The Cruelest Plea

Valerie had never seen Declan react in this way before.

Even when she came out of the operating room after she lost her first child, he just held her hand tightly and comforted her in a hoarse voice. He said they were just losing the child for the moment and the child would come back to them when she recovered. He had never shown his weakness in front of her as he did at the moment.

But now, Decla