Cold husband burning regret

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Wesley gently brushed her hand aside, his expression cold and distant. “If you truly cared about her, you would have come back to see her sooner.”

Zoe’s smile froze, and she said nothing.

“I have things to take care of. I’ll be leaving now.”

“All right.”

Zoe watched as he got into his car and drove away. The smile slowly faded from her face. She slipped out her phone and dialed a number. “Did you hand over the test results?”

After hearing the response on the other end, a look of satisfaction crossed her features. Her lips curled into a dark, sinister smile. “Sean Rayburn… You and your wife want your daughter back, but I won’t make it that easy for you.”

All those years ago, she’d switched her own stillborn infant with their child. There was no way she’d ever let them find their real daughter now.

At the nurses‘ station, Charlotte was reviewing Stevenson’s medical chart with a focused look when Judd appeared behind her without warning. “Is that chart really that fascinating?”

She started and turned around. “Professor Carstairs–you’re back? I thought you’d gone home for the day.”

“I did go home, but I haven’t retired yet, you know.” He glanced at the chart in her hands, then asked, “Is there a problem?”

“No… Mr. Donovan’s already been moved to a regular room. He’s recovering well.”

She set the chart aside.

But Judd wasn’t about to let it go that easily. “Then what are you looking at?”

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have a daughter? She still hasn’t come to see him. I guess I was just

the excuse hang

in other

“Do I? Not really.”

on her. “Is that so? Because Gentry told me

asking him about me and my

caught off

she ever asked about

When?

“That wasn’t me. He-”

Gentry called Judd from

look–she thought she caught a

could only swallow the rest of

in the heart of

home, unable to hide his excitement as he shared the news Julian had given him. “Laurinda! We found her.

doll in her arms, confusion clouding her face as she tilted her head at him. “What are you talking about? Our daughter’s always been

the doll in her embrace and felt a

arm around her shoulders, and whispered, “When she’s back, you’ll be so

daughter’s coming home?” Laurinda’s eyes lit up, a joyful sparkle returning to

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long since she’d