Perhaps. It was confusing but all she knew was that she needed to have this man. She couldn't live without him and if he ever gives her a glimmer of hope that it was doable, then she was going to stuck on him like a leech and never go.
Perhaps, it started with some greediness or mixed emotions – perhaps, all she wanted to do was find that security she had been lacking and over time, her feelings became real. She might be cunning, calculating and manipulative, but she could swear to the heavens that she loves him and that was an honest truth.
She loves the child she is carrying, not simply because the child belongs to Valentine but the child is hers. She might have wanted to become pregnant for some other reasons but what she told him earlier about family was real. It was just that she never thought that before twenty-two, she would be a mother and someone else's mistress.
