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Escaping The Ruthless CEO With My Baby

Chapter 4 The Last Straw

Word Count: 589    |    Released on: Today at 10:48

A lazy, practiced smile touched his lips, but it

sn't Mrs. Lawson. Didn't your tyrant of a husband lock you in

. She forced herself to ignore the sting o

The day you married Aloysius Lawson, I told you th

Carlisle families, a bitter rivalry that had spanned gen

know," she whispered. "Bu

You chose to save Shaw Consortium. A noble sacrif

exposing the raw, transactional truth of her marriage. A wave of dizziness

eir shared history. "Juli

ay she became Mrs. Lawson." He took a sip of his whiskey. "Besides, Aloysius made it very clear I was to sta

of pride and old family wounds, but it was also fear. Or at least, a very pragmatic

er final option. The friend who was once closer to her tha

lass on the balustrade with a soft clink

said, his voice laced with a cruel finality. "Y

h. Her heart, already fractured, felt like it was sinking in

r bones. Across the terrace, through the glass doors, she saw Aloysius. He was wa

y genuine, a shield for his family's interests. Bu

sult was the same.

nctual act, Izora reached out and grabbed the sleev

roken whisper, thick with te

didn't turn around, but he di

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Escaping The Ruthless CEO With My Baby
Escaping The Ruthless CEO With My Baby
“I held the positive pregnancy report, hoping it would finally bring a trace of warmth to my cold, transactional marriage with Aloysius Lawson. Instead, he didn't even glance at it. He slid a medical consent form across his massive desk and coldly ordered me to abort the baby. His sister Eloisa's leukemia had relapsed. She needed a bone marrow transplant, and I was the only match. He accused me of carrying another man's bastard, completely denying the one chaotic night we actually spent together. When I desperately sought help from my childhood friend Julian at a gala, he publicly humiliated me, terrified of my husband's wrath. Aloysius's mistress mocked me in front of the elite crowd, while my own mother begged me to save our family's failing company, oblivious that the price was my baby's life. Aloysius dragged me home, bruising my arms, and threatened to destroy anyone who dared to help me. I begged him, offering to wait three weeks for a DNA test to prove the child was his true heir. "Why would I wait three weeks?" he sneered, his eyes devoid of humanity. "Eloisa doesn't have three weeks. It has to go." I was entirely alone, treated as nothing more than a blood bag and a pawn. Why was my flesh and blood worth absolutely nothing to them? Sitting in the sterile room of the private abortion clinic, holding the flimsy blue scrubs he forced me to wear, my despair finally hardened into pure rage. When the nurse urged me to hurry, I dropped the scrubs to the floor. "I'm waiting for someone," I said, my voice eerily steady as I took the first step to destroy them all.”