LOGINOn the day of my prenatal checkup, my husband's childhood sweetheart, Maya Crane, volunteered to drive me to the hospital herself. Halfway there, she suddenly let out a cold laugh. "Lara Quinn. You don't deserve Mason Sterling. "You don't deserve to carry his baby." My heart dropped. I clutched my stomach and tried to jump out of the car. However, before I could move, she jerked the steering wheel–sending my side of the car straight toward an oncoming truck. The truck swerved at the last second. Her side slammed into the guardrail. Maya was dead at the scene. I was hemorrhaging, and the baby almost came too early. In her last breath, dying in the wreck, she sent Mason a message. [Mason… Lara did this to me on purpose…] The police investigated for half a month and ruled me innocent. Mason grieved, but he stayed by my side, caring for me with obsessive tenderness while I recovered. The day I was discharged, he took me to the seaside. Then he shoved me into the ocean. His voice was cold and merciless. "Don't think destroying the evidence means you're safe. You caused her death. Pay for it with your life." The sea filled my lungs. And when I opened my eyes again–I was back to the day of my prenatal checkup.
View MoreThe day I picked up the divorce certificate, the sun was bright.Mason looked like all his strength had been pulled out of him. He stared at me from across the lobby and didn't say anything.I had thought the divorce would be the end of it. He hung on me like a ghost.He took an extended leave from the squad and parked himself at the front door of my building.He stood outside with roses in his hand and apologized to me in the same words, every day."Lara. I swear I will never see Maya again."I will not claim her baby. Take everything in my name. Let's start over."I looked at the man. The fixation in his eyes had only one place to go.In the moment he had decided not to save me and the baby, he had been every bit this decisive.The cheapness of him now matched it.I shut the door in his face.He did not stop. He sent flowers every day. He shipped gifts. He camped outside my office.He stepped down from his post as squad captain and took a job as a part-time barista at the
"Mason, the baby is yours…""What did you say?!"He spun toward me, voice cracking."What are you saying! Don't believe a word she says!"I have always been good to her, but I never crossed any line. Never!"You have to believe me."He sounded desperate. To me, it sounded like a punchline.Maya, white-faced, kept thrashing in the officers' grip."Mason, you don't remember?"That night you fought with Lara. You drank. I picked you up and brought you to my place."You thought I was her, and we…"She was sobbing too hard to talk."I didn't want to use this. But you can't let them take me! Not with our baby."Mason was pale, and his mouth would not stop moving."Maya. You are despicable."You made me cheat on my own wife. The harshest punishment is what you deserve."He turned away from her completely and came toward me."Lara, please! Believe me…"I never wanted to betray you! This was an accident! Please, forgive me!"I stepped back so he could not touch me.By now an
Two officers walked in fast and held Maya as she tried to bolt."Ms. Crane. We have a complaint on file."You are suspected of intentionally causing a traffic incident resulting in the death of an unborn child. Please cooperate."Maya hid behind Mason. She had gone the color of paper."Mason. I'm being framed. I didn't…"Mason stepped between her and the officers."You have the wrong person. Maya is not capable of something like this."He turned to me, his eyes sharp."Lara, tell them. Clear this up!"I gave him a small smile, opened my bag, and handed the officer my evidence."You have the right person. I called this in. This is what I gathered. I am responsible for every word I have said."It was the dashcam footage from the day of the crash.In my last life, the footage had burned with the car. This time, I had a friend at the right office pull it the day I got out of the hospital.It had Maya, in full clarity, threatening me on the way to the hospital.The voice on th
He stumbled forward and reached for my belly."The baby! Where is the baby? What happened?"The grief on his face was a sick joke.The thing I had been holding in for weeks finally came up out of me."Mason, you are asking now? Now you remember?"The day of the crash, I was pinned under the car, hemorrhaging, and you took the ambulance I called for and put your woman in it."It was you. You killed our baby."His shoulders rocked.The eyes went briefly blank. Some part of him started to remember the version of me he had stepped past on the gravel, soaked in blood."Lara… I…"His mouth was shaking. He started toward me. He put his hand out toward my stomach.In the next half-second, Maya put herself between us.She wiped at her face. Her voice came out small."Mason, the car wasn't on her stomach. There is no way the baby was killed in the crash."Maybe Lara herself. Maybe she got rid of the baby on purpose. To make you blame me."I shook so hard I thought I was going to f












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