A sharp, stabbing pain woke me. 3:17 AM. Alone. I reached for my husband, Mark, but he wasn' t there. My desperate call for help was answered by Lily, his goddaughter, her voice laced with annoyance. "Mark is busy. Eleanor isn' t feeling well, so he's here with me." I tried to explain about the emergency, the searing pain in my abdomen. She dismissed it as drama and hung up. Abandoned, I crawled to the phone and dialed 911, whispering, "I think I'm dying." At the hospital, the doctor' s grim face confirmed my worst fear: a ruptured ectopic pregnancy. I was bleeding internally and needed emergency surgery. Alone, I signed the consent form, my hand trembling, tears blurring Sarah Miller into a solitary figure. When I reached Mark hours later, fresh out of surgery and groggy from anesthesia, his words were cold, clipped. "What is it now, Sarah?" Before I could explain, Lily's frantic voice in the background cut me off. "Mark, come quick! Mom\'s monitor is beeping again!" He hung up, choosing her over me, over our lost baby, over my near-death experience. The love I thought was unbreakable shattered into a million pieces. The next morning, lying in the hospital bed, a cold, hard clarity settled over me. I had to make him understand. I sent him my medical reports, hoping the undeniable proof would cut through his blindness. His reply, however, sealed my fate: "Sarah, this has gone too far. Using a fake medical report to guilt-trip me is a new low." He called me manipulative, a liar. He chose her over me, again. The fight drained out of me. I typed one word: "Okay." It was over. I knew, with a certainty that chilled me to the bone, that I was done.
A sharp, stabbing pain woke me.
3:17 AM. Alone.
I reached for my husband, Mark, but he wasn' t there.
My desperate call for help was answered by Lily, his goddaughter, her voice laced with annoyance.
"Mark is busy. Eleanor isn' t feeling well, so he's here with me."
I tried to explain about the emergency, the searing pain in my abdomen.
She dismissed it as drama and hung up.
Abandoned, I crawled to the phone and dialed 911, whispering, "I think I'm dying."
At the hospital, the doctor' s grim face confirmed my worst fear: a ruptured ectopic pregnancy.
I was bleeding internally and needed emergency surgery.
Alone, I signed the consent form, my hand trembling, tears blurring Sarah Miller into a solitary figure.
When I reached Mark hours later, fresh out of surgery and groggy from anesthesia, his words were cold, clipped.
"What is it now, Sarah?"
Before I could explain, Lily's frantic voice in the background cut me off.
"Mark, come quick! Mom\'s monitor is beeping again!"
He hung up, choosing her over me, over our lost baby, over my near-death experience.
The love I thought was unbreakable shattered into a million pieces.
The next morning, lying in the hospital bed, a cold, hard clarity settled over me.
I had to make him understand.
I sent him my medical reports, hoping the undeniable proof would cut through his blindness.
His reply, however, sealed my fate: "Sarah, this has gone too far. Using a fake medical report to guilt-trip me is a new low."
He called me manipulative, a liar. He chose her over me, again.
The fight drained out of me.
I typed one word: "Okay."
It was over.
I knew, with a certainty that chilled me to the bone, that I was done.
Introduction
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Chapter 1
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Chapter 2
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Chapter 3
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Chapter 4
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Chapter 5
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Chapter 6
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Chapter 7
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Chapter 8
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Chapter 9
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Chapter 10
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Chapter 11
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Chapter 12
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Chapter 13
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Chapter 14
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Chapter 15
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Chapter 16
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Chapter 17
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Chapter 18
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Chapter 19
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Chapter 20
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Chapter 21
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Chapter 22
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Chapter 23
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Chapter 24
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Chapter 25
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Chapter 26
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Chapter 27
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