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 able to

her eyes out, Eliza felt a

Casper. "Her's condition isn't good. Perhaps you could

His voice was loud

"Not yet, but..."

voice in the background chimed in, "Casper, can you

voice came through again, "Don't bother

glance at the pale Eliza lying on the bed. Marian knew the couple had a rocky relationship but

voice-it was

over the phone always called him away. All of Eliza's nightmares were filled with

was a thousand times more important than Eliza could ever

closed her eyes, feeling exhausted.

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

on the other end 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

Welton International, Casper's company, owned the hospital. It seemed like he was no longer willing to handle

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