Chapter 5
Inside the gift box was a glass jar filled with blood–tinged fluid. Inside, you could faintly make out the shape of a
Gregory’s hands couldn’t hold it anymore. Crimson liquid splashed everywhere.
“What is that thing? That’s disgusting!”
Aubrey clamped a hand over her mouth and backed away, looking repulsed.
My son wrinkled his nose. “Why would Mom send something like this?”
But Gregory just stood there, frozen, staring at the mess on the floor.
What was this?
A baby?
He and I had another child?
But the doctors said after Ethan was born, I probably couldn’t get pregnant again. We tried for years with no luck.
Eventually, we just gave up.
“No… that’s impossible…”
Gregory muttered to himself, then pulled out his phone and called me.
No answer.
He called again.
Sull no answer.
He called over a dozen times Every time. the same cold, robotic recording
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He almost said my name, but then the words died in his throat. He realized that earlier that day, he had allowed
everyone to call Aubrey his wife.
So he released the nurse’s arm and took a breath. “I need to see the security footage.”
The nurse obediently pulled up the day’s recordings.
Gregory’s eyes were glued to the screen. His knuckles were white on the mouse.
When I appeared on the video, his breath caught in his throat.
“Wh
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with a coworker
having doctors check his wife that afternoon, and then
woman
like regular people who don’t have pull they just the in the
The other nurse tilted her head, thinking, then looked something up in the computer. She suddenly gasped, coverin
mouth.
“No wonder that woman didn’t even cry when they said her baby was gone. It was her own mother who died.”
Gregory, sitting in the hallway, snapped his head up.
something in his mind broke.
How? How was that possible?
How could his mother–in–law be dead?
He had thought
But now.
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Sara Lili is a daring romance writer who turns icy landscapes into scenes of fiery passion. She loves crafting hot love stories while embracing the chill of Iceland’s breathtaking cold.
