Rejected, And Became A Heiress

Please Became 116

Chapter 0116

Cara's POV

I watch my daughter's chest rise and fall in a slow and steady rhythm, sleep finally taking a firm and well-deserved hold on her. My head is spinning with complicated emotions.

This isn't the first time Mia has asked me to give her a Daddy. I know her little heart yearns for a father... yearns to be like all the other kids who have two parents.

I so greatly want to be able to grant her wish. As a mother, I want to give my daughter everything her heart desires.

Bedford had just asked me to marry him, but there's no way I could let someone like him be the father of my child. If there's a quickest and most fitting solution to this... it might just be Alaric.

But Alaric, but this... This is such a complex, indescribably tenuous situation... How could I begin to explain that to my six-year-old daughter?

I can't, because she could never understand.

So here I sit, lost in thought at her bedside, watching her sleep.

There's a knock at the door. Maybe it's one of the nurses coming to tend to Mia.

in," I say

breath catches in my chest when I see Alaric enter the room, closing the

him.

me to show this to you, and she'll come back later

11

numbers and symbols that only make sense to me thanks to all of our routine trips to this hospital. I realize how much I've

has temporarily stabilized,

more

his force so low he almost sounds

the paper At least Mia is safe for now... Until the next time she has

notes about the test results, questions to be

me with those light blue eyes. "I

They have specialists there who understand quite a bit

wonderful Please give her my congratulations for securing

will," I say

down to sit in the seat next to me. He looks at Mia, watching her sleep

at our daughter's bedside. But only one of us knows

Alaric speaks. "I just... Well, I don't understand..." He speaks slowly,