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.

I say

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

him.

a moment, but some of Mia's test results came back. She wanted me

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and symbols that only make sense to me thanks to

has temporarily stabilized, but

still plenty more

his force so

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

about the test results, questions to be asked when

those light blue eyes. "I heard about your friend, Ruby. She mentioned

School. They have specialists there

"That's wonderful Please give her my congratulations for securing

I

looks at Mia, watching her

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

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