Chapter 80

ELISE'S POV

I watched the scene in front of me with pain in my heart. Gina was crumpled on the floor. Her body was limp and her skin was pale as snow. Jackson was right beside her, wrapping his arms around her and attending to her in a way he had never done with me.

The revelation hit me like a punch.

Gina is pregnant

I couldn't breathe. I couldn't think. The air seemed to run out, and I had to restrain myself from passing out. Jackson screamed as he called for help. His tone was so different from the one he used with me in the past.

Years of marriage flashed before my eyes—years of longing, of heartbreak, of trying and failing to give Jackson the one thing he wanted more than anything. A child. A piece of him, of us. Something to bind us together forever, something that could have saved what was left of our love. But it never happened. No matter how much I prayed, no matter how much I hoped, I was never able to conceive. Maybe if I had a child, things would have been different.

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