Chapter 6 - The Hospital Revelation
When Meline finally fluttered her eyelids open, the harsh fluorescent lights and sterile scent announced she was in a hospital recovery ward. A compassionate nurse stood by her bedside, adjusting her intravenous drip with a gentle expression.
“Take it easy, Miss Brooks,” the nurse murmured softly, checking her chart. “Your blood pressure plummeted from severe exhaustion and stress.”
Meline swallowed the dry taste in her mouth, her mind racing back to the courtroom collapse. Before she could speak, the nurse offered a small, sympathetic smile, placing a reassuring hand over Meline’s fingers. “There’s something else your attending physician wanted me to share with you from your lab results.”
Meline held her breath.
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“You’re pregnant.”
The words hung suspended in the sterile air. Meline stared blankly, a cocktail of terror and disbelief washing over her. Pregnant? Not now. Not while facing federal fraud charges engineered by her own husband. But as the nurse gently explained that the pregnancy was in its very early and fragile stages, Meline’s hand drifted instinctively down to her flat stomach. A sudden, fierce protective instinct ignited inside her chest—a new life existed here, completely innocent of Grayson’s web of lies.
