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.

her she might never be able to

eyes out, Eliza felt a strange sense

her drowsy state, she heard Marian, the housekeeper, calling Casper. "Her's condition isn't good.

she dead?" His voice was loud and cold, cutting

"Not yet, but..."

A woman's voice in the background chimed in, "Casper, can you help me

came through again, "Don't bother me with stuff

the pale Eliza lying on the bed. Marian knew the couple had a rocky relationship but didn't think it was this bad.

voice-it was

always called him away. All of

was a thousand times

exhausted. She needed a

The message was straightforward, asking her to come to the hospital to settle

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

because Welton International, Casper's company, owned the hospital.

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