The muscles in Casper's jaw clenched as he yanked the bottle of pills from her hand and gripped her chin tightly. "You like your meds, huh? Fine, then down the whole lot."

He poured the white pills from the bottle into her mouth while she struggled to break free.

"You want 'em? Then take 'em all at once." He grabbed a glass of water from the shelf and forced it down Eliza's throat.

She started choking and coughing violently as she tried to expel the pills. Half of the hundred pills in the bottle went down her throat.

Eliza started gagging...

"Eliza, you better pray you never have my kid."

Casper let go of her roughly, picked up his jacket, and slammed the bedroom door shut behind him.

Stumbling, Eliza rushed to the bathroom to force herself to vomit. In the end, she had to be rushed to the hospital to get her stomach pumped.

Even though she got there in time, some of the medication had already entered her bloodstream, causing varying degrees of damage to her heart, liver, and kidneys. The high dose of hormones had triggered premature ovarian failure.

doctor told her she might never be

her eyes out, Eliza felt a

state, she heard Marian, the housekeeper, calling Casper. "Her's condition

dead?" His voice was loud

"Not yet, but..."

voice in the background chimed in, "Casper, can

through again, "Don't bother

a click, and in the silence that followed, Marian cast a pitying glance at the pale Eliza lying on the bed. Marian knew the couple had a rocky

voice-it was

Casper came home, Nova's sweet voice over the phone always called him away.

heart, Nova was a thousand times more important

her eyes, feeling exhausted. She

Eliza woke again, she got a call from a nurse at the hospital where her mother was staying. The message was straightforward, asking her to come to

sounded apologetic. "Ms. Eliza, the hospital is settling accounts, and your mother's treatment has been unpaid for a year now. We kindly ask you to settle the bill, or it might affect her

Casper's company, owned the hospital. It

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