"Ferdinand, I may not have your fancy degrees, but I'm not stupid."
Ferdinand stared at me, his breathing ragged.
"You've been investigating me?"
I laughed. The tears fell anyway.
"Investigate? The whole world already knows you two spent last night together."
Ferdinand finally lost his patience.
"Jade, can you stop being so unreasonable?"
"Even without Vera, I wouldn't have wanted this baby. If you want to blame someone, blame the kid's bad timing for showing up when it shouldn't have!"
I stood up and glared at him with every ounce of fury I had left.
"Ferdinand, don't you dare regret this."
Seeing that I'd finally given in, Ferdinand exhaled with relief.
"Jade, I'll go with you to the hospital."
Before I could refuse, Vera winced and clutched her stomach.
"My period just started. It hurts so bad."
Ferdinand's parents shot to their feet, urging him to help Vera to our bedroom to rest.
The two of them rushed into the kitchen together to boil her brown sugar water.
I turned on my heel without a word and took a cab to the hospital.
Right before I was wheeled into the operating room, a new set of photos hit trending: Ferdinand, Vera, and his parents, all four of them at dinner together.