Chapter 20

Tears poured down her face.

When she reached for his arm, Alistair stepped back.

"Please, I'll give up everything else just let me keep my baby," she sobbed. "I swear to God I'll-"

"Can someone get her prepped already?" Alistair cut her off, snapping at the deer- in-headlights nurses.

Her screams faded down the hallway as they finally pulled her away. Alistair just stood there, staring after them, his mind a million miles away.

The pre-op went by the book. They wheeled her into surgery with her still begging for mercy. But those tears couldn't touch him anymore.

Half an hour later, they rolled Vivian out of the OR.

Alistair didn't spare her a glance until she grabbed his suit jacket with whatever strength she had left as they passed him talking to the doctor.

with a cocktail of broken love, raw grief, and pure hatred. He frowned but might as well have

ever actually care about me?

his face completely blank"You look like someone from my past. I wanted a kid who reminded me of her. That's it.

those words, her fingers went limp. She stared up at the ceiling tiles, tears streaming sideways into

Her "special connection" with Alistair had just been

warn her that Alistair was emotionally bankrupt.No wonder he'd done a complete 180

obsessed over whether the kid would look like mom or dad, and force-fed

her-just her face and what it reminded

stabbed her eyes as nurses whispered their pity,

this. She also never thought Alistair would actually

her father die to save this

bed, eyes fixed on nothing. When she heard Elaine enter,

letting silence fill the room except for the steady drip-drip of

gray sky, Vivian let out a raspy

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