“You guys took a while, so I cooked some noodles for myself in the shop.” Liberty picked her son up and asked with concern, “What did Aunt Audrey say?”
Serena helped her sister close up before getting into the car with her.
“I asked Aunt Audrey for help and she was very happy to help. Oh, right! I have some good news. Alice is pregnant.”
Alice had gone for a medical check–up and found that her discomfort as of late was due to pregnancy.
She had been married to Clive for many years but had not had children not because of her body but because they had a very good relationship and wanted to have a few years to themselves.
After Mrs. Stone and the Hunt sisters found each other, Alice saw how cute Sonny was and after discussing it with Clive, decided to start trying for a kid. They did not expect they would succeed so quickly and without her realizing too.
After discovering she was pregnant, Alice went straight to her husband’s office to look for him and tell him the good news.
The husband and wife were so happy celebrating on their own that they only announced that Alice was pregnant to the rest of the family that evening after returning home.
The Stones were happy beyond belief.
Serena was happy for Alice too. She quite liked this cousin–in–law of hers.
“Aunt Audrey must be really happy.”
“She is. Alice hasn’t been feeling well lately and only found out she was pregnant after going to the hospital to get a check–up. Today, Zack suddenly asked me how long I go between check–ups. Is he trying to test the waters to see if I’m pregnant?”
After getting in the car, Liberty said, “Has Aunt Flo come for you this month? If not, you could go and get checked out.”
Serena was silent for a moment. “If you hadn’t asked, I would have overlooked it completely. I think it’s about two days late.”
“Two days? We can’t be sure that it’s a pregnancy then. Many people get it late. You’ve gotten it late in the past too, right? If it still doesn’t come for another week, you should go to the hospital to get checked or go to the drugstore to get one of those early pregnancy tests. It can be pretty accurate.”
Serena started the car. “I’ll go buy one when we pass by a drugstore later. How long do I have to be pregnant for it to be detected by the early pregnancy test?”
She remembered when her sister initially got pregnant with Sonny, Liberty had tested herself with a pregnancy test before going to the hospital to get tested.
“Generally, it can be detected half a month into your pregnancy. But because of how early it is, the second red line will take a long time to show up. It’ll be a faint positive so people often don’t realize it.”
Serena counted the days since she had her last period and taking into account the last time she and Zack slept together, it had already been more than twenty days. since. If she had managed to get pregnant, it would likely be able to be detected.
She decided she would first buy a pregnancy test to test herself.
On the way back to Liberty’s place, there were a number of drugstores.
Serena parked in front of Wiltspoon Pharmacy and said to her sister, “Liberty, I’m going to buy a pregnancy test.“.
“Alright.”
Liberty changed her position as she held her son. The little guy had fallen asleep not long after getting in the car.
Serena left the car and entered the pharmacy to buy a pregnancy test, but worried that it would be inaccurate, she bought extra.
After buying the pregnancy tests, nervousness made itself apparent on her face as she wondered if she was pregnant.
If she was, should she tell Zack?
Even if she did not tell him, he probably would find out anyway.
His men had been watching her every move in secret all this while. Who knew? The news that she entered Wiltspoon Pharmacy to buy pregnancy tests might not even take ten minutes to reach Zack.
Serena knew very well how domineering her man was.
After she came out from the drugstore and as she drove her car away, the two bodyguards who protected Serena in secret entered Wiltspoon Pharmacy, asked the employee working there, and found out that their boss’s wife entered the store earlier to buy pregnancy tests.
Was the missus pregnant?
This was extremely good news!
As long as the missus was pregnant, the couple would make up for the child’s sake.
Everyone’s days of suffering would be over then.
Thus, the bodyguards immediately informed Zack of Serena entering the pharmacy to buy pregnancy tests.
When Zack received the call from the bodyguards, he was at Wiltspoon Hotel, having a meeting with a client.
After hearing from the bodyguards that Serena had entered the drugstore to buy pregnancy tests, his hand holding the phone clenched, although he was still relatively calm. He said in his deep voice, “Got it.”
After hanging up, Zack immediately placed a call to Callum.
“Hey.”
“Callum, where are you now?”
“I’m still in the office, doing some overtime.”
Lately, his cousin had been working nonstop and everyone under him was tired to their bones.
Even Callum, as the COO, was also having a hard time. After dinner, he still had to work overtime.
“Come to the hotel now to discuss our collaboration with Mr. Fletcher. We’ve had a few meetings about this, so you should know about it.”
“Alright.”
Callum did not even dare ask where Zack was going at the last minute. His cousin told him to go to the hotel and off he went.
The York Corporation office was not far from Wiltspoon Hotel. Very quickly, Callum arrived at the hotel.
After reaching the meeting room, he noticed his cousin was long gone from the hotel and only Kevin York, who was in charge of the hotel operations, and his secretary were waiting with Mr. Fletcher and his associates. Kevin’s main field of occupation was in the food and beverage industry, so all the hotels under York Corporation’s banner were managed by him.
Kevin was not familiar with the other projects within the company, so as he accompanied Mr. Fletcher, he could only talk about some other topics. Seeing that Callum had arrived, Kevin breathed a sigh of relief.
“Mr. Fletcher, the COO is here, so you can discuss it with him.”
Kevin York hastily handed over Mr. Fletcher and his associates to Callum as he prepared to withdraw himself.
He did not ever want to get caught by Zack to fill in for him at the last minute again.
Callum had met Mr. Fletcher a few times before and he smiled as he shook hands. with him first before sitting down beside Kevin.
“Where’s Zack?” Callum asked Kevin in a whisper.
“He left. I was caught at the last minute to fill in for him. I’m not familiar with the company’s other projects so now that you’re here and taking over, I’m leaving.”
Callum acknowledged him with a hum.
Kevin smoothly took his leave after making his excuses, taking his secretary with him.
Elsewhere, Serena brought her sister and her nephew back to their place. They had all eaten prior so there was no need to busy themselves in the kitchen again.
Serena raced to the bathroom as soon as she entered the house.
Liberty walked to the sofa to sit down, carrying her son. She tried to wake him as he had not showered yet.
After Sonny opened his eyes and looked around, he closed his eyes again. He wanted to keep sleeping.
Liberty had no choice but to carry him back to his room and let him sleep first.
After coming out of the room, she walked to the bathroom and knocked on the door, asking her sister who was inside, “Seren, how is it?”
The door to the bathroom opened.
Serena came out and she passed the pregnancy test to her sister for her to see.
“I didn’t take the test.”
Liberty glanced at it and asked her, “Why not? Do you not know how to use it?”
“After opening it, I realized I got my period. That’s why I didn’t take the test.”
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