Mr Ceo's Pregnant Ex-wife

Chapter 7:SHATTERING NEWS

I crossed the street with my sanity breaking apart. I felt nothing at all, only numbness and pain inside me. If it weren't for the ear-shattering sound of screeching tires pulling to a sudden halt I wouldn't even raise my head and see a ten-wheeler truck towering over me, with only a ruler distance from where I stood.

I was nearly flattened by a ten-wheeler truck! I nearly died! The thought was enough to scare the hell out of me and I sobered up. I couldn't afford to die and leave mom alone. I just can't. I realize I need to live. Not only for myself but for my mother. I couldn't die on her birthday!

Before returning to the hospital I bought a cake for her forty-sixth birthday. It was a single-layer chocolate cake I could afford. It was decorated with flowers on the corners and 'Happy Birthday Mom, ' was written on the center with red icing.

I hailed a cab, clambered inside, and settled the cake on my lap.

I impatiently waited for the congested road to continue and move freely but I waited for a long five minutes but the highway was still choked with traffic due to a car collision ahead.

My back ached and I leaned to the backseat to calm the temper that had been building up inside me. It's mom's birthday, I don't want to return to the hospital late.

Mom was sound asleep when I left her. For sure she would be up at his hour and inquiring everyone where I go.

A sigh filled with relief escaped my lips when the congested road slowly flowed. I lifted my gaze to the window as the car sped up in time to see Ace with his arms protectively around Angela's waist. They dissolved into the door of a jewelry shop that sells golden bands. I turned away from the stinging sight.

Forget the pain. That scumbag isn't worth it Phoenix!

A gentle smile emerged from my lips as I ran to mom's room with a cake in my hand then a heavy bag on the other. The overflowing excitement to greet her happy birthday made me reach her room in a short span of a minute.

For the very first time, I wasn't scared to enter her room. I secured the back higher to my shoulder so I could open the door with ease. My left hand-carried the cake scrupulously and did my best not to ruin it one bit.

I flung the door open and I was greeted by the vacant bed. "Mom?" I called out but it was the silence that answered back.

"Mom?" I rushed to the sofa to check if she was there and whirled the items I held to the floor ignoring the rising panic on my throat. It was empty.

"Where are you Mom?" I screamed this time. Fierce fear clutched through me making me unable to breath. @@novelbin@@

The door opened violently, my panicky eyes landed on Ace who emerged from the door unceremoniously. His stony face landed on my paper-white face.

What was the bastard doing here?

"I'm sorry Phoenix, Mom's dead." His words shattered my whole world.