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I lifted my gaze to him through a haze of pain, and whisper: “Is this what you wanted all along?”
His entire body froze. When he finally looked down at me, his eyes were so bloodshot they seemed
to bleed.
His Adam’s apple bobbed violently, but he couldn’t utter a single word.
“Baby, it’s not–God, it’s not what you think. Just get through this, both of you, and I swear I’ll explain
everything.”
His hand shook violently as it reached for my face, then stopped, hovering in the space between us.
“Liv, please… fight for us!”
They rushed me into surgery.
The doctor’s words fell like hammer blows: the baby’s heartbeat was gone. They needed to induce
delivery immediately.
Under the hazy veil of partial anesthesia, I felt my child slipping away from my body forever.
My beautiful baby–seven months of secret conversations, tiny kicks against my ribs.
My baby. I failed you. I’m so, so sorry.
While I was unconscious, countless memories came flooding back to me.
Jake covered in blood, bursting into that private room like a crazy beast.
His fists connecting with flesh and bone, the crunch of breaking jaws mixed with screams of agony.
His arms4ifting my broken body, his voice splintering with terror, hot tears falling onto my face.
“Liv, god, please… stay with me. Don’t you dare leave me!”
Later, he spent every penny to buy my freedom from that hellhole.
Living in our tiny house together.
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He worked three jobs every day, always tiptoeing when he came home late at night, terrified of
waking me.
The day he learned I was pregnant, he crouched in the bathroom and sobbed like a child.
But Jake’s face gradually overlapped with Chris’s in my mind!
Chris–the man who destroyed my father, my mother, and me.
I opened my eyes to the harsh fluorescent lights and Jake’s face suddenly filled my vision.
He looked utterly destroyed–dark stubble, and raccoon–like shadows beneath his eyes, as if hadn’t
slept for days.
“Ahhh-!” I clutched my head and screamed as memories crashed through me.
“Liv, what’s wrong?”
He reached for me frantically, but I slapped his hand away.
I scrambled backward until my spine hit the cold headboard.
Jake’s eyes welled with unmistakable anguish.
“Liv, it’s okay. I’m right here.”
His outstretched hand froze midair, visibly trembling.
“Alright, I won’t touch you.” His voice was ragged. “But you just had surgery–please don’t move like that. You’ll tear your stitches.”
“Stitches?”
I looked down at my flattened stomach and felt my heart shatter into a million pieces.
And the monster responsible for this nightmare stood right in front of me.
I grabbed the fruit knife from the bedside table and aimed it straight at his throat.
“Get the fuck out.”
He didn’t even flinch. He just stared at me with bloodshot eyes swimming with desperation.
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“Olivia.”
“Shut up!”
I slashed wildly at his arm, but he caught the blade in his bare hand.
Blood dripped through his fingers onto the floor, yet he showed no sign of pain–just gripping the
knife, letting the steel slice through his palm.
“Liv, I’m so sorry.”
I burst into hysterical laughter while tears streamed down my face. “Jake. I remember everything
now.”
His body jerked as if he’d been tasered, the color draining from his face instantly.
“Why? Why the hell would you lie to me like this?”
“I’m sorry, God, I’m so sorry, Liv.” He collapsed to his knees, his tall frame folding. “I never wanted
this. I swear I never wanted any of this.”
Jake wrenched the knife from my grasp.
“I’m Alexander Landry’s son. He’s a corporate sociopath who treats his children like stocks to be
evaluated. He has women everywhere, thirteen sons in total.”
“My mother was just another conquest. After she had me, his wife… his wife had her eliminated.”
His fingers unconsciously tightened around the blade, cutting deeper.
“I needed payback. I needed his company, his power, everything he valued.”
Through tears, I demanded, “So I was just collateral damage? Because Maxwell Industries competed with Landry Corp–wiping us out was your ticket into your father’s good graces?”
Jake closed his eyes in anguish, and after a long moment, slowly nodded.
CRACK!
I slapped him with everything I had. His face snapped sideways, blood trickling from his split lip, but he made no move to defend himself.
My voice trembled with rage: “You’re absolutely a fucking asshole!”
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He gave a hollow laugh, his eyes rimmed red. “Yeah. I deserve to death. But if you could not mad at
me, I’ll do whatever you want.”
I screamed, turning to bolt for the door. “I want to never see you again!”
