Episode 20

The decision of Vivian.

Vivian

When I arrived at the house, I was greeted by Carmen, who couldn't hide her anxiety about how things went.

"How did everything go with the baby?" she asks, I smile and nod. "Yes, look." I say, showing her the ultrasound. "This is its head and these are its hands, and this is its torso, the rest is still forming, but everything looks good according to the doctor." I inform her, she smiles tenderly.

"I was given some routine tests and vitamins, I stopped by the pharmacy on my way here and bought them." I say, she nods. "I'll change into some more comfortable clothes, I want to be more comfortable." I say as I start going up the stairs.

"Well, lunch is ready, should I bring it to your room or will you eat in the dining room?" she asks.

"In the dining room." she nods.

"Miss." she calls me and I stop.

"The gentleman is here." she informs me, I nod and look ahead.

I enter my room and undress, deciding to put on a lightweight, cool dress. It's a bit hot outside, but that's not surprising, this city has always been like this.

I go to the bathroom, remove my makeup, and wash my face. Then I leave the bathroom and subsequently the room. Just at that moment, Tomas also comes out of his room, walks past me without saying anything. I sigh and continue following him, for a moment, the thought of telling him how the appointment with the gynecologist went crosses my mind, but I decide not to. After all, he probably isn't interested. In these past few days, he has come to the house three or four times and has never asked how I'm feeling or how my pregnancy is going.

He goes downstairs and heads towards the kitchen, I go to the dining room where Carmen is finishing setting the table. I smile at her and take a seat. She goes to serve me, but I stop her.

"Leave it, I'll do it. I think you're needed in the kitchen." I tell her, she nods.

"Excuse me." she nods and I put food on my plate.

I start eating and just at that moment, Tomas enters the room and takes a seat.

Oh, oh.

This doesn't mean anything good.

But if I ignore it, just like he does, nothing will happen.

I continue eating calmly, both of us ignoring each other. Suddenly, his phone rings.

"Hi princess." he answers and puts the phone on the table.

"Hi, my love." I hear Kendall's voice, obviously he intentionally put it on speaker.

"Love, I've been calling you for a while and you didn't answer." Kendall complains with a hurt voice.

"I'm sorry princess, it must have been when I was taking a shower, I didn't check afterwards if I had missed calls."

"And what are you doing now?"

"I'm eating." he replies.

"I see, tell me that wicked woman is not with you?"

"No, princess."

I must say I'm a little surprised that he's lying, obviously I know the stupid woman he refers to is me as the wicked woman.

"I see, I really don't understand why your grandmother has to force you to go to that house, what's wrong with your family? They know you're not happy with that woman." she now sounds like she's sobbing and I have to contain the urge to roll my eyes.

"We've talked about this, princess, my family is mistaken and blinded by the image of a good woman that she portrays, but they'll realize everything eventually." I bite my lip, trying to resist the urge to scream at both of them, but I really want to avoid trouble. And maybe it's stupid that I'm still sitting here listening to them talk badly about me, but screw them, I arrived first, and besides, it's him who should go somewhere else to have this conversation.

"Yes, that harpy has fooled them all." Kendall agrees.

Isn't it the other way around?

"Oh love, I can't wait for the day when you can divorce that viper and we can get married and start a family."

"I long for that too, princess."

"But Tomas, what about the baby she's expecting?"

When she asks that, I feel him looking at me, I ignore him. In fact, I've been very engaged in my food, pretending to have zero interest in their conversation, even though it's causing me anger and pain.

"Nothing will happen, princess, when the baby is born, I'll give it my last name and that's it."

"I wanted to be the mother of your children, love, only me." I roll my eyes, already quite annoyed, I'm going to get up from the chair, but he takes the lead, gets up from his chair, takes his phone and leaves the place.

"Don't worry about that, everything will be fine." I hear him whisper, furrowing my brow and looking at him, crossing the threshold of the door, I sigh and look at my plate, the conversation I overheard before has taken away my appetite, but I still decide to finish what's left of my food, after all, I have to eat well, this baby needs it.

Maybe Tomas doesn't care, but I do.

After several minutes, he returns to the table and continues eating as if nothing happened.

"You know? I have a question that I've been asking myself since all this madness and this farce began." he says and I look at him. "How desperate can you be to do all this?" he asks, I decide to ignore his question and look at my plate again. "Answer me, I want to know, are you that starved for love?"

His words hit my heart like a stab, but I decide not to give him the satisfaction of hurting me.

"I hate hearing and seeing her cry because of this situation."

Ah, now I understand! His little sweetheart manipulated him with her crocodile tears, and now he's taking out his anger on me, but I'm not going to keep putting up with this, I don't have to, I'm tired of his insults. There are moments when I ask myself, how could I fall in love with such an idiot?

Okay, this situation is shitty, but he doesn't have the right to treat me like this, doesn't he see that we were both deceived? Doesn't he realize that we're both miserable in this relationship?

I sigh, the other day I read an article, it said that the mother's mood affects the baby a lot, I want the best for my child, I can't wait for the baby to be born to divorce Tomas, in the end who knows if I'll be able to do it, by then, it's very likely that Mrs. Caroll will come up with something to prevent it. Definitely, the best thing I can do for myself and this baby is... I look at Tomas and get up from the chair.

"Don't worry, soon your beloved will stop crying and only smile, and you can fulfill the dream of being together." I say and walk towards the door. "I hope one day you can see clearly the true face of the people around you." I finish and leave the place.

I arrive in my room and grab my phone, I make a call and the person answers shortly after.

"Mr. Salvatierra, excuse me for bothering you, but I'm calling to let you know that I accept your proposal." I finish.

"Very well, Miss Smith, I will start taking the necessary steps from today."

"Very well..." I stay silent for several seconds not knowing what else to say.

"Anything else, Miss?"

"No, I just want to thank you."

"I've already told you, Miss, there's nothing to thank for, see you on Monday at the office."

"Yes, until then."

I hang up the call and throw the phone on the bed.

It's the best decision.

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