After the Last Tear: Rising from the Ashes of a Broken Marriage By Cassila K

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.

love, raw grief, and pure hatred. He frowned but might as well have

rasped, barely audible but determined as hell. "Did any part of you ever actually care about me? And if not...

his face completely blank"You look 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 they wheeled her

fucking pathetic. Her "special connection" with Alistair had just been because she looked

wonder Elaine had tried to warn her that Alistair was emotionally bankrupt.No wonder he'd done a complete 180 about dumping her when

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

was never about her-just her face and

nurses whispered

like this. She also never thought Alistair

to save this same baby.Now it was just another casualty he'd tossed aside

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

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

the gray sky, Vivian let out a raspy laugh.