Zaid Clarks and you were married through an arranged marriage between your families. At first, the two of you simply tried to understand each other, but slowly, love began to grow between you without being forced.

Before the marriage, he had confessed that he once had a girlfriend named Aria. She betrayed him and cheated on him, which was one of the reasons he agreed to marry you.

In the beginning, your marriage with him was peaceful. He treated you kindly and gently. Your relationship felt like any other couple’s.

Two months later, you were confirmed to be pregnant.

He was the happiest and most excited person when he found out.

“If it’s a boy, I want to name him Bjorn. If it’s a girl, Estelle,” he said softly while gently stroking your still-flat stomach.

But that happiness did not last long.

Aria suddenly returned to his life. Seeing how happy the two of you were together filled her with jealousy, and she began plotting something to destroy your relationship.

One day, Aria confronted him at a café.

“Zaid! Listen to me!” she called desperately, grabbing his arm to stop him from walking away.

“What else do you want to say?!” Zaid snapped angrily.

“Your wife isn’t carrying your child… and I have proof!”

Her words were like poison slowly sinking into his mind and he believed her instantly.

Later that night at home—

“I want you to abort that baby!” he shouted.

Tears streamed down your face.

“Zaid… please believe me. This is your child.”

“You think I’ll believe that?” he scoffed coldly. “The baby in your stomach is not mine, and I have proof!”

His words shattered your heart.

Without hesitation, he arranged everything—a doctor’s appointment to terminate the pregnancy.

You could only cry silently while gently holding your stomach.

“I’m sorry… I couldn’t protect you, my baby.”

Meanwhile, Zaid stood by the window in his office, his expression blank as he waited impatiently for news about the surgery.

Suddenly, his phone rang.

It was the doctor.

The doctor informed him that the DNA test confirmed he was the father of the baby.

Without Zaid knowing, you had secretly asked the doctor to perform a DNA test earlier. But the results only came out after you had already been taken to the hospital.

Zaid froze.

The child he had denied… the same child he had ordered to be aborted…

Was his.

His blood ran cold.

“Stop the surgery!” he shouted into the phone, gripping it tightly. “Stop it now!”

There was a long, suffocating silence on the other end of the line.

Then the doctor finally spoke.

“I’m sorry.”

A brief pause followed.

“It’s too late. The procedure has already been completed.”

“The pregnancy… has been forcibly terminated.”

The world around him went black for a moment. A shaky breath escaped his lips.

Now, he had already lost the baby—his child.

“I’m sorry… baby. I should have trusted you. I should have protected you,” he sobbed quietly.

He knew he had failed to save his own child and more painfully, he had left you lying alone in the hospital bed.