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After an unexpected night with my lifelong nemesis, he refused to take any responsibility. But fate had other plans, and I ended up pregnant. When the test confirmed it, I packed my bags and disappeared into a remote countryside. "Babe, it's not that I don't want you to have a good life, but I honestly don't know how to face your father," I whispered to myself. Months passed before the Fletcher heir showed up at my rural hideaway, arriving in a whirlwind of dust and wind, breathless and frantic. "Aurey, I've been hunting everywhere for you!" he gasped. His gaze, however, was immediately drawn to the faint swell of my belly. His eyes were bloodshot, exhaustion etched into his face after days without sleep, and his grip on my hand kept tightening. "You're carrying my child. Where do you think you can run now?"