Just A Substitute: The Don's Lost Love
ie
n, humming with a sterile, aggressive elec
e burns across my stomach were angry red w
rmured to the doctor, her voice a professi
snappe
rd scraped out
didn't know? Your HCG levels are elevated.
vanish. Pregnant
htened until his knuckles turned white.
anic rising like bile. "
rauma... there's spotting. We need to mon
ike everything
l him," I
David
omes... don't tell him abo
child-a child created in freedom-he wo
mised, his voice fierce. "
Locks didn't stop him;
ter, the curta
He was out of brea
t the bandages. "I came as soon a
positioning himself like a shield betwee
are. It was... chaoti
ice was weak, but steady. "You saved
r, ignoring David. H
for the best plastic surge
old signet, scraped against my fingernail. It
pologies d
, Marcus
," he said, pulling a cha
thing," Da
it. His brow furrowed, then instantly relaxed.
whispered. "She
ng. "Chloe forgives me for leav
n burned off, terrified of losing my baby, and he w
ity of it
"Did you hear what
k. "What? Abou
r an update. He had walked in, off
ettling deep in my bones. "Just
d up, almost eager. "I
r," I said.
g the h
g every
so dramatic, El. Get some rest. I'll see you at th
out. He whistled as h
til his foo
. "Get the lawy
ow
ht n
th against the screaming
returning the trust fund. I am renouncing the Thorne na
asked, his hand restin
ours," I said
window at the d
e leave tonight. Even if I hav
are we
word tasting like sa
sed m
ose a ward today. You lost the only
didn't ev