Broken Vows by Tessa Montgomery

Chapter26

Five months pregnant, I got called back to the hospital for an emergency C–section on New Year’s Eve.

Halfway through the surgery, I heard a man’s desperate voice from the door.

“Sar! Don’t be scared. I’m here! After you have the baby, I’l marry you, okay?”

The familiar voice made me freeze for a bit.

As soon as the surgery was done, the guy rushed in to hold Sarah Mitchell with red–rimmed eyes.

Seeing his face, I recognized who he was–my husband of five years, Antonio Kaufman.

I stared at him, stunned.

After a moment, I rasped out, “Congrats. It’s a 2.86–kilo baby boy.”

Antonio didn’t even glance at the baby, let alone notice me.

“Sweetie, thank you for giving me a son. You’re my one and only. Sar, I love you.”

He trembled with excitement as he pecked Sarah’s forehead.

It was so sincere and beautiful.

Exactly like the scene I had dreamed of when I imagined

giving birth.

Except, I wasn’t the one in the spotlight.

A few newly recruited nurses whispered to each other, their faces full of admiration.

“They’re so in love! I’ve never seen a man go to his wife first after childbirth!”

“I’m so jealous! She’s dead lucky to have a man like him.”

I trembled all over, my blood running cold.

Antonio had been peeling shrimp for me at our New Year’s

relatives teased him for

bothered at all.

the corner of my mouth, he said, “Since Grace got pregnant, she’s been craving everything. I’m always the one peeling her shrimp. If I don’t, she throws a fit

bit confused, as I’d never thrown a fit.

I didn’t

his dad offered him a toast, he

alcohol is gonna turn her stomach. As her husband, I

so

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now, all that was left

watching as the nurse wheeled Sarah into her ward and took

my bestie, yanked off my mask, her

concern.

kind of misunderstanding between you and Antonio?”

tears welling up in my eyes.

when I told him I was pregnant

then, I thought he was just overwhelmed with joy.

held me tight,

going to be a dad!

I wasn’t planning to quit my job, his face darkened, his tone a

work, and you’ll have a hard time

him down.

I couldn’t help but feel

suggestion about getting an abortion were exactly how he

sense,

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have a hard

would be easier.

from his beloved.

passed by Sarah’s ward. Seeing

the hospital, Chloe pulled

my hand resting on my protruding

voice was hoarse but firm.

January 7. And work