Sacrificed Everything For A Heartless Man

ated my company and handed him my entire inherita

ildren' s hospital wing-to build luxury condos for his mistress, Ka

verheard the words that shatt

ation," Dante whispered to Karly on the

acrifice I' d made into a weakness. The man whose new empire was bu

vice, trying to harm our unborn child. When Dante found me broken on the floor, h

ent eerily calm. He thought I was nothing without h

pte

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ante Guy, and he thanked me by

the phone' s speaker, a thin thread of sanity in the sterile quiet of the lawyer

, the ink a stark, unforgiving black. It represented the end of eve

tter than I intended. "Guy Construction is on

im their architectural firm on a silver platter to merge with his failing company. Y

pulling me toward a decision I knew, deep down, was

d, more to myself than to her. "

with a skepticism I refused to acknowl

st last week, the place where the St. Jude' s Children' s Hospital wing once stood. The wing my parents, two of the most cele

. He hadn' t told me. He' d orchestrated the demolition behind my back, a secret d

' d said, his voice smooth as polished stone. "Your

tuary for sick children-and turned it into rubble for a woman he w

saved his company the first time hadn' t been real. It had soured int

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hollow space in my chest that had never healed. They were gone. And the

w whisper. The ink bled from the pen onto the

ou can walk away. Y

like a sob. "He would never let me go. You know h

work? For what? A man who cheated on you and then

ny anymore," I said, my voice hard

oss the table to my lawyer, who

," I explained, my gaze fixed on the papers that sealed

in, her voice was thick with unshed tears. "Your par

ed a cold path down my cheek.

, the pen dropping from my numb fingers. "They die