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Chapter 1

My screams echoed down the empty hospital corridor and drew startled looks from everyone nearby.I did not care. I stared desperately at my phone. I was terrified that Liam might do something drastic.“Hahaha! Dave, have you been watching so many soap operas that you’ve lost your mind?”Liam laughed so hard that there were tears in his eyes.He leaned into the camera. His face that was twisted with hatred filled the entire screen. “To save this little fool, you’d even humiliate yourself by claiming that your wife cheated on you? Do you take me for a three-year-old?”“I’m not lying! Just think about the timing…”“Shut up!” Liam cut me off viciously. He grabbed Teddy by his thin collar and hauled him off his feet.“Look at him! In what way does he resemble me? He’s the runt you and that harlot Jennifer had behind my back!”Teddy whimpered in pain.He wore nothing but a thin thermal shirt. Beneath him was an abandoned steel tank filled with filthy water.The bitter early-winte

Chapter 2

Five years ago, Liam’s investments failed. His company went under and left him millions of dollars in debt.That night, he had sent me a text.[Take care of Jen for me.]Then, he disappeared without a trace.By the time I reached the apartment they shared, the creditors had smashed up the place and left.Jennifer was curled up alone amid the wreckage. She was sobbing uncontrollably.Liam had been my best friend since college. I could not bear to leave her homeless. I offered to let her stay in my spare apartment until she got back on her feet. However, two weeks after Liam disappeared, Jennifer suddenly collapsed in the bathroom.At the hospital, we learned that she was nearly two months pregnant.The baby was Liam’s.When Jennifer woke up, she ran a hand over her still-flat stomach. Her eyes had been frighteningly vacant.She wanted to terminate the pregnancy, but the doctor warned that because of an underlying medical condition, doing so could leave her permanently infer

Chapter 3

He turned the bottle upside down and spilled the brown lifesaving pills all over the floor.“Liam, have you lost your mind?!” I screamed hysterically into the phone. “Open your eyes and look! He’s not my son! He’s your biological son!”Unfortunately, Liam refused to believe me. He merely watched my breakdown with a smug smile.Panic overwhelmed me. I finally blurted out the truth about what had happened five years ago. “After you ran away five years ago, Jennifer found out she was pregnant! She begged me to marry her in name only because she didn’t want her child growing up branded as the illegitimate son of a fugitive debtor! “Teddy is five years old. Do the math! He really is your flesh and blood! Liam, I’m begging you. Believe me just this once. He really is your son!”I thought that after hearing all that, he would at least begin to have doubts.Instead, his expression only darkened. He viciously kicked Teddy in the stomach.“How dare you try to disgust me with such a li

Chapter 4

“You…” I clenched my jaw as humiliation and fury raged inside me.“What? You don’t want to?”Liam pressed the blade harder against Teddy’s pale throat, instantly drawing a thin line of blood.“I’ll do it! I’ll say whatever you want!”My eyes burning with tears, I raised my hand and struck myself hard across the face.Slap!The sharp sound echoed through the cavernous warehouse. “I’m a home-wrecking lowlife! I took advantage of you when you were down!”Slap! I hit myself again. Blood immediately trickled from the corner of my mouth. “I’m a worthless fool! I took your sloppy seconds! I’m utterly disgusting!”I slapped myself again and again.My pride no longer mattered. I kept hitting myself, willing to endure any humiliation if it meant keeping Teddy alive.It was not long before my face was badly swollen.“Hahaha! Yes! That’s it! Keep going!” Liam laughed like a madman.“Dave, you were such a big shot back in college. You were the student body president, and you were t

Chapter 5

The entire warehouse fell silent.Liam looked down at the prenatal report pressed against his chest.His eyes widened. His fingers twitched as he frantically counted backward in his head.It dated back to the weeks before his company collapsed, when anxiety had kept him awake night after night and Jennifer had been his only source of comfort.If the dates were right...The color drained from Liam’s face.Then, as if terrified of what the report proved, he suddenly ripped it in half.“Impossible! That’s impossible! Jennifer, you’re lying! You faked that report to fool me, didn’t you? If he was really mine, why didn’t you have the baby and wait for me to come back? Why did you marry Dave? “You’re a cheating harlot! You betrayed me!”Jennifer slapped Liam so hard his face whipped to the side.“You ran off and left behind millions of dollars in debt! Creditors came after me every day! They vandalized the apartment and threatened me! I was pregnant and homeless! How was I suppose

Chapter 6

Liam’s brazen threat caught several of the younger officers off guard.During his five years abroad, he had fought his way back to success and made connections with a number of supposedly powerful people.He firmly believed that with enough money and the right connections, he could get away with murder.On top of that, the victim was nothing more than a “little runt” in his eyes.“It doesn’t matter who you know. No one is above the law! Take them all down to the station!” the veteran officer barked.At his command, the officers immediately dragged Liam away and put him in the back of a police cruiser.In an interview room at police headquarters, I fought back my grief as I recounted everything to the detectives.I told them how Liam had fled after his company went bankrupt five years ago, how Jennifer later discovered she was pregnant, and how we had agreed to a marriage of convenience to protect her child from the stigma surrounding his birth.I left nothing out of my formal s

Chapter 7

The doctor emerged with a freshly printed report in hand, his steps slow and heavy.I stared at the report. My breath was getting heavy.Liam appeared calm, but the slight trembling of his fingers betrayed his nerves.The veteran officer took the report and turned to the final page.His gaze lingered on the conclusion for several seconds. Then, he looked up sharply. His eyes were filled with disgust as they settled on Liam.“Liam,” his voice echoed down the empty hallway. “Read it yourself.”He strode over and slammed the certified paternity report against Liam’s chest.The impact made Liam grunt. His eyes fell on the final line, which was printed in bold.[Based on the analysis of DNA genetic markers, the results support that Liam DeLuise is the biological father of Teddy Molson, with a relative probability of parentage greater than 99.9999%.]“No… No, that’s impossible.” Liam’s voice shook uncontrollably.He stared at the figures. His eyes were bulging in disbelief.“The t

Chapter 8

That afternoon, Jennifer and I went to the county jail to see Liam.When a corrections officer brought Liam into the visitation room, I barely recognized him.In just two weeks, Liam had wasted away. His cheekbones jutted sharply from his gaunt face. His eyes were sunken deep into their sockets.“Jen… Dave…” His voice was hoarse and ragged.“I was wrong. I was so wrong. I didn’t know he was my son.“If I’d known, I would’ve rather died than lay a finger on him!”I stared at him coldly. My voice was devoid of emotion as I said, “You are still making excuses, Liam.“You didn’t know he was your son, so that made it all right to torture and kill him? When you forced me to kneel and call myself an animal, Teddy was dying right at your feet.“Before he died, he was in so much pain he couldn’t even cry anymore. Yet, you wouldn’t even give him the pill that could’ve saved his life.”“Stop… Please, stop, Dave!” Liam wailed and clapped his hands over his ears.“Every night when I close

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