Chapter 29 I Will Not Let Her Win

• Claire
• I couldn’t breathe the moment the doctor confirmed it—three babies—something inside me snapped. I felt as though my entire world had come crashing down around me, suffocating me under the weight of something I couldn’t quite process. This wasn’t supposed to happen. It was already unbearable knowing that Christian had married someone else, a girl who had appeared out of nowhere and suddenly become his wife, but now, this revelation was something else entirely.
• One child was bad enough. One child was already a threat. But three? Three meant bonding. Three meant commitment. Three meant Christian would never let her go. This wasn’t just some mistake that could be handled or swept under the rug if I played my cards right.