"Shawn, you're hurting me," Julia gasped in pain, startled by the sudden violence in his eyes. "This isn't Jennifer's, it's mine…"
"You're lying!"
Shawn threw her harshly to the ground. His drunkenness, all the anxiety and terror he had felt these past days, and the despair that had consumed him after learning the diagnosis all burst forth into uncontrolled violence.
"Get it off! You don't deserve to wear it! Take that off now!"
He acted like a madman, punching and kicking Julia as she lay on the ground, completely forgetting that she was pregnant.
"Ah! My stomach! Shawn, the baby! Our baby!"
Julia shrieked in agony, and a glaring pool of blood quickly spread beneath her.
The shriek and the blood finally brought a sliver of clarity back to Shawn.
As he looked at Julia, curled in ag
