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.

the tug, he looked down into eyes swimming with a cocktail of broken love, raw grief,

"Did any part of you ever actually care about me? And if not... why did

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. That's it. But now

limp. She stared up at the ceiling tiles, tears streaming sideways into her hair as

connection" with Alistair had just been

emotionally bankrupt.No wonder he'd done a complete 180 about

would look like mom or dad, and force-fed her

her-just her face and what

whispered

expected to find Vivian like this. She

this same baby.Now it was

in the hospital bed, eyes fixed on nothing. When she heard Elaine enter, she didn't even look

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

staring out at the gray sky, Vivian let out a

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