“Abort the baby,” Eden said angrily. She cut Brenda’s ‘Babies are a blessing speech’ off so quickly that Brenda’s mouth hung open.

Eve gasped.

Her head snapped up and jaw dropped at the three words that rushed from Eden’s mouth. Neither of them had ever expected to hear her say something so cruel.

Eden could see the disbelief on both of their faces, their shock meant nothing to her. She refused to carry the child of the man that she no longer loved. A man that apparently never loved her.

“What?” Eve and Brenda asked in unison.

Eden kept her mouth shut. There was no need to repeat herself because she knew both women heard exactly what she said.

“Edy. Don’t-”

“My mind is made up. I don’t want this baby any more than I want the man that put it inside of me. From the first time I met Jermaine, I made him the center of my universe. Cooking vegetarian meals, praying over him every night, I never missed an opportunity to show him how much I loved him. He repays me by stabbing me in the back. Get this baby out of me,” Eden shouted. She was so livid that her entire body shook.

Eden was beside herself with grief. All she felt now was bitterness, hatred, and an intense need for payback. Jermaine’s betrayal had stripped her of everything that made her a good human.

“Eden, I know Jermaine fucked up, but this baby is completely innocent. He or she doesn’t deserve your wrath. Jason did the same thing, but I never thought of aborting our kids. Jason -”

“Jason wasn’t fucking our sister Eve!” Eden shouted.

Brenda clutched her invisible pearls as her jaw hit the floor. Of all the things she thought she would hear, hearing that Jermaine had been having an affair with Envy was not it. Brenda cringed.

She thought back to the multiple abortions that she had personally performed on Envy and wondered if any of the children belonged to Jermaine. She had also treated Envy for several STD’s. Envy had always been a horrible person, but Brenda never thought that she’d have sex with her sister’s husband.

“Edy, you’re right. Jason didn’t do what Jermaine did, but the fact still remains that your child is completely innocent. Don’t make a permanent decision based on a temporary emotion. You’ll regret it,” Eve said sincerely with tears filling her eyes.

“I love you, Eve. But this is not about you. I didn’t judge you, so don’t you judge me,”

Eve burst into tears. She never told Eden about the child that she secretly got rid of. It was her biggest regret. At the time she thought she would be hurting Jason, but she was the only one hurting because no one else knew, or so she thought.