That night, Kane stood outside the cottage for hours. Several times, he raised his hand to knock. In the end, he never came inside.
Just before dawn, Vera's scream rang out from the main house.
Kane turned and ran.
Mia was summoned to help with the emergency. When she returned, her sleeves were soaked in blood.
"The baby didn't make it. I found an empty bottle of a labor-inducing drug under her bed. There were scratches on her stomach that she'd made herself."
Mia said Kane had seen the bottle too.
He grabbed Vera by the shoulders and demanded to know why she had risked their child.
Vera cried that she was terrified he would remember his first baby and abandon her. She only wanted to make him worry about her one more time.
Kane did not forgive her, but he admitted that his endless
