Chapter Summary: Chapter 22 – Little Brown Benefit by Mavelinebelle
In Chapter 22, a key moment in the Internet novel Little Brown Benefit, Mavelinebelle delivers powerful storytelling, emotional shifts, and critical plot development. This chapter deepens the reader’s connection to the characters and sets the stage for upcoming revelations.
"What is it?"
"It's about Sacha."
"What about her? I thought I told you to end things between the both of you!" Her shouted.
"And I did but it's not that simple anymore."
"Why not? Is she planning on blackmailing you because I swear to God, I'm going to..."
"She's pregnant!" I blurted out.
Audrey fell silent. She turned pale in the face. I watched attentively.
"Is the baby yours?" She asked after five long minutes.
"Yes."
"Okay. We'll handle this. Abortions these days are super easy and private. We'll get a good doctor and..."
"Audrey, Audrey!" I shouted to get her attention.
"What!" She shouted back.
"I'm not letting her have an abortion."
"WHAT!"
"I can't do that."
"You can't do what? Let your side chick have an abortion? This is all your fault and I'm always stuck in the middle of your mess!"
Audrey, let's not play the blame game right now."
"Maybe if you had wrapped your dick up, some leech wouldn't be pregnant with your baby!"
"What's with all the ruckus?" My mother asked, walking into the kitchen. I had forgotten she was even here. She had the chicken bone removed from her throat by the doctors and she was discharged yesterday.
"Nothing mom. Go back to bed." I covered up.
"No, she ought to hear this." Audrey disagreed.
"Audrey..."
"Christian had been cheating. And the girl he was cheating on me with is now pregnant with his baby." Audrey filled my mother in.
"What?" My mother screeched. Her throat was sore for the bone incident.
"Mom..." But she held up her hand at me, indicating that I should shut the hell up.
"How could you do this to Audrey? She's been nothing but good to you all these times. You think you're going to replace her with some filth you've been having an affair with? Over my dead body, Christian. You and Audrey are going to get married and there's only two options for that baby. You either abort it or strip that girl of all her parenting rights and raise that baby with Audrey when that child is born."
"I'm not going to abort my unborn child and I'm definitely not going to strip Sacha of her parenting rights either. That child has to know who his or her mother is. What kind of monster do you think I am?"
"Shut up Christian! Just shut it!" Mother snapped. "You're so shallow these days. It's no wonder you knocked up someone who doesn't fit into our lifestyle!"
"Our lifestyle? There's only one billionaire in this room, and that's me, but you know what, you can have the house because I'm leaving!" I put my jacket on again and walked out of the kitchen with the both of them tugging at my arms, trying to get me to stay.
I got into my car.
"Christian! Don't you dare start that engine!" Audrey yelled.
I started the engine.
Sacha's POV
After being discharged from the hospital a day ago, I was sitting on my bed, in my bedroom, pondering on how my life had taken a drastic turn. I wasn't ordinary Sacha Rish three months ago. I had over one million dollars in the bank - with interest and previous savings from my job, and I was pregnant with a billionaire's baby.
A small wave of excitement rushed through me as I pictured myself being a family with Christian, raising our child and Judy together, but that excitement faded away when a knock came to the door downstairs.
I picked myself up and went to open the door. In walked Christian's fiancée with another woman whom I assumed was Christian's mother since she held the same emerald green eyes like his.
"Can I help you ladies?" I asked, turning around to face them.
They laughed in unison.
"So this is the one who has been screwing my son?"
"That's the one." Christian's fiancée answered.
"You're not showing as yet?" The woman asked again, staring at my stomach with livid rage.
"I'm about a month." I awkwardly answered, covering my stomach with my hands as if she was attacking it.
"Okay. I came here to tell you a couple of things. One, you're to stay the hell away from my son. He's about to be married. Two, you're going to abort that bastard inside of you and three; you're to return every penny Christian spent on you. If you don't comply with anything I've just said to you, I'll make your worst nightmare a reality.
Audrey, let's get out of here." The women went for the door.
"Oh!" Christian's mother inputted again. "This summer house belongs to my son. You have less than twenty four hours to leave so I suggest you get packing." They turned on their heels again and left, slamming the door after them.
I watched as they got into a Range Rover and their personal driver drove out the gate.
Tears of embarrassment scrolled down my face as I started packing my belongings. I didn't know what those women were capable of and I wasn't about to put my kid sister in harm's way all for a man who wasn't mine to begin with.
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