Chapter 125: Chapter 125

"Wh...what does he mean by this?" Donald asked at last, after scanning the text message.

"Your guess is as good as mine," Carol replied, rubbing at her face, hardly able to believe the level to which Sebastian was willing to stoop to be cruel to her. If he thought that she was going to just lay low, act like a sheep and allow him to ride all over her, then he had another thing coming. She just couldn't get the image of that text out of her head. It read:

Good morning, Donald. How are you doing? So, have you heard from your daughter yet? I just wanted to let you know that she's with something of mine. Something invaluable. I don't know if she told you about it or not, but she's pregnant with my child and according to the contract that she signed, if such a thing were to happen, then I'll have full custody of the child. Tell her to come out of wherever she's hiding so we can work something out because if I find her myself, she's never going to see the child except for the day it is born. Thanks, Sebastian.

"I mean, what is he trying to achieve? I don't even understand him or what he wants. He was the one who asked me to get rid of the child, that he wasn't ready to father one, that was before accusing me of trying to trap him with a child. So, what does he want now? I don't understand this man at all!" Carol began hotly, getting up and pacing the room agitatedly.

"Me neither. You should sit down and try to calm down, though. We'll figure this out."

"What has changed? He was ready to live with me before, even asked me and I agreed, only for him to turn around when I informed him about the baby. But now that he has come to terms with the fact that I'm pregnant, he wants to punish me for it by taking my child away from me? Are you sure that was not his agenda when he asked me to stay? Maybe he wanted to get me pregnant and then punish me by taking my child away from me. Why would he or anyone in their right mind want to do something like that? What did I ever do to him to warrant all this? If anything, it should be Jessica that he seeks to punish, not me. After all, she's the one who cheated on him and made him believe that his uncle was behind all that happened to her. I thought he at least liked me a little. Apparently, all I was good for was just sex, and by the looks of it, a baby-making machine." Carol spat, still pacing about agitatedly, her right hand going protectively to her stomach.

"Carol, calm down. All we're doing right now is speculating. We don't know what prompted him to send such a message. Maybe you should contact him at least. You know that he has no way of contacting you since he doesn't have your new number." Her father said, allowing her to vent all she wanted.

"Heaven forbid! That's the last thing that I'll ever do. Contact a man who treated me so badly. Sebastian is trying to punish me for whatever reason he has, and I'll be making it all too easy for him to do so the minute I contact him. That is also why I'm not going to touch the money that is in the account he created, at least not yet. I don't know if he will be able to track me if I withdraw from it or not. I still have more than enough money in my main account. I'll survive on that for now, dad, plus I don't plan to stay idle. I'm going to get a job. However, I really must go away as I had planned."

"Carol. Calm down, and let us go over the possibilities. What if he is seeking reconciliation?" Donald asked quietly.

"And this is the best way to go about that? By threatening me? Common, dad. Even if he is seeking reconciliation, I have no wish for it. Each time I think about the accusations he laid against me, and how he denied the baby even though he was the one who got me pregnant, I can't help but wonder what a horrible father he is going to be."

"So you're not even willing to consider that possibility?"

"Not yet. Also, you seem to have forgotten the reason I've been crying since morning. You seem to have forgotten about this." Carol said angrily, as she pointed to the magazine on the table, her anger not quite able to mask the pain in her voice. On the first page of the magazine was a very large picture of Sebastian at a fundraiser, but he was not alone, neither was he just with anyone or any strange female. No, he was with Jessica, arm in arm with her as she posed and smiled for the camera, holding him possessively. Sebastian, who had sworn that he was going to get rid of Jessica, was in fact, going to fundraisers with her, and from the interview that Jessica had given the magazine, was even living with her. Carol had gone for a walk when she spontaneously decided to get some biscuits that helped with her morning sickness at a grocery store and had seen the magazine there, whereupon she purchased, brought it home, and showed it to her father, crying profusely. Even now, the sight of the offending picture made her want to cry again, but she tried to put on a brave face.

"There's no way he's seeking reconciliation if he is attending fundraisers arm in arm with Jessica just a month after I left. There's no doubt that they are together, I mean, look at them. I'm going to go away as I planned, and then later, if I decide that he is worth it, I'll let him have joint custody of the child when it is born. However, he has no business with me before the child is born, so I'm just going to stay the hell away from him, as he requested."

"We'll talk about this later, Carol." Her father said so she nodded as though she agreed with him, but immediately he went out to get something, she moved into her room, picked up her already packed bag and took a taxi to the airport, leaving a note for her father to tell him that she would call him when she arrived where she was going. She was not going to make it easy for Sebastian to find her, and neither was she going to let him take away her child once it was born. If he did so, that meant that Jessica would be her child's stepmother. Jessica, who did not like her one bit, would most likely not like her child either and would no doubt maltreat the child if he went to live with her. No, Jessica was welcome to have Sebastian if she wanted, but she could never have Carol's child too. Carol would rather die than let that happen.