His Unwanted Bride, Another Man's Queen

Farme

in the hospital.

on

She was seventy years old, a woman of soft hands and iron will, who hated

d lullabies, fiercely shielding me fro

omething wrong. The Mckay security deta

had pul

to guard Diana while she

scharge papers when my pho

there's been

stopped

by a vehicle crossing 5th A

my hospital gown flapping around my legs, igno

as absol

ehind the desk, f

ped, gripping the cou

, looking frazzled. "We're waiting for a v

he surgeon?

" she said, avoiding my eyes. "Mr. Mc

o

ouldn't be

, slamming my hand against the

e top floor, the scene befo

ing visibly annoyed. Diana was sitting in

creamed, runn

is eyes narrowi

ing a sce

ed, grabbing his lapels and shaking him. "Y

s away, smoothing

calmly. "She hit her no

r washing over me. "Hertha is bleeding

ur said, his voice ice. "Diana is famil

surgery standing next to h

. I want to make sure

his feet. "Arthur, please. I'm pregnant.

n't he

imply chose not

er lie, another desperate

ove Miss Farme

d me backward tow

he surgeon examined Diana

until my

the ER, the room had falle

ove trauma bay

pulling off bloody gloves

ftly. "We couldn't stop

, the cold tile pres

a was

as surely as if he had be

he funeral t

ber, with Diana clinging t

apology to me, her

hadn't distracted the guards with your drama

dded in a

f his jacket pocket and

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I had planned to marry, the fath

the man I loved

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