39 Chapter 39: Emotional Wreck

Someone must have come and dealt with the brunette, and she couldn't see her anywhere. Someone was leading her somewhere. She could barely register what exactly was happening. She felt like a zombie walking. She definitely hadn't collapsed or fainted, which was good. Maddie's secretary was leading her to Maddie's office. Wait. Is that really where she wanted to go? She felt like her brain couldn't process anything. Maddie impregnated someone. Maddie made someone pregnant. Maddie is going to be a dad. To a baby who wasn't her. She could feel her heart is breaking bit by bit. No. No. No!!! She stopped walking even after the secretary shot her a peculiar look.

"No. I don't want to be here anymore." She whispered softly. She felt like if she spoke loudly, She would crack and become a sobbing mess. What had happened to her? Was she always such an emotional wreck?

"I'm sure there's a perfectly good explanation for this, Ma'am." the secretary said soothingly.

"A perfectly 'good' explanation? A PERFECTLY- you know what. I'm not doing this. I'm not doing this, not with you, not with anyone. I'm done. For real, I'm done." She shoved him aside when he still insisted on holding her back, then headed to the lift.

"Jiaye?" Maddie's voice sounded from behind her. She ignored him. She kept on pressing the elevator buttons wishing it would come already so she could leave. Jiaye looked around to see whether there were any stairs she could take. The walking would have calmed her down, gave her space to think.

"Hon." He had somehow managed to reach where she was in that short breath. "Jiaye listen to me-"

"You know what," She calmly said, turning around, "You can go fuck yourself. I don't want anything to do with you, and I don't want to see you, you can go and have a happy life with your cute little-hey! Put me down!!!"

Maddie had grabbed her mid-speech and put her over his shoulder. Jiaye began to kick than she thought better of it. So she opted to hit his back.

"You need to calm down, honey."

"Honey, yourself, put me down immediately, Maddie Ji!"

"Calm down." He patted her butt absent-mindedly, which immediately sent color to her cheeks, which in turn infuriated her more.

They got into his office, and he let her down carefully.

He looked at her warily like she was just about to erupt. And he was right to be wary. She grabbed whatever was close to her and chucked it at him. He quickly ducked, and it went smashing against the wall. She opened her mouth to say something, but she lacked words. She grabbed the next thing she could reach and chucked it at him. He ducked it once again. At this point she was fuming, Jiaye looked for the next thing she could reach, and it was a fishbowl, she went to chuck it, but somehow she managed to restrain herself.

What is she doing? She dazedly looked at the fish just living its life; happily, she assumed, in its home and gently put it back on the surface. This was stupid. Throwing things around wasn't going to solve anything.

"Could you let me leave now, please?" She asked softly, absolutely drained of all her energy to fight.

"Give me a chance to explain myself." He told her huskily as he came over and pulled her trench coat tighter around her chest, "I can't think straight with them looking at me." He mumbled huskily. She had completely forgotten about what had actually brought her here. His features lit up, and she saw him shift uncomfortably.

Jiaye slowly looked down and saw a pretty noticeable bulge. She blushed and looked away appalled when she felt a similar reaction in her own body.

"That brunette used to be my secretary." he continued talking with great difficulty.

"Great, so you got your secretary pregnant," She replied snarkily.

"Relax." He said softly, taking her hand in his and rubbing soothing circles. "There's no way to sugarcoat this. We fucked." She felt a pang piercing through her heart. That information hurt. She pulled her hand away from him and averted her gaze. He gently took her face and made her look at him.

His face was etched in concern. "It hurts you, I'm sorry. But it happened way before this, and it was a mistake on my part." He caressed her cheek then pulled his hand back. "Now she's claiming she's pregnant. But my current secretary, James, is taking care of that."

"You're going to make her remove it?" She was appalled.

"No, he's taking her to the hospital to confirm. That girl is quite deceptive."

"And what if she's actually pregnant?" She asked him quietly.

"Then, we'll take a DNA test."

"It's harmful to the fetus."

He was speechless. "Why are you so concerned about that?" he finally questioned genuinely puzzled.

"It's just an innocent child." She sighed as she stood up. "No point in getting it involved. It's going to be a painful nine months wait."

"Regardless, we can work this out, right?" He asked as he stood to join her.

"I hate to be that person, but having a whole other child outside our marriage," She clenched her fists. "I'm sorry, I don't think I can. I'll always be in constant worry that you'll fall in love with your little family and forget about me."

"That will never happen. If push comes to shove, I'll sue for custody."

"And separate a child from his mother just because of me. I wouldn't be able to live with that."

"I don't even know why we are thinking so far ahead. I'm positive she's not pregnant."

"Can I leave now?"

"No. I'm sure the moment you get out of my office, you're going to pull another disappearing act on me." He checked his watch. "James is about to call with the results." as if on cue he's phone rang. He immediately answered and put it on a loudspeaker.

"Yes." Maddie curtly said.

"Sir, the results are out." He took a dramatic pause that seemed to pull on forever.

"I don't have time for games, James."

"Sorry, the doctor just did the simple test and turns out she's not pregnant."