Chapter 0327
Third Person POV
“You need to stop showing up at my house, Stella,” Ethan said as he stepped off his front porch and headed. towards his car. Stella Airborne, a stripper that Ethan had courted and had sex with on multiple occasions, followed him, tears clear in her eyes.
“You haven’t returned any of my calls, Ethan,” she said, her hands tugging at one another, her body visibly trembling.
“There’s nothing we need to talk about,” he told her. “It’s over between us.”
“Is it because of that rich woman?” Stella asked.
“I’m not sure what you are talking about.”
“I’m not stupid,” she said, grabbing his door handle before he could open the car door. He paused and turned towards her, his eyes blazing with anger. Ethan was not one to be messed with, especially by a whore.
“Watch yourself. You are forgetting your place,” Ethan said through his teeth.
“I saw her here you know,” she said, tears spilling out of her eyes.
Ethan narrowed his eyes.
“What?”
“That girl… the one you want. That’s Irene Landry, right?” she asked, her tone trembling but her eyes showing a hint of darkness that Ethan had never seen before. “I saw her with you before. I’m assuming she’s another one of your pieces of ass.”
“She’s my fiancé,” he growled. “Leave her out of this. You shouldn’t have come here in the first place. She should have never seen you.”
“What if I told her the truth about us-
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She couldn’t even get the words out because Ethan’s hand was around her throat in a second. He slammed her against his car door, and she choked out as she struggled to breathe. She desperately tried to get him to loosen his grip, but he wouldn’t. Tears spilled out of her eyes as she pleaded with him.
“Don’t you ever threaten me again,” he said in a low and threatening tone. Whispering coldly in her ear, he added, “You won’t like what’ll happen if you do.”
Without another word, he threw her to the ground. She let out a sob as she rubbed her aching throat.
“You’re a monster, Ethan,” she croaked, tears soaking her cheeks.
“Never claimed to be otherwise,” he murmured, throwing open his car door and sliding into the front seat.
The only reason why Stella appealed to him in the first place was because she looked like Judy. She was also easy, and it didn’t take much to get her into bed.
Just before he threw his car into reverse and pulled out of his driveway, she grabbed his car door handle and pulled herself to her feet. He thought about just driving off anyway, regardless of whether she was hanging onto his car. But he really didn’t want to get blood splatters all over the paint.
He sighed and turned to look at her, narrowing his eyes he Hissed, “Let go.”
“I’m pregnant,” she blurted, making Ethan’s heart still. A slow–rising panic nearly consumed him, making it
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difficult to breathe as the world closed in around him.
Despite her words and the effect, it had on him, Ethan maintained a stoic expression.
“I found out last week, and I’ve been trying to reach you so can tell you,” she said, wrapping her arms around her body and staring at the ground, a hint of pink coating her cheeks and nose.
“Okay?” Ethan said after a long pause; he had to remind him that she was a whore so the likelihood of the baby behind his was slim. She was just trying to get him to feel bad and stick around. But it wasn’t going to work.
“I’m pregnant with your baby, Ethan,” she said, her voice cracking slightly as tears ran down her flushed cheeks. “How do you know it’s mine?”
His words were like a slap in the face, and she flinched from the force.
“Because you are the only one, I’ve been with…” she whispered.
“You weren’t a virgin when we fucked, Stella,” Ethan growled. “You’re a stripper for crying out loud!“
