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.

tug, he looked down into eyes swimming with a cocktail of broken love, raw grief, and pure hatred. He frowned but might as well have been looking at

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

blank"You look like someone from my past.

fingers went limp. She stared up at the ceiling tiles, tears streaming

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

done a complete 180 about dumping her when she got pregnant. No wonder he

look like

face and what

as nurses whispered their pity, making everything ten times

to find Vivian like this. She also

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

on nothing. When she heard Elaine enter, she didn't

fill the room except for the

let out a raspy

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