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,

hell. "Did any part of you ever actually care about me? And

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

ceiling tiles, tears streaming sideways into her

connection" with Alistair had just been because she looked like some dead

Elaine had tried to warn her that 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

obsessed over whether the kid would look

face and

as nurses whispered

She also never thought Alistair

ago, he'd essentially let her father die to save this same

on nothing.

the room except for

staring out at the gray sky, Vivian let out a raspy laugh. "Congrats, Elaine.

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