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The brutal truth had left me reeling, but something in his words still struck me as odd. "The child you owed me... What did you mean by that?"Donald froze for a moment. He was clearly still hiding something from me.He scratched his head, then gave up trying to conceal it and told me outright, "Before that happened, weren't you pregnant? So I smeared some shoe polish at the top of the stairs..."The realization struck me like a lightning bolt. My fingers would not stop trembling.The first child I had longed for with all my heart had been taken from me by his own father.The baby had been seven months along, a fully formed baby boy. In just two more months, he would have entered the world. Yet his own biological father had destroyed him with his own hands.It felt as though an invisible hand had closed around my heart and squeezed. The pain was so intense that I could barely breathe.I opened my mouth without thinking as my breaths came faster and faster.When Donald saw my re

"Donald, what are you saying? You know full well he's..." My voice cracked and trembled.Donald grew impatient. "Don't be so dramatic. It's all in the past now."Suddenly, Jolene's voice came through the phone. "Donny, I need to use the bathroom. Hurry and carry me!"The cold click of the call ending severed my connection to the world all over again and dropped me into an endless abyss.So he wasn't only taking care of Harold. He was taking care of Jolene and her twisted ankle too.He hadn't hesitated to save Jolene and stay by her side. Yet he'd left me at the mercy of a rapist.I had begged him to save me and take care of me. That wound had festered inside me for five years.Now he'd driven the knife even deeper without mercy.The pain made me scream, and he called me dramatic.Levi wore the smug expression of a man who had gotten exactly what he wanted as he poured me a glass of water.I knocked it out of his hand at once.Water soaked his sleeve, but he didn't seem bothe

This was the paternity test between him and Harold. Donald's eyes locked on the final line and refused to move."The subjects Donald Inksworth and Harold Inksworth are excluded from having a biological parent-child relationship."The world went horribly quiet in an instant. All he could hear was his own ragged breathing and the dull ache of his heart crushed in an invisible fist.Harold was not his son. Begonia had betrayed him.Fury blazed in his chest. "How dare she?"Donald tore apart the paternity test that had just slapped him across the face and scattered the pieces across the floor. "That bitch! That slut!"Then he suddenly noticed writing on the back of the report. He lunged forward, gathered the scattered scraps, and pieced them back together. Two blocks of text emerged.The first had been written the day after Begonia gave birth.[Donny, I don't know if I'll ever have the courage to show you this report. Harry isn't actually our child. Our child was already gone. Duri

Jolene's eyes widened. She let out a strangled scream. "Donald, have you lost your mind? You'd destroy my happiness for that outsider, Begonia? I'm your sister!"Donald let out a cold laugh. "Did you think about being my sister when you crawled into my bed?"This was all your doing. You ruined my life with Begonia. If it weren't for you, we'd be happy together right now, raising our own child. Do you have any idea how happy we could have been?"Jolene sneered, her face twisting with contempt, "Crawled into your bed? Both times, who came looking for whom? Huh?"Donald, do you actually think forcing Levi to divorce me will win Begonia back? Keep dreaming. She hates you. She'll never forgive you for as long as she lives."The veins in Donald's neck bulged, and his chest heaved. "Shut up!"He turned to Levi. "Make a decision. Do you want this hen that can't lay eggs, or your precious son?"Just then, the butler hurried in. "Sir. Ma'am. There's trouble. The police are here. They said

Donald froze as I stared him down without blinking. "Donald, this is nothing but pain of the flesh. What I went through... It was like having my heart stabbed straight through. Like having a piece of flesh carved out of me without mercy. Like being hacked into mincemeat, ground beneath someone's heel, and left for stray dogs to devour."My whole body shook, and my voice rose higher with every word.As I sobbed out my accusations, Donald completely fell apart. The regret in his eyes was so deep that nothing could ever wash it away."You destroyed me! I want your lives to rot from the inside out. I want you completely ruined."I raised a hand to wipe the tears from the corners of my eyes, then drew a deep breath.It was time to finish this once and for all.I pointed to the hidden camera on my chest. "Do you see this? Everything that just happened was streamed live through this camera."Donald shot to his feet and stared at me in disbelief.After a long moment, he forced a single