Your Regret, My Revenge

ide open in the boundless darkness and sil

hile, I picked

and sent an extremely br

I need to leave. Now. I

wn, her r

ll proceeding per pl

e

was

he messages, hid the phone aga

nto the room as usual, carr

activities, but his spirits were high, a smug satis

y today. Can't stay with you at noon. I made you nutritional

d ease, the lie rolling off his tong

t going to any

the early morning. Vincent had scheduled a full prenatal checkup

e doting father t

e perfect window

tingly hypocrite face

go ahead. Don't

down as usual and planted a perfunctor

losed, I poured his s

toiletry item in the bathroom bearing m

a clean set of

e of the bed, waiting

ered the private hospital's underground garage and he had accompanie

me time, a knock

nurse, nor w

osing. Behind him was a five-person te

hite coats and masks,

asual clothes, tall and straight. His features were

me a chat log with Hilary on his phone. "Hilary sent me to

s Hilary'

," I said

e on pleasantries. He

ive Care, Do Not Disturb" sign on the door and s

IV needle from the back of my hand, pressi

We will ensure your comf

obile gurney, covered with a ster

routes. Instead, they accessed a staff-only elevator requiring a special

ambulance with special p

d. I was quickl

tly, without sirens, leaving the hospit

city, finally stopping at a h

plane stood ready on the r

from the ambulan

ed out the small window one last time, gazing dow

everything grew smaller, fainter

e, Vin

, my de

off in the stratosphere

nts opposite me, immediately stood, adjusted th

ne more thing I need

't ask what,

paper and pen

ment. At the end, I signed

r sheet, I wrot

I want none of what's yours.

th copies of all the evidence I'd

it to S

nightstand in my hospital room?" I loo

for a few seconds, then acc

rig

relief washed over me, unli

ost complete bre

lying toward

.

nished the full prenata

n the screen, smiling and saying, "All indicators are perfectly healthy. A very lively b

nd image inside his jacket, as i

he glanced at his Patek Philippe.

party was too lively, he'd been forced to dr

said. She would believe anyt

hased container of hot

o see her sickly face, still full o

door open, he was met

lean, almost devoid of personal ite

with military precision, as if no o

roze on Vin

? Brenn

unned disbelief, a trace of panic

the bathroom.

oset. Only a few hosp

was

anger. He thought Brenna w

s fell on the

lay there, sil

r, snatched up the fold

lipped out