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Chapter 89: Sabotage Attempt
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2026-01-11 04:10:58
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The room was dark. Not the comforting dark of the nursery at night, but the pressurized, clinical dark of a room where destiny is decided.Aurora lay on the exam table. Her feet were in the stirrups—the same stirrups where she had lost the first two embryos, the same stirrups where they had planted this one. The paper sheet crinkled under her legs, a sound that seemed deafening in the silence."Okay," Dr. Rosenberg said. His voice was calm, devoid of the nervous energy vibrating off Aurora and Liam. "Let's take a look."He squeezed the gel onto the wand. It was warm. A small mercy.Aurora gripped Liam’s hand. His palm was sweating. He was staring at the black monitor screen, his jaw set so hard she could see the muscle jumping beneath the skin. He looked like he was waiting for a verdict in a murder trial.Please, Aurora prayed. She didn't know who she was praying to—God, the universe, the science, the iron ring. Just be there. Just stay.Dr. Rosenberg inserted the wand.Aurora closed
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