Pregnant.

That's what the test said 7 years ago. I was so sure it was Kai's, I just knew it was that blasted angel's baby. He left me just a few short weeks before I found out I was pregnant with my darling son, Julian.

I bet you're wondering ... Who am I? Why am I listening to a woman ranting about her ex-boyfriend getting her pregnant?

I'm Karina Colette Darlen, or to those that know me call me Kari, Karina, Ri-Ri or my mother calls me Kar-bear. I can not tell you how much I hated the nickname Kari, it reminds me of my high school days when I was a hall monitor chasing down teens of all ages with pink detention slips. I'm the future queen of Gotham and this is my story...

I was born on April 23rd, at Gotham Mercy Hospital at 0300 hours or 3 am exactly. My dad was a cop at the Gotham City Police Department, he's retired, and my mom still is currently a wine critic. They were 20 years old when they had me as a newly wed couple. The family frowned upon them because they had sex before marriage. I was the bi-product of their life-lasting love. They named me after a famous Russian ice skater, Karina Romanov. She was a seven-time gold medalist and a philanthropist. Unfortunately, She was killed in a car crash in Moscow, while she was on her way to the 1986 Moscow 'All that Skate' competition. She somberly didn't make it, she was 31 when the coroner proclaimed her death. But anyway back to the story, I grew up in Gotham but my dad is from Texas and my mother is from Oklahoma.

Fast forward to when the first meeting with my future husband was, I was about a month pregnant, I was starting to show through my clothes and I hated it. I couldn't wear what I used to. I was walking down the sidewalk, going to the grocery store and I bumped into a man that looked about my age, twenty, and he fell with me onto the sidewalk. He had jet black hair, pale skin and ice, cold blue eyes, with freckles all along his face, and a rather distinctive nose, he was wearing a suit and holding a umbrella which had fallen beside him.

" M-Miss I sincerely apolog-" was all I heard then I blocked his apology out and it became white noise.

Unfortunately, for the man I was having a bad day and I blew up it was the last straw for me.

"Men are all the same! They break women's hearts and throw them flat on their ass and don't care! All men are animals! They fuck and leave!" I got up and I walked past the man who was still on the ground.

In a hormonal rage I cried thinking about everything that had happened to me. I hated men, they were all war mongers and pigs! Kai, especially; I was still so hurt over it.

Unknowingly, the man I bumped into would change my view on men forever...