In the hospital room, Melody Thorne's hand suddenly clenched the bedsheet beneath her. Ever since Jared Quinn had forcefully taken her on the sofa, she had cleverly prepared a bottle of birth control pills. Last night, the first thing she thought of after they finished was the birth control pills, so while Jared Quinn was in the bathroom, she took them out and swallowed them.
Because she was particularly nervous and afraid that Jared Quinn would discover her, she had swallowed them directly after pouring them out. In her panic, she didn't even know how many she had swallowed because all she cared about was the effect.
"Took birth control pills?" Jared Quinn's cigarette was snapped into two sections between his fingers. He hadn't used protection either time and hadn't even considered it. Was she worried about having his child?
That feeling of having his self-respect trampled once again ignited the anger that had just subsided in Jared Quinn.
