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042 - The Hospital That Exposed Everything

Author: Billie Patsy
last update publish date: 2026-03-28 03:16:00

SCARLETT

The drive to the hospital felt like walking straight into a trap I couldn’t escape.

I gripped the steering wheel of the new black Mercedes Ethan had given me, knuckles turning white. The city blurred past the windows, but my mind was somewhere else — on the tiny life growing inside me, on the ultrasound pictures still tucked in my bag, on the secret I was desperately trying to protect.

Ethan had insisted on following me in his own car.

I had told him not to come.

“I don’t need you ther
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