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**Marcus's POV**"Eli, come here baby. Come sit with Diane.""No.""Eli—""No.""Sweetheart, the judge is about to come in...""No." He crossed his arms in finality.Diane looked at me with a smile that was doing a lot of work to stay on her face."He's just tired," I said quietly."He's been tired since yesterday," she said. Still smiling, though she was smiling a little too hard."Eli." I crouched to his level. "Buddy. Sit with Diane for me. Just for a little while."He looked at Diane.Looked at me, then looked at the courtroom doors.And the moment those doors opened and Angela walked in with her lawyer, her chin raised up and still with bandage on her head, Eli's entire body reoriented like a compass finding north."Mama!"He was off before either of us could move. Diane's hand shot out and caught his arm and he pulled against it with everything his small body had."Eli... Eli, wait—""Mama!" He strained toward her. "Mama, mama, mama—""Baby." Angela crossed the room in three st

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**Marcus's POV**Angela is calling me.??I stared at the screen for a full three seconds just to make sure I was reading it correctly. 1:47 AM. Her name was visible on the screen, yet I could not believe my eyes. I looked at Diane beside me on the bed , she was deep asleep with one hand under her cheek. She laid completely still.I got up slowly. I stepped one foot on the floor, then the other. Still with the phone on my hands, I moved to the door with the specific careful movements of a man trying not to wake the woman in his bed while answering a call from another woman entirely and understanding fully how that sentence sounded.I closed the bedroom door behind me.Stepped into the hallway and answered."Hey."There was silence for a moment. Then .... "He didn't eat again today did he."Oh so we are just going to go straight into a conversation, completely ignoring the fact that you framed me in court today? okay..."He ate a little," I said. "In the evening. Diane made—""Marcus."

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**Angela's POV**"Mr. Richard, your vitals are looking really good today." I wrapped the blood pressure cuff and noted the reading on my chart. "Strong. Consistent. Much better than the last time I was at work." I looked up at him. "So why do you look like someone just told you the world is ending?"This was my first day at work after the two weeks leave I got because of my incident which kept me at the hospital. He was staring at the window again.He had been staring at that window since the first day I was assigned to him and I had come to understand that the window was where he went when something inside him was too large to look at directly."Mr. Richard.""Sit down, Angela.""You know I can't do that...""Sit down.""It's against my work ethics. If my supervisor walks in and finds me sitting on a patient's bed having a personal conversation I could be—""Angela." He turned from the window and looked at me with the particular patience of a man who had been making decisions from t

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**Angela's POV**Everything happened at once."I need help in here!" My voice was already at the door before I had finished processing what my hands were doing . One was on the call button, one reaching for Richard's wrist, my eyes were on the monitor that was screaming every number at me at the same time. "Room 7, cardiac event, I need a team now!""Grace." I turned to the woman still standing frozen in the doorway. "Ma'am. I need you to step outside right now."She didn't move."Ma'am." I crossed to her in three steps, my voice was firm and professional, leaving absolutely no room for negotiation. "I understand this is frightening. But I need you outside this room immediately so my team can work. Please."Something in my voice finally reached her. She stepped back into the corridor, her eyes still fixed on Richard over my shoulder, and I pulled the door shut between them.The next twelve minutes were the longest of my career.Dr. Osei came in fast, the crash team behind him, and the

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**Marcus's POV**I thought hiring a babysitter was the solution.In my defence, it made complete sense at the time. Diane had been clear, she could not be Eli's primary caregiver. I had a full day of meetings at Steele Corp that I had already postponed twice and could not postpone again. Eli needed someone. The logic was clean and simple and entirely reasonable.What I had failed to factor in was letting Diane know that I had contracted somebody. Her name was Kezia. She is Twenty-three, certified in early childhood care, references that checked out completely, recommended by a colleague whose toddler apparently adored her. She arrived at ten, immediately got down on the floor with Eli and his cars, and within fifteen minutes Eli had decided she was acceptable which for Eli was the equivalent of a standing ovation.I left for work feeling like I had solved something.I had not solved anything.---My phone started ringing at two in the afternoon.I was in the middle of a presentation.

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**Elena's POV** "You didn't pick up." "You didn't call back." "I called you eleven times, Liam." "I know." He stopped in the middle of the hospital corridor, and I stopped too. For a second we just stood there, a few feet apart, like two people who had walked into the same room from opposite doors and neither of them had planned it. "What are you doing here?" I asked. "Same thing you are, probably." "I came to ask him something." "So did I." "Ask him what?" He looked at me. His eyes were red at the edges. He hadn't slept, and neither had I, and we both knew it without saying it. "If he was sure of what he was saying," Liam said. My throat tightened. "That's what I wanted to ask." "Great. Then we're equally pathetic." I laughed. It came out wrong, half a sob, and I pressed my hand against my mouth. Liam made a small movement toward me, then stopped himself, and I watched him do it. That hurt more than anything Richard had said. "Uhm...." "Don't." His voice cracked. "N

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**Liam's POV**"Ahhhhhhh!"The scream cut through the corridor like glass breaking.I spun around. Elena was bent over at the waist, with both hands clamped under her bump, her face was as white as paper. She took one step toward me, her legs folded, and she fell down."Elena!"I don't remember crossing the floor. I only remember my knees hitting the tiles and her fingers locking around my wrist so hard it hurt."Liam....something's wrong—it hurts!""I've got you. Look at me. I've got you.""It's too early," she gasped. "She's not supposed to..it's too early—""NURSE!!!!"She was already there. She dropped beside us, her clipboard hitting the floor, she put two fingers on Elena's wrist before I'd finished shouting."Ma'am , can you hear me? Look at me. How long has your head been pounding?""Since—since this morning...""Vision? Any spots, flashing lights?""Yes—everything's blurry...."Angela's face changed. It was the smallest movement, but I saw it."Get me a pressure cuff and a wh

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**Eliza's POV**I pressed send before I could change my mind.""Elena is in emergency surgery. St. Brigid's, third floor. Liam White is with her.""No name was attached to it.. A prepaid phone I'd bought in cash. I had written them the way I wrote everything: short, clean, designed to move a man exactly where I needed him to go.Alexander would read it in the car. He would be in the hospital in twenty minutes. And when he saw Liam standing at those theatre doors, the two of them would do what two proud men always do.I'd spent three years learning how a story spreads. Who needs to be in the room, who needs to be shouting, who needs to be holding the camera. I didn't have to touch anything. I only had to point.I dropped the phone into the cup holder and exhaled."Done."Then the pain hit my stomach! It came out of nowhere. A tearing, wrenching spasm low in my belly that folded me forward until my forehead hit the steering wheel. The horn blared. I couldn't breathe. I couldn't think.

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**Alexander's POV**"Let go of me!""Sir, if you stop fighting, we'll let go.""I said LET GO!"Two guards had my arms. Two more had Liam. We were pinned on opposite sides of the corridor like dogs at the end of a leash, both of us breathing like we'd run a marathon, both of us staring at the red light over the theatre doors as if it might change colour if we glared hard enough."Gentlemen." A tall woman in green scrubs pushed through the circle of nurses. Her mask was pulled down around her neck. "I'm Dr. Mensah. I've just come out of theatre."Everything stopped."Is she okay?" Liam and I said it together.We looked at each other with pure hatred."Elena is stable," the doctor said. "Her pressure is coming down. She's sedated and will sleep for several hours."I heard Liam exhale."And the baby?""It's a girl." Dr. Mensah's face softened. "Thirty-four weeks. Small, but breathing. She's in the neonatal unit for monitoring. The next forty-eight hours will tell us a lot."A girl.I had

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**Angela's POV**"I'm not here to fight, can we have a conversation?."Diane stood on my doorstep at nine at night, she had no makeup, her hair was pulled back, her coat buttoned wrong. She was twisting the ring on her finger with her thumb like she was trying to unscrew it."How did you get my address?" I asked shockingly."From Marcus's phone. He doesn't know I'm here.""Then you shouldn't be." I tried closing my door but she held it."I know." She swallowed. "I couldn't sleep. Please. Just give me five minutes."I should have shut the door. I'd told myself I would if she ever came near my son, my home, or my life again.But she was shaking."Five minutes," I said.She sat on the edge of my sofa like she was afraid it would bite while I stayed standing."The drinking," she said. "What Marcus told the court about you.""Which is a lie by the way.....but go on.""I know." She pressed her lips together. "I asked him, after the hearing. I asked where it came from. He said his lawyer nee

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