Chapter 36

"I'm not insulting you. I just want you to learn in life. Look at yourself, that's not you. Look at the clothes you're wearing. You're so dirty you haven't combed your hair." Luke said.
Elijah just shook his head.
"So don't confront me as if this house is ours. You should be thankful because they let us live here." Luke said and walked out of the kitchen.
She and Lucy hurriedly ran back to their rooms so that Luke might see them and he might get angry because they were listening to his and Beatrice's conversation. When she entered the room, Harris was already awake. He is sitting while watching television.
"Where have you been? What's going on, why did you suddenly run there? Take it easy. Why did you forget you're pregnant." it said.
"On the below. Lucy and I just saw Luke and Beatrice arguing over important matters," answered Elijah.
"What is that? Luke told us that he and Beatrice are first cousins. Some relatives fight, that's normal." Harris said.
"No. They are not. Luke just told us that they are cousins ​​but the truth is that they are ex-lovers." Elijah replied, sitting next to Harris.
"U-Huh? Do you know it's wrong to listen to someone's conversation?" Harris said to her and widened his eyes.
Elijah pouted.
"It's not our fault because we were coming down the stairs when we heard them. Why did we keep going in when we knew they were there? We couldn't hear their conversation." Elijah answered with a laugh.
Harris just shook his head.
"When did you get pregnant then you became gossipy."
"You're so mean," Elijah complained.
Then they heard a knock on the door.
"The dinner is already prepared. You two come downstairs," said Lucy.
"We're coming," Elijah answered.
"All right." then they heard the footsteps of Lucy walking away.
"Let's go, sweetheart," Harris said.
"No," she answered.
So Harris looked at him.
"What's wrong? Does something hurt you?"

Elijah didn't answer but raised her two arms.
"Just carry me outside. I don't want to walk," answered Elijah.
Harris raised an eyebrow.
"Really? Why did you have the energy to run in here earlier?"
"Alright. Do you want your baby to starve inside my belly?" Elijah said.
"All right."
So Harris carried her like a child. Elijah smiled. It's good to be a kid because you're always being carried around.
So when they came to the stairs, she went down lest they both fall. She is already heavy because she gains weight already. She slowly went down the stairs while Harris supported her. A few minutes later they entered the kitchen. Elijah saw that Beatrice looked bad at Lucy talking to Luke in front of her. She just shook her head because Beatrice would surely give birth prematurely if she was always like this. She has no right to be jealous because they have been separated for a long time. Maybe Elijah would feel the same way if she still loved her ex-boyfriend.

But luckily she didn't have exes that she loved until now. When Elijah sat in front of Beatrice she smiled at her without effort. They are all eating without saying a word. After some time they finished eating. Harris told her that he and Luke would go out first and buy something. For sure they will drink somewhere. She allowed it so that he could breathe air, his attention can't always be on her. Lucy said goodbye saying that Desiree went out with her. She didn't even notice Andrew coming to them. She and Beatrice were left behind at home. So Elijah went out of the house first and she went to the back side near the pool and she sat on the bench. It's night but it's still bright because of the moon. The breeze is cold even though it is not raining. There is nothing else she can ask for but to give them good health and a long life now that they have a child coming.
"Why are you out here in the cold?" Beatrice asked.
Elijah looked at her and smiled.
"Come here," she answered and moved a little so that Beatrice could sit next to her.
"I thought you were asleep?"
"I can't sleep. Where did Luke and Harris go?"
"I don't know. Maybe they just buy something," answered Elijah.
"I see. Do you know that I also dreamed of having a peaceful married life like yours? But my parents were very unfair. They took away my right to be happy." Beatrice smiled bitterly.
"What's wrong?" asked Elijah who already had a hint about where the conversation between the two of them was going.
"There are reasons why all that happened to you. Maybe there is a better tomorrow waiting for you." Elijah said.
"No. It's like they're torturing me for reasons I don't know. They chose a man to marry me when I have a real man I love." Beatrice replied taking a deep breath.
"Why didn't you fight your love for that man to your parents?" Elijah asked out of nowhere.
Beatrice was silent for a moment. And shook her head.
"That's the biggest regret I have, Elijah. I couldn't even fight him against my parents like he could fight me against his parents. It hurts because our love ended in nothing. My life became hell with the man I chose for me. I left and that's the time I worked for your company, so out of a wrong decision I got pregnant by another man and the man didn't accept me back in his life. No matter what I did I couldn't love him It's wrong when they say that the longer you spend with someone you don't love, the more you'll learn to love them, but that didn't happen to me." Beatrice said sadly.
"That guy is Luke, right? I accidentally overheard it when I was going down the stairs." Elijah said.
"I'm sorry but yes he is. We've been together for almost four years. We were planning a wedding but it got delayed because of what my family was doing and even his parents died because of stress so I know where his anger came from." Beatrice replied.
"Maybe he's just angry now, but he'll accept you later, especially if you live together in the same house now."
"I doubt it. Is it even now that I'm pregnant and the father is another man? For four years we never had sex because marriage came first. And I admire him for that and now that I've become like this, is there still hope? "
"Wow. He was something." Elijah could only say.
She was amazed by Luke's mindset. He was the kind of man that was in keeping.