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.

cocktail of broken love, raw grief, and

of you ever actually care about me? And if not... why did you fight so hard for

several failed attempts to make her let go, he finally answered, his face completely blank"You look like someone from my past. I wanted a kid who reminded me of her.

limp. She stared up at the ceiling

had

Alistair was emotionally bankrupt.No wonder he'd done a complete 180 about dumping her when she got pregnant. No wonder he jumped through hoops

over whether the kid would look like mom or dad,

was never about her-just her face and what

her eyes as nurses whispered their

this. She also never thought Alistair would actually terminate

save this

eyes fixed on nothing. When she

woman spoke at first, letting silence fill the room except

let out a raspy laugh.

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