Chapter 7

Atlas cut her off, his voice razor–sharp.

The storm in his eyes was suffocating, like a force ready to consume everything in its path.

The young nurse faltered, swallowing hard before stammering, “M–Mr. Whitmore, you… you didn’t know?”

Her hesitation only made his patience snap further.

She took a shaky breath before forcing the words out. “Mrs. Whitmore… she was pregnant. Six weeks.”

Silence.

Atlas’s grip on the divorce papers tightened as his entire body locked up.

“She was pregnant,” the nurse continued, her voice trembling, “but she–she fell down the stairs. We don’t know exactly what happened, but… she lost the baby.”

A shudder ran through him. Something cracked deep within his chest, something raw and brutal.

Celeste had been carrying his child. And now, that life was gone.

His fingers trembled as he looked down at the papers in his hand. For the first time in his life, Atlas felt fear—real,

gut–wrenching, paralyzing fear.

His pulse pounded in his ears.

She had wanted this child. For five years, she had wanted a child with him.

And now-

pain twisting through

knew. He knew why they had never conceived before. The guilt

own

don’t you think you owe me an apology for what happened back then?“*

known? Had she already known when she asked him that

she looked at him that night and seen him for what he truly was?

jaw, his voice hoarse when he finally spoke. “Find

weeks.”

“And find out

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handed over the reports. “Mr. Whitmore, the hospital’s hallway security footage was

Atlas’s fingers twitched.

we’ve already begun questioning every patient and staff member who was on that floor at the time.

the words, his attention already locked onto

video from the

twisted violently as he

room, gripping the doorframe so

body was

moment she turned around, he saw it. Her pupils had dilated, her eyes unfocused, dazed, as if her entire world had

Atlas’s breath hitched.

been standing outside that room-“his” private lounge–when he had

everything.

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