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Tears Brewed in Empty Love Chapter 9
What goes around really does come around.I didn’t return the shares.They belonged to my daughter.After her follow-up exam, I flew back to Northern Europe with Mia.Before long, an extraordinary gift began to reveal itself in her: painting.I hired a private instructor and made sure her talent was carefully nurtured.I kept every one of her paintings, cataloged and protected.I also created a social media account just for her and started posting high-quality scans of her work.She built a following quickly.By the time she was thirteen, she already had a name for herself.I brought her back home to hold her first exhibition.What I hadn’t expected was the turnout.Far more people came than I ever imagined.After that show, her confidence soared.So did her inspiration.More and more ideas poured out of her, and soon her work began selling online for astonishing prices.She kept trying to persuade me to sell some of her earlier paintings too.I refused.But I didn’t stop her from sell
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I spun around in shock and realized Mia had gotten out of the car at some point without me noticing.She was clutching the hem of my shirt, her face open and confused.Ethan went white.“Mia... what did you just say?“I’m your father. Are you still angry with me? Is that why you’re saying this?“Mia, I was wrong. Can you forgive me?”Mia took a step back.“Mister, my dad died a long time ago.“He even came to me in my dream during surgery and told me he’d protect me.“So how could you possibly be my dad?”“You heard her,” I snapped. “Leave. Stop trying to upset my daughter.”Ethan’s eyes reddened. His lips parted as if he wanted to say more, but in the end, he walked away like a man who had lost his soul—right before I called the police.But he still didn’t give up.I took time off work and drove Mia to and from school every day.I didn’t let her out of my sight for a second.One night, while I was blow-drying her hair, she suddenly said,“Mommy, why does Hugo’s dad keep showing up nea
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“Considering she just came out of surgery, it’s best not to correct her for now,” the doctor had said.“Don’t do anything that might upset her.”I had laughed at that—quietly, bitterly.I never imagined that what I’d said to Ethan, that he no longer deserved to have Mia as a daughter, would come true in a way like this.I bent down and stroked Mia’s hair.“Sweetheart, how would you feel about moving somewhere new with Mommy after you leave the hospital?”I took out the visas I had prepared long ago and moved with my daughter to a small town in Northern Europe.Between what Ethan had paid me for all those hours he rented himself out to Vanessa and what I received in the divorce settlement, Mia and I had more than enough to live comfortably for the rest of our lives.I bought a small villa with a yard and a compact car.It wasn’t the same as the life we had back home, with a housekeeper, a nanny, and a cook.But there was a kind of ordinary happiness in making our own meals and tending t
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All the color drained from Ethan’s face.“There’s... no more Mia?”He reached for the wall to steady himself, looking like he might collapse right there onto the floor.“How is that possible? The surgery was almost over...”His hands were shaking. What I had handed him slipped from his grasp and fell to the ground.A divorce certificate.And a bankbook.He stared at them blankly.“What is this, Claire? Is that... our last divorce certificate?”He reached for me.“This is my fault. Please, stop scaring me. Just take me to Mia...“I stopped loving Vanessa a long time ago. I only did those things because you never seemed to care about me—only about money. I wanted to provoke you. To get a reaction.”“Provoke me?”I bent down, picked up the bankbook, and hurled it straight at his face.“You used my daughter’s life to provoke me?“Ethan Caldwell, you’re not even human.“This bankbook belongs to Mia.”I forced my trembling fingers to flip it open and pointed at the transaction history inside
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Inside the operating room, the equipment had been knocked every which way. A trail of blood stretched out across the floor and into the hallway.The doctors Ethan had dragged back with him all sucked in sharp breaths.He grabbed one of them by the collar and roared,“I told you to leave the lead surgeon behind!“Why the hell does it look like this? Where is my daughter?!”The doctor shook so badly he could barely get the words out.“I-it was Ms. Parker. She said the patient was having a severe allergic reaction and every doctor in the hospital had to go.“She also said she’d take full responsibility, and if anything delayed her son’s treatment, we’d all pay for it.”The veins at Ethan’s temple bulged.“So you left my daughter on the operating table to die?!”His eyes were bloodshot as he shouted,“Find them!”The memory of me in that video—on my knees, bowing to Vanessa, begging her—hit him all at once, and Ethan nearly lost his footing.He had really thought I was putting on a scene o
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I looked past the doors.Mia’s chest was already open.On the cardiac monitor, her heartbeat was barely there—just the faintest tremor on the screen.The doctor hurriedly tried to shake me off.“Mr. Caldwell’s son had a sudden allergic reaction. The entire hospital has been reassigned to emergency response. We have to pause the surgery.”“You are not leaving!”My voice came out raw and torn from crying. My hands shook as I fumbled out a bank card.“How much did he pay you? I’ll pay double. Just finish my daughter’s surgery!”Afraid they’d think it wasn’t enough, I yanked out my phone too, ready to transfer the money on the spot.That was when I finally saw the memo on the deposit notification.It was from Ethan.Payment for renting the doctors.“Ma’am, this isn’t about money,” one of them said helplessly.“We’re afraid of losing our jobs.”No matter how I begged, no matter how hard I bowed and pleaded, the doctors still pried my fingers off them one by one and left.My daughter lay alo
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