The hospital corridor felt cold enough to gnaw through bone and marrow.
I stood there like an empty husk, my soul scraped bare.
Vivian's eyes burned with venom. "What did our Brooks family ever do to deserve this? Ethan has never strayed, and now you cannot even tolerate an innocent child? You are downright vicious."
I pressed my lips together and stayed silent.
Finally, Ethan emerged. "The doctor said the child is out of danger."
I met his gaze, and my voice cracked. "It was an accident. I swear I did not know."
He cut me off with eyes sharp as shattered glass. "Aria, you are ice. You are a stranger."
My fingers clenched around the wrinkled divorce papers, and my chest caved under the weight of a thousand stones. I thrust them forward with trembling hands. "Fine. I will give you yo
