CHAPTER 43

Rich landed on his bed with a thump. Be stared at the white ceiling and remembered Samantha. Richard rubbed both hands in his face and stood up to go into the bathroom. His phone rang and it was Samantha.

"Hey,” he said dryly.

“You're ignoring me. You're ignoring me, Rich!” Samantha broke down and started crying.

Rich rubbed his temples tiredly and sat back down on the bed.

“I told you I had work to do.”

“Now that you're not busy, are you ready to talk now?” She asked him.

“I guess…”

“I told you I'm pregnant. You've been acting all funny about it. Aren't you at least happy to hear that or something?”

“Happy? Of course I'm not. We agreed you were going to be on contraceptives didn't we? Then how are you pregnant? Did you really think that I'd be elated at the news? So you know I'm not.”

Rich could hear Samantha's dejected sigh over the phone.

“I know okay. I was on contraceptives…”

“Then why are we having this pregnancy talk? Are you trying to prank me? If it's a prank, then yes yo