Pieces Of Your Broken Heart

Avery's POV ;

“Who the heck is the baby’s father!”

Orion’s voice causes the room to shake like a tsunami, with Piper and myself unable to hold his gaze. His tone is deeply laced with betrayal and pain and torment...

"Do not make me repeat myself." He takes slow and calculated steps towards us, me in particular, and I retreat, stepping backward until my back is plastered to the wall and there is nowhere to run to.

"No need to be scared darling... This is all a dream, right?” His voice is breaking like it will break down.

No, Orion! It's not a dream, I really want to scream it to his hearing, but even I wish it was.

He cups my chin with his index finger and tilts it upward so I'm looking at him directly. I blink nonstop, avoiding the bloodshot gaze that holds regrets and hatred.

“Look at me, Avery,” he demands, fixing his angry eyes on me the whole time and I obey, having no other choice than to stare intently into them, seeing the pain I caused and hating myself for it.

What else could I have done? Request for another loan? Maybe sell the wedding gifts... But there is none, not for a failed wedding that we pumped our life savings into. If I decide to return to the bakery, I would work a hundred years to get the money for something as basic as an oxygen tank, and Orion would be long dead.

"I did it to save you," I mumble, hoping that he believes me.

As expected, he begins to laugh so loud that I suppress a cry. I expect him to deny all of it, or maybe get angry, but listening to him breaks me more.

"You got pregnant to save me? I don't get it.” He tries to make sense of the situation.

"You were dying...”

"And running into another man’s arm is the best way?”

"Maybe you shouldn't have heaped your problem on her without money in your account!” Piper is done watching him harass me.

Orion leaves me and diverts all of his attention to Piper. At first, Piper doesn't move an inch, like she isn't scared of him, but when Orion gets closer, she begins to fidget slightly, as her hands tremble beside her.

“How dare you?!” He thunders, ready to snap her head off her neck.

“Leave her alone!” I latch onto him, holding his hand tight and preventing him from attacking her.

"Tell him the truth, Avery!” She cries. "He freaking put you in this damn mess!”

Clang!

The slamming of an object makes me jolt upward, to look at the object that crashed. It missed Piper by just an inch and scared Piper to wrap herself with her arms.

“I'll make you hate having a silly brain like yours!” Orion yanks me off and I land on the hard floor with a heavy thud.

It feels like my bones snapped and I go numb for a minute or two. What if I lose the baby? My heartbeat begins to accelerate in sporadic succession.

Piper and Orion just run around me like a cat and a mouse, until Piper flees out of the room, leaving me to face my monster alone.

"You dare betray me and you make your friend disrespect me?!” Orion barks.

I'm too broken to say a word and thick beads of sweat break out of my pores, soaking into my dress. I'm about to lose Mr. Arrogant's only seed... That's if I haven't lost it already.

“Speak the hell up!” He squats to my level, demanding a response to his question. "You abandoned me in the hospital bed, and you jump in the arms of another man in just three freaking months?!”

My mistake flashes before me. If only I told his friend about my plans, just maybe he would have brought up something better because he was very supportive. Instead of just ghosting him and resurfacing with another man’s child.

What was I thinking? That I will go away, get pregnant, and return months later to open arms like he's a robot? Not like I didn't see this coming, but I thought I would be ready for it before doom struck. I guess I'm totally wrong.

"I loved you like a man would love his woman, Avery." He sobs before me. His tone is now soft, too tired to keep fighting.

"I cherished you so much that I would literally worship the ground you walked on.”

Loved? Cherished?

Was he abandoning me in the middle of all this? This wasn't what I envisioned for myself, to pop out a stranger’s baby and destroy my home. After this, what else?

“You choose to disregard what we have going on for this? This nasty thing?!”

He looks at my baby bump. Even though I shouldn't have any connection with the child, because it will get ripped away from me once it's born, I can't help but feel the surge of anger arise in me when he abuses my child – his child.

I close my eyes for a moment, trying to get my emotions all sorted out. I should be remorseful, rather than angry at something so trivial.

"You know what, you're aborting this child.” He says like he's already made the decision in his head.

"What?!" My eyes fly open. Did I just hear him right?

He doesn't wait for me to accept his will, instead, he stands up and yanks me to my feet, as he begins dragging me to the bathroom.

“Leave me alone, what are you doing?”

“You will abort it, and you will, right now!”

"No, I won't!” I struggle to wriggle out of his hold. His hands are so strong that my struggle is nothing to displace him.

'... if anything happens to the baby because of your negligence, you will not only pay me through your nose, but you'll be my slave for eternity.’

Mr. Arrogant’s words ring in my head.

"Please, Orion...”

My crying ceases in my throat when a wooden chopping board lands on his head with full force, knocking him out as he slumps to the ground.

I swiftly turn to find Piper wide-eyed, her hasty decision mocking her in her face as she throws the board aside and reaches down to feel for his pulse.

When she freezes, my heartbeat spikes... Oh, my god!

"Is he dead?" I mumble words that I thought I would never say.