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

part of you ever actually

like someone from my past. I wanted a kid who

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

with Alistair had just been because she

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

wonder he'd obsessed over whether the kid would look like mom or

was never about her-just her face and

as nurses whispered their pity, making

She also never thought Alistair would actually terminate

save this same baby.Now it was

eyes fixed on nothing. When she

at first, letting silence fill the room except for the

Vivian let out a raspy laugh. "Congrats,

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