Chapter 37 – Codependency

[Third person POV]

“Sir, the madam is bleeding, I think the baby is in danger,” after the words hit his ear, he couldn’t explain the dread he felt at that moment, this was all too familiar.

He had witness many a time when he would be called about his wife bleeding, and it all ended the same way, with news of the death of their baby.

It was always the same, it was always the same, it was supposed to be different this time. There were only two months remain for her to be full-term.

‘Who needs kids anyway?’ a quote he had learned to tell himself each time he had to watch his wife go through this.

He remembers the first time he met Clover, through his fiery secretary who kept trying to set him up with everyone and he would always pay Fiona extra just to avoid getting set up.

And one day he had met a woman who made him beg Fiona to at least set him up. ‘She is married,’ Fiona said, but Fiona’s tone alone made him believe that he could win Clover’s heart. He just had to be persistent.