Synopsis
When Alpha Dorian Cater’s childhood sweetheart, Ella Scott, showed up pregnant with his child for the eighth time, she was placed on my operating table again.
This time, I didn’t break.
Unlike the seven times before—when I’d cried in silence and bled inside while doing my job—I stitched her up with steady hands and calmly reviewed her aftercare instructions. Professional. Detached. Untouchable.
After performing seven abortions for my own mate’s mistress, I had become the hospital’s favorite source of break-room gossip—a tragic joke everyone whispered about but no one defended.
From the moment Dorian got Ella pregnant to the moment he pressured me into ending it, he always had an excuse. Polished. Logical. Almost reasonable.
And for years, I let myself believe him.
