"Pregnant?!" The word rang in her head. She sat frozen on her seat after the lawyer left. Greg sat at the opposite end of the table for eight, staring at her.
"I'm getting rid of it!" She announced.
"What?!" Greg's voice echoed in the empty room, all the staff were asked to leave the room before the meeting concluded.
"I said, i am getting rid of it!" She shot at him in a very firm tone.
"You wouldn't dare!" Greg growled, trying to intimidate her like he did in the past.
"It's my body and it's my choice! You can't tell me what to do greg!" She shot back, she seems to have grown immune to his intimidation over the years.
"Well. It's my baby." His tone sounded helpless.
She shrugged "how do we know that? The test says i'm pregnant but it didn't state who the father is. That is, if it's true that i'm pregnant. How do i know this not a plot to keep me trapped in this hell of a marriage?" She asked him with a fierce gaze, knowing how much the man before her hates losing, she knew he would go any length just to keep her but feigning a pregnancy test result? This was too far.
"Because i am the father of the seed you're carrying." He replied with a firm tone.
Vanessa scoffed before speaking "Greg, be reasonable. We haven't slept under the same roof or shared a bed for two years and when it's time to finally be rid of each other you barge in here with a false pregnancy result?" She chuckled "pregnancies are not contacted from food or water, it requires a lot for it to happen, and so far we haven't been having sex for it to happen. Wake up greg and end this shab you're pulling!" Her raised tone reflecting how much she despises this man and wants to be rid of him as soon as she can.
Greg sat there and stared at her without saying a word. The fact is, she's pregnant with his baby. How it happened is no one's business, he doesn't owe her an explanation, never has and never will.
"What do you want from me greg?" She asked in a breaking tone, her throat felt dry and her head dizzy "you can keep all the shares, i don't need your money or properties, just sign the papers and let me go. Set me free greg!" She said.
"I am not going to let you run away with my baby growing in you. I can't divorce you now. You are keeping the baby and that's final." He said with a final note.
"Dammit greg this is my life, I get to choose what i want to do with it!" She fired in anger, seeing how adamant greg was.
"Good, do with it as you wish. After the birth of my child." He replied in a cold tone. "It's your life but it's my heir. I can't risk losing you" he cleared his throat "the baby. When i have my baby in my arms, you can go ahead and live whatever kind of life you wish to." He avoided looking at her while he spoke.
Vanessa thought hard for a while before speaking "well, how can you be so sure?" She said in a calm taunting tone.
"So sure of what?" He asked raising his eyes to look at her.
"So sure the baby's yours? I may be pregnant, maybe. But what makes you think the child's yours?" She focused her eyes on him. "Women have needs too you know, needs that only a man can satisfy." Her tone became crispy and more taunting. She hasn't been with anyone since the scandal in their marriage, but she enjoys taunting greg, that's the only way she get to make him suffer, she's aware of his tight attraction to her beauty and it kills him to imagine a man having her. He may have deceived her into marrying him just to acquire an inheritance but his abnormal grip on her screams a lot.
Greg swallowed hard gritting his teeth, his blood boiling as his mind painted pictures of the deep intimate romantic moments they shared four weeks ago in his private mansion, his mind played a trick on him by picturing vanessa with another man, it disgusted him and he felt like fainting out of jealousy "You won't dare!!" He growled.
"Won't? Or already have?" She smiled while peering into his darkened face that reeks of jealousy. She was having a good time seeing him like this. She enjoys the look of an enraged possesive husband.
Of course she would never think of cheating on him despite how bad he hurt her by abandoning her for his old time girlfriend who he couldn't marry because of the stakes of his inheritance.
Greg clenched his fist, he stared at her like a lion ready to pounce and devour a cub he didn't father "who is he?!" He thundered the question.
"The audacity to ask after treating me the way you did? What were you thinking, that i'd waste in solitude for the rest of my life? Wake up greg, the world does not revolve around your grip, especially mine! Remember, it is my life, it's my body, my choice!" She stood up from her seat and walked out of the room.
"Vanessa get back here, i need answers!!!" He banged his hands on the table but she kept walking anyways.
"You lost the rights years ago when you left me for victoria, Mr Gregory Thompson Macaulay!" She yelled back at him and kept walking.
"Vanessa get back here!" He yelled but she was already out of sight.
He groaned in frustration, his head takes a spin each time victoria's name is mentioned. Victoria was his girlfriend back in the day, he couldn't marry her because of his parents, his father threatened to revoke his inheritance if he did. He married vanessa because she was his parent's pick, few days to their massive wedding, he found himself drawn to her, every thing she did drew him closer to her, he found her fascinating and soon, he discovered he wasn't really in love with victoria but had a relationship with her out of lust. Being a man of his word, he went back to Victoria after one month of his marriage with Vanessa, he couldn't divorce her because he would lose all his inheritance. Few weeks with victoria and all he longed for was vanessa. It took him two years and the departure of victoria to come back to his senses and realize that vanessa was all he needed.