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.

might never be

out, Eliza felt a strange sense

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

she dead?" His voice was loud and

"Not yet, but..."

the background chimed in, "Casper, can you

again, "Don't bother me

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

voice-it was

home, Nova's sweet voice over the phone always called him away. All of Eliza's nightmares were filled with that

heart, Nova was a thousand times more

closed her eyes, feeling exhausted.

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

Eliza, the hospital is settling accounts, and your mother's treatment has been unpaid for a year

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

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