The Twenty-Billion-Dollar Sacrifice
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ritance and cut ties with my family, al
l him I was pregnant with our
Sophia. She'd been in a hit-and-run, and her acting career
baby, his face went cold. He told me t
ere from that same fire. He didn't know I
me to the clinic alone. There, the nurse told me the
nd he stil
t lit up my phone. It was a glowing article announcing that Liam and Sophia were expectin
ay a tear, I found the number
ice breaking. "I was wron
pte
d you ju
of our modern apartment. My
nd of five years, didn't even look up from his tab
Elena. A minor one, nobody was seriously hurt, but her image can't
I am a Cardiac Surgeon. A felony record will revoke my medical l
u can take a sabbatical. Sophia... she's fragile. You know she saved me from that
oulder blades, spreading down my spine-the exact path of the
spered. "Liam, s
up. "She dragged my unconscious body out of a burning building. Sh
to scream. Two small, coin-sized burns fr
him as a burning beam crashed down on my back. I remembered dragging him, inch by agonizing inch, until my skin felt like it was melting of
he career I built from nothing
vely. "My company is about to go public. W
enty-billion-dollar inheritance to live in a studio apartment and pay your tuition whil
nds. "That's why I know you're strong enough to do th
I said, backing away from
expression vanished, repl
Six
Finding out you're pregnant... it would break her heart. She thin
choked out. "My license, my re
pity. "We can't have this ba
ed. "It's you
made a vow when I was fifteen that I would never let a
mouth. I had saved him. I had taken the fire for him. And no
my voice hollo
e rang-Sophia's ringtone. "S
assistant will book the
alone with the ghosts of the