The Price Of Unspoken Love

Daniel

and shoving them back into their bottles, hiding the labels from his piercing gaze. M

embling as I stuffed everything back into my bag. I refu

who could read my every thought. Then the mask of indifference slid back into place. He

ncing a sleeping Kenzie in her arms. Kenzie' s small face was peaceful,

her lawyer? After everything?" She shook her head in disbelief. "I remember when you first got together, he

ul sting. "That was a long ti

e, you have to tell him. Tell him Kenzie is his daught

a rolled throug

y n

ds tasting like poison. "He has a wife. A son.

her woman, a woman whose family had destroyed ours. A life where she would be a constant, unwelcome reminder of a past h

"He wouldn't want her. Not from me. His new wife... she would never be ki

er die than subj

The world tilted, the hallway blurring into a swirl of beige and white. I saw Sar

onitor. Sarah was asleep in the chair beside my bed, her face etched with worry.

outside my room. A child was crying-a high, t

as K

ew back the thin hospital blanke

wake. "The doctor said you need to rest! Ke

ed the sound of her sobs to a small waiting area, where a crowd had gathered. In the

y!" a little boy shouted, pointin

the pregnant lady!" a woman in the crowd

gawkers, my heart hammerin

y arms, holding her tight. "I

obbed into my shoulder. "I tr

cut through the noise.

re, and clinging to his arm, looking pale and fragi

avily against him. "That little girl... she ran

He was looking at me, his expression unreadable, and then h

Ken

, the dark curl of her hair, the stubborn set of her small chin. He sa

her from his gaze, from the truth that was sud

s," I said, my voice shaking but

me, the mask of fragility slipped. I saw a flas

ced with disbelief and hatred. "E

daughter of the man who sold toxic building materials! The man who got my uncle

tares, their judgment, burning into me. I covered

"She did it on purpose, Bryan! She's trying to