She was just a little kid when she laid her mother to rest here. Then at the age of ten, she bid farewell to her grandfather, and just six months ago... her grandmother passed away. At her grandmother's funeral, she stayed by her grave all day without eating a thing." Athena quickly located the tombstone. Her grandparents lay side by side, with her mother nearby.
The roses were for her grandma. When her grandfather was alive, he would bring a rose for her every single day.
The purple daisy was for her mother, her favorite flower.
Finally, Athena poured a glass of wine for her grandfather.
I have something to share
for a few
I probably shouldn't keep this
She hesitated.
left in this world. This baby will be my only
doctor said it would be difficult for me to conceive, so… I've decided to keep
and continued, "You will love
the President's Office at Imbe Group was abuzz with
Athena's resignation had spread like
that only Athena could handle
new secretary arrived early this morning, led
the new secretary, Ruby Holland, caused quite
striking resemblance
relationship between Byron and Athena had been
Athena resigning and someone so similar to her appearing
the overseas project department. By the time the meeting
to the President's Office, Ruby approached
I took her place? I
glanced at
Liam heard Ruby's words,
"I apologize for forgetting to inform you. I was busy
Byron. It must be serious,"
train you, you can go now. Come back when she returns to
sensed Byron's foul mood. She was always good at reading
a few sweet words, she promptly left, shooting an annoyed glance at the secretary's
must purposely be making things difficult
that she had something urgent to attend to; she thought it was a deliberate attempt to teach her a
wait! You started this. I'll
schedule. "Mr. Crawford, you have a golf game with Mr. Franco, the president of Colas Construction,
his eye, he could see that Byron's eyes were getting darker by the
taking a sip of his coffee, his
tell her
couldn't even make a decent
quickly grabbed his phone to
frustration intensified as he