Chapter 7

The police eventually arrested Mark for aggravated assault, and during my time in the hospital, my former in-laws even came to visit me. They offered to pay for my medical bills, but only if I agreed to sign a statement to forgive Mark.

The sheer audacity of it infuriated me, and I ended up kicking them out. Mark was a monster and getting away without the death penalty was already too kind!

Ryan, who had just finished his shift and come to see me, witnessed the entire scene. He immediately tried to calm me down.

“Don’t get upset, Elizabeth. The baby’s health comes first…”

His voice was gentle, and the way his hand rested on my stomach stirred a strange sense of familiarity in me.

I had been trying to find some connection between Ryan and the masked man who had saved me that night because Ryan’s timing was almost too perfect. I even asked him about it in passing, but he brushed it off, saying that he had just been passing by when he noticed my front door was open. He had come to c