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Chapter 2
The door creaked open. Arthur walked in with Marcus Kingswell.
“She’s asleep,” Arthur murmured.
He sounded a little guilty–but still, his first question was: “The baby… it’s gone, right?”
Marcus hesitated. “There was… a complication.”
Arthur’s expression changed instantly. “What do you mean ‘complication‘? You were supposed to
make sure-!”
“Not with the baby,” Marcus interrupted. “With her.”
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Arthur let out a long breath, his tension visibly easing. “That’s fine, then. As long as the baby didn’t make it.”
His words hit harder than any blow.
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There was a time when I so much as stubbed my toe, and he would scoop my foot into his arms and kiss it to make it better.
He used to say, “A kiss will take the pain away.”
I believed that his love could wrap around me, fill every corner of my world.
But in the end… I was the only one who believed it.
How pathetic.
“So, what exactly happened?” Arthur asked.
“She can’t have children anymore,” Marcus replied quietly.
His voice was filled with reluctant pity. “She suffered damage to the uterine lining.”
“That’s the worst–case scenario I’d expected,” Arthur muttered. “It’s fine–I’ve already contacted a specialist in the States-”
“Arthur,” Marcus snapped. “Do you think everything always goes the way you plan?”
“She doesn’t have a uterus anymore. She’ll never be pregnant again.”
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