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Vivian kept talking, “You got pregnant later, remember?”
“I was so mad I refused to let him touch me, so he staged a little scene with one of his business partners and had you forced to drink until you miscarried.”
“You have no idea-while you were unconscious in the operating room, fighting for your life, he was on the phone with me, begging me not to stay mad at him.”
Her words hit me like a club to the head.
My vision went black for a second.
Vivian’s face suddenly twisted with resentment. “Even though he loved me that much, he still wouldn’t divorce you and marry me.”
“You only had the upper hand because Luca is soft-hearted and sentimental. You had the advantage of being
the woman who suffered beside him when he was still nobody.”
Then she laughed. “Tell me, if Luca found out you laid hands on the baby in my stomach, do you think he’d
still care about that little bit of history between you?”
Every hair on my body stood on end as I spun around and ran for the door.
Behind me, Vivian grabbed a champagne bottle and smashed it hard against her own belly.
Then she screamed, ‘Don! Save me!”
The dressing-room door flew open under Luca’s kick.
He caught my wrist and slammed me to the floor.
His eyes were red as he looked at Vivian collapsed on the ground, blood spreading from beneath her skirt.
‘It wasn’t me-‘
My explanation died in my throat beneath the crush of his hand.
He glared at me and roared, ‘Rita Conti! You couldn’t even spare a child? You disgust me.”
‘You made Vivian lose her baby, so don’t blame me for what I do to your dead parents.”
Through my tears of terror and pain, I heard him issue the order without a flicker of hesitation.
“Dig up Rita Conti’s parents. Grind their ashes and dump them down a sewer.”
“No!” I screamed myself raw. “Luca, you’re insane! There are cameras in the dressing room! Check them! I
didn’t do it!”
Vivian staggered to her feet, shaking.
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Then she turned and ran toward the window. “If the baby’s gone, what’s the point of me living? I might as well
die! Donna, frame me however you want!”
Luca’s face changed instantly.
He flung me aside and rushed toward Vivian, catching her in his arms.
Then he turned back to me with a hard, frozen face. “You’ve burned through the last of what I ever felt for
you.”
“You hurt the woman I love and my child. I won’t let you walk away from that.”
He looked at the people behind him and said coldly, “Send her to prison. And tell the people inside to take
very good care of her.”
“I don’t want her to have one decent day in there.”
Luca ran red lights the whole way to the hospital.
He carried Vivian straight into the ER. “Save my lover and my child! If that baby lives, I’ll donate ten million to
this hospital!”
The doctor on duty jerked in shock.
He stared at Luca, visibly stunned. “Don?”
Then he looked at Luca again, then at Vivian lying pale and delicate on the bed.
His confusion deepened. “Your child? Don, you have azoospermia. You can’t father children. Where would a
child come from?”
Luca’s face darkened in an instant.
He whipped around to stare at the doctor, fury pressed low into every word.
“What did you just say? Azoospermia? Are you trying to die? What kind of nonsense are you talking about?”
The doctor blanched and hurried to explain, “Don, I’m not making this up. That was the result of your premarital medical exam all those years ago.”
‘Didn’t Donna tell you? You do have azoospermia. You weren’t able to have children.”
At the mention of me, Luca froze for a split second.
Then he laughed in rage. “Rita Conti? How much did she pay you to put on this little show?”
The doctor looked stunned. “Don, I-”
Luca cut him off, his voice colder than ice, “What, this is to drive a wedge between me and Vivian?”
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‘Or to smear Vivian and make me think the baby she’s carrying isn’t mine?”
He let out a contemptuous laugh. ‘Go tell Rita Conti I’m not buying it. Her little tricks are so childish they
make me sick.”
“If I had azoospermia, then what was the child she carried? You expect me to believe that came from some
other man?”
The doctor’s face changed.
He still tried to explain, “Don, but-”
“Enough!” Luca lost all patience. “There’s only one thing I need from this hospital right now: Save the baby.”
“If anything happens to that child, this entire hospital will pay for it.”
The doctor’s expression turned ugly, but he could only lower his head.
‘… Yes, Don.’
The emergency treatment resumed immediately.
And right then, Luca’s phone rang.
He glanced at the screen and saw it was his assistant.
He picked up.
“What is it?”
On the other end, his assistant sounded openly panicked.
‘Don, you need to get back to the wedding venue right now. Something bad has happened.”
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