“Have you looked in the mirror? Do you really think I’d marry someone like you and actually have your child? I only dated you because you were easy to flaunt, decent-looking, and obedient like a dog. Sure, you only make a few tens of thousands a month, but at least you spent every cent on me.”
“But dating? That’s just for fun. Marriage? That’s a whole different game.”
With a toss of her hair, she let out another smug, scornful laugh.
“Oh, and by the way, I had the baby aborted yesterday.”
“Did you honestly think I’d let a pregnancy chain me to some broke loser? Raise a bunch of little nobodies and live a miserable life forever? Not a chance.”
2
Blair was always calculating, a master of mind games. She liked to test me, to see if my love was real or if I’d obey her every whim like some loyal dog.
Once, she returned from a business trip and deliberately left a pair of men’s slippers by the bed just to see if I’d get jealous. Another time, she called her best friend and pretended to be talking to a man, calling him “darling” while watching my reaction from the corner of her eye.
So when she told me she had aborted the baby, I thought it was just another test. If I got angry, she’d accuse me of treating her like a walking womb. If I looked relieved, she’d say I was dodging responsibility.
So I smiled.
“Blair, stop it. There’s no way you’d do that. You’re just testing me again, aren’t you? Seeing whether I’d lose it or not?”
“Come on, don’t mess with me. I love you. This ring…”
Blair cut me off again, her voice cold and merciless. “Alright, drop the act. First, yes, I really did get rid of the baby. Second, all those little ‘tests’ you thought I was playing? They weren’t tests at all. I used them to flip the story and make myself look like the victim so I could blame you and still come out clean.”
What?
I stood frozen, every inch of me stiff with shock.
“Yes,” she said, catching the look in my eyes and nodding with smug certainty. “I never saw you as someone I’d grow old with. You were just a placeholder, someone to string along until someone better came along. And now that I’ve found a real man, someone rich enough to give me everything I want, I don’t need you anymore.”
She let out a cruel scoff. “And by the way, whoever told you the baby was even yours? Did you forget we used protection every single time? Did it never once occur to you to question it?”