The Billionaire's Betrayal She Was the Only OneChapter 1
The day of my prenatal checkup, I discovered my husband had swapped my postpartum care package for a termination plan.
I was about to laugh it off as a mistake when he said, his voice perfectly even: "It's not wrong. And actually, there's something I need to come clean about."
"I've been keeping a college girl on the side. She's a sweet thing. Never asked for a title, never tried to take your place in this family."
"But she's pregnant now. I've already put her through enough. I won't let her child suffer too. I need to give that baby a legitimate birth status." I lay frozen on the ultrasound table, my voice shaking beyond my control. "So you're going to divorce me and marry her?"
He wiped the gel off my stomach, smiling as he spoke.
"What are you talking about? I told you on our wedding day, you'd be the only wife I'd ever have. Besides, your parents are gone. If we divorced, where would you even go?"
"I just want you to adopt Beryl Swanson's child. Getting rid of yours is just a precaution, really. I don't want you playing favorites down the road, neglecting the child Beryl and I have together."
His expression didn't change as he held out the surgical consent form. "Be good. I promise, you'll always be Mrs. Sanchez. No one will ever come above you."
I looked at him, long and hard, then turned and stumbled toward the operating room. "Don't bother with promises." "Dennis Sanchez, I hope you never regret the decision you made today."
What he didn't know was that I was the only woman on this earth capable of bearing a child for him. He had necrospermia. Without me, his bloodline ended.
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I didn't wake up until three days later.
The first words I heard were:
"Mr. Sanchez, what you did this time was extremely reckless. Forcing the termination of an eight-month fetus was dangerous enough, but demanding a hysterectomy at the same time? Your wife very nearly bled out on the table."
Dennis's voice came back, indifferent.
"I promised Beryl I'd only ever have one child in this lifetime, and that child would be hers and mine. The safest way to guarantee that was to have Veronica Pruitt's uterus removed so she could never conceive again."
His gaze swept across the room and landed directly on mine.