I Never Regretted Leaving You (Can't Win Me Back)

Chapter 36

Isabella’s thoughts traveled through the long river of time:

For the sake of her child, she had pleaded with him to cancel or delay the surgery.

But his face was colder than ever. Taking a drag on his cigarette, he exhaled a cloud of smoke and said emotionlessly, “Isabella, Victoria has waited too long for this moment. I don’t want her to wait any longer. The longer she waits, the more she suffers.”

“But I’m pregnant with your child. If you harm my body now, the child will be in danger,” she begged.

“The child can be aborted. We can always have another one later,” he replied coldly.

“Husband, please, no… This is *our* child. I don’t want to lose it,” she cried.

“If you want to keep it, then keep it,” he said indifferently.

She thought he had softened, that he would spare their child.

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But what happened later?

onto

his word, he let her give birth, but after being subjected to excessive medication, she delivered a frail child with

congenital health issues.

once looked the child

herself to abandon her baby. Carefully and tenderly, she raised the child, who eventually grew into a delicate,

was as exquisite as a porcelain doll, utterly

to the ailing Victoria because their blood

assured her, “It’s just blood donation. Nothing will

onto a shred of trust in

her daughter came home after

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his connections to open a green channel for

his influence, it would have taken

side instead. He hung up on Isabella’s calls countless times, and the last time, he yelled at her

see a doctor if you’re sick. Don’t disturb your Sis’s rest.”

he hung

wasted time, even as she pleaded for his help. She called 911, arranged for her child to be taken to the

she was

out of the hospital cradling her

sliver of attachment she had to the world.