All Chapters of Million Dollar Baby: Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

Morning sickness was a bitch, and a bitch who was making herself comfortable at that. I was rather happy with the decision to tell my family so early on, because since the first time I had noticed morning sickness, it hadn’t stopped. Every morning I woke up, made breakfast for Clara and myself, threw up whatever small thing I had dared to eat, and walked Clara

God, I was tired.I knew that fatigue was a part of the symptoms I could be experiencing this week, Robert sent me week-by-week updates via text in case I couldn’t notice how miserable I was myself, but I didn’t think it would hit me this hard. I had felt similarly tired when I worked two jobs and attended high school. Except now all I did was take care of Clar

I opened the door before I realised that I could have just pretended not to be home. I didn’t want to believe what I was seeing. It was easier to think that she had forgotten all about us. She was much thinner, her collar bones were poking out underneath her tank top. Her hair was blond, though her roots that came down to her ears betrayed her natural brunette

“Calm down.” “You’re one to talk.”

Though being pregnant with only one child had definitely put a damper on my mood, I did manage to find my mom a good program she could go through. They even offered delayed payments, which meant that I would be able to put her through it as I was building up a nice bank account with Robert’s money. Rehab was difficult, and it was hard to see my mom deteriorate

I did not tell my mom about my fight with Max. When Clara was packing up to go to him I told her that he was a bit busy and wondered if she was okay with just hanging with me for a while. She seemed relieved, only adding to my suspicions that they did not even treat her properly when she was there. This had to be for the best.I was tired of it all. I had to juggle taking

Robert had signed us up for every ultrasound you could possibly get, though the one we had today was what would be the first one for most women. You know, the women who didn’t get pregnant by perfectionist billionaires. I spotted Robert looking at me from the corner of my eye. At first, I just shrugged it off, I was never the centre of Robert’s attention,

It took me a full week to recover to at least a semi-normal state after hearing the baby’s heartbeat. I kept up appearances to everyone around me, I said my professional ‘see you later’ to Robert, I brought Clara to school and my mom to rehab, but on the inside, I was nothing short of a natural disaster. I was getting increasingly more freaked out t

I did what any sane and well-functioning adult would do after going through some upsetting events, I bunkered up and hid myself away from the world.I convinced myself that this was better for me and the baby, I had been worrying about being way too stressed all the time, but even I couldn’t deny that this was just me being a coward. I did not want to face Kiara and

I stared at myself in the bathroom mirror. I had showered so quickly that there wasn’t even any fog on the mirror. I was late, I knew I needed to get a move on, but this was the first time I had properly seen it. A small curve.