A Gamble with Health
It was covered in dense, disgusting sores.
"You’re pitiful? What about me and our child? Back then, I begged you to save me, but you just kept kicking me over and over again. Do you have any idea how much pain I was in? Nicholas, when a person makes a mistake, it’s like shattering a mirror—it can never be pieced back together," I spoke with an icy indifference.
"No! It can be fixed!" He crawled toward me, repeatedly bowing his head to the floor. "I’ll spend the rest of my life making it up to you.