The Secret Billionaire Heiress Strikes Back
Not adult crying, but infant crying—high-pitched, desperate, the sound of a newborn announcing its arrival into a world that wasn't prepared to receive it.
"My baby—" Her past self's voice, thick with tears and exhaustion and desperation. "Please don't—don't take him—"
More crying. Movement—shuffling, dragging sounds that suggested someone struggling to move while physically incapacitated.
"Help—" So quiet now, barely audible. "Someone help me—"
A door closing. The crying growing more distant. Then suddenly louder again—a second baby, making its own dramatic entrance, her miracle child, Rhysand.
And through it all, her own voice. Crying. Begging. Screaming in ways that tore at her throat, so