ack, save for the faint, rhyth
tore through her empty uterus. Her forehead was slick with
g hand and pressed the red call
utes passed. Ten min
. She gripped the metal IV pole with both hands, using it as a crutch to
room, dragging the pole behind
e night shift nurse conveniently missing from her post. The only light came
d the water dispens
a familiar, hushed voice drift
tes," Chesnee's voice drifted from the office, c
reckless
ee Cantu, he
ly, pressing her body flat against the wall behin
of people, we wouldn't have to clean up this mes
h panic. "If I didn't kill that baby, Donavan would eve
yes widened in sheer horror. Harper didn't push
Dr. Blackwood enough to keep his mouth shut. That dead fetus
h and blood. Burned like garbage. Her knees buckled. She slid down the wal
asked. "She knows I pushed he
rry about her. I've already made a call to my ol
blood ra
hly. "They will put her on a cargo ship with a fake passport. She'll be s
voice filled with cruel e
ried along with his past. So the rumors were true; Chesnee hadn't married him for money, but for a vendetta. Her father's hidden past, the secret he died protecting, was being dragged into the light.
am's name ignited a fire in her veins. It wasn't just greed. Ches
rs curled into tight fists. Her fingernails
n office chair and footst
the agonizing pain in her abdomen, she moved as fast
, climbed into the bed, and pu
door to her room
She forced her chest to rise a
cast a long, sinister shadow across Carlota's bed. Chesnee
asleep, Chesnee quietly closed the
ere no longer the eyes of a victim. They were c
ut of the back of her hand. Blood welled up, dripping
with one's soul. She had spent years trying to be 'normal' for Graham, choosing the humiliation of a contract marriage and crushing debt just to keep him away from that world. Bu
umber she hadn't called in years-a number that wou
before a raspy voic
er, her voice trembling with cold rage. "I
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