Chapter 3

When mentioning that bastard child, the disgust in Vincent’s eyes grew thicker. He wished. Kristin would just drop dead.

Back in the day. Kristin slept with another guy in a hotel, dragging the FitzGerald family name through the mud. To top it off, she got knocked up and popped out that bastard right before she had been thrown in the slammer.-

Desperate, Kristin gazed at Vincent as if she never truly knew him. “The child… The child is innocent.” she implored.

“Innocent? When Ruby got swapped into your trashy life, she was innocent, too,” Mamie shrieked, her voice sharp, and slapped Kristin across the face twice more for good measure.

If Johnnie hadn’t stepped in, she probably would’ve kept going until she felt better.

Her ears ringing. Kristin dropped her gaze and allowed the blows from Mamie to land on her

swollen face.

She had a debt to repay for twenty–one years of care and upbringing. The time had come to settle it.

Taking a deep breath, Kristin’s eyes welled with tears as she looked up at Vincent, her voice. weak but resolute. “I’ll donate the kidney…

She’d do anything if they spared her child.

his heart tightened, but he didn’t let her off the hook. “Take her to get checked. Give her to the

gone was the earlier cowardice and begging.

her own, a mess but with a determined look in her eyes as

clued into my situation… If I give you a kidney, that clears my tab, right? So,

ago nearly cost her life,

flicker of emotion in his

raised her for twenty–one years. Kristin had

atone even after death!” But Mamie wasn’t willing to let

donation and promise to stick to the straight and narrow afterwards, we’ll cut you loose,

Chapter 3

Kristin laughed weakly.

were, she probably wouldn’t

life for twenty–one years!” Yet Vincent didn’t seem satisfied, as if he wanted to grind her into dust.

to Ruby. Wasn’t that enough? What more did I have to do to atone? What did I

“If you hate me that much. scatter my ashes after I die.”

were pale, her appearance a mess. “Leave my child

Even then, she was still protecting that bastard!

Vincent, his eyes mocking as he looked at Kristin. “You’re downright

vision went dark, and before she could leave

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