My Girlfriend Helped Her Male Friend Have a Baby
I was preparing to take my girlfriend to Alaska to see the Northern Lights when I found photos of her lying naked with her male best friend in my drawer. Along with the photos were a bunch of lab reports checking male fertility. The date on the reports was the same day I had my stomach cancer surgery.
So when she said she was busy, she was actually busy testing her male best friend’s fertility.
When I confronted her about it, she lashed out at me impatiently.
“We were just lying together, nothing happened.”
“This was purely medical treatment. Can’t you stop being so dirty–minded?”
Looking at the explicit video that came through on my phone, my heart sank into dead silence.
After a long pause, I called my parents. “Mom, Dad, I agree to come back and inherit the family business.”
After I hung up the phone, there was a violent knocking at the door.
The door shook with the urgent, grating knocks. Whoever was outside was clearly furious.
“Nash, open the door!” It was my girlfriend Nadia’s voice.
In the past, I would have rushed to open the door for her, helped her change into slippers, and welcomed her home. I always felt bad about how hard she worked managing the company and wanted to do whatever I could to take care of her and ease her worries.
But today, I just sat there, my expression blank.
Seeing no one was opening the door, Nadia had someone break it down. The first thing she did when she came in was rush to my side and slap me hard across the face.
“Why did you attack Kieran?”
“You know his health is poor. Why would you hurt him?”
Looking at Nadia’s near–crazed expression, my heart clenched painfully.
Today I had bought plane tickets, planning to come home and pack our bags to take her to see the Northern Lights in Alaska. I wanted to surprise her.
Instead, I found those “treatment” photos of her and Kieran in the drawer.
When I went to confront Kieran, I was beaten up by him and his friends. Now somehow I was the one who had attacked him.
“Say something. Cat got your tongue?” Nadia’s pupils were bloodshot, her eyes looking like they wanted to kill me.
“You dare to do it but not admit it? Some man you are.”
I lowered my head with a self–mocking smile, no longer having the energy to argue with her. I just tossed the photos at her feet.
“What is this?”
When she saw the photos, a flash of guilt crossed Nadia’s eyes. Her hands involuntarily clenched, and she spoke with less confidence.
“It’s not what you think,”
*Kieran was diagnosed with fertility issues and might not be able to have children. I was just helping the doctor treat him.”
What kind of medical treatment requires lying naked in bed with a woman?
Such a ridiculous excuse, yet she believed it. I just found it laughable.
But Nadia kept talking, becoming more convinced she was right. “That’s right, this was purely medical treatment. Kieran and I are completely innocent, heaven knows.”
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9:06 AM
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“How can your mind be so dirty? You really disgust me.”
I looked at her, shocked and grieved.
What was I still hoping for?
I should have understood long ago, when she kept abandoning me for Kieran time after time, shouldn’t I?
Nadia and I were college classmates. We went from campus sweethearts to where we are now, the model couple in everyone’s eyes.
For her sake, I fought with my parents and stayed in this city. When she wanted to start a company, I emptied my pockets and worked hard with her to build the business from scratch.
When she saw me vomiting uncontrollably after drinking too much at business dinners, she would hold me preciously, tears welling up in her eyes out of distress.
“Nash, you’ve worked so hard. When we make it big, I’ll never let you push yourself like this again,” she would gently comfort me, wiping the sweat from my brow.
“Then we’ll get married, have the wedding at the best hotel, the most luxurious ceremony.”
“I’ll make everyone envy you.”
