Rejected, And Became A Heiress

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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

when I see Alaric enter

him.

of Mia's test results came back. She wanted me to show this to you, and she'll come back

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

deciphering the information. It appears that Mia has temporarily stabilized, but we still

plenty more questions with no

force so low he almost

least Mia is safe for now... Until the

mental notes about the test results, questions to be

"I heard about your friend, Ruby. She mentioned

spot at the Illari Medical School. They have specialists there who understand quite a bit more than we do about

back at me. "That's wonderful Please give her my congratulations for securing

I

looks at Mia, watching her sleep just as I had been

daughter's bedside. But only one of us knows that she's OUR

I don't understand..." He speaks slowly, seemingly choosing his words very carefully. Like he's trying