A Bitter Promise

POV: Valerie Thorne.

Chloe’s shrill hysterics filled the sterile hospital room, shattering the tense silence. Her voice rose rapidly into an unhinged frenzy. She clutched the lapels of Tristan’s dark shirt, burying her face against his chest like an abandoned orphan desperate for salvation.

"Don’t let her give birth to that baby, Tris! Please! If you let her have this child, you'll abandon me!