Chapter 1069:

Turning slowly, she lowered her arm and looked over her shoulder.

He was really there—this wasn’t a trick of the light or her imagination. Kristopher stood just a few steps behind, his face cast in sharp angles beneath the sun, concern resting behind his usual calm.

The bright light had left her vision slightly spotted, and for a second, everything felt just a bit off.

Even so, she had no interest in figuring out what was going through his head. Instead, she dropped her gaze, stepped away from him, and replied softly, “Yes.”

His eyes drifted to the papers in her hands. One look at the scan, and his tone shifted. “Is something wrong with the baby?”

He remembered hearing rumors—about the bullet wound, the supposed infertility. Her pregnancy must have been anything but easy. Unbidden, a memory surfaced. That hazy night at the hotel. Blurred, but not forgotten.

it came a dangerous thought—what if the child was

fine. I’m just here for a routine check-up.” She guarded those words carefully. To her, this child wasn’t

her calm delivery, Kristopher didn’t buy it. Appointments like this usually happened in the morning, not immediately after

he could tell she didn’t want to talk. So for once,

were already fragile. Pushing too hard now would only

tale finds a home at

he’d ordered weaving toward the curb. When he glanced back, he noticed Kristopher

easy look on Daxton’s face vanished. In a few long strides, he

stare landed squarely on Kristopher, calm but unmistakably

if Daxton’s presence

used. Anything built on unstable ground was bound to collapse

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