(Lily POV)I stared at the ultrasound picture in my hands, unable to process what I was seeing. A tiny blob on a black and white screen. A life growing inside me. His life.

"Lily, you don't have to look at it," Dr. Chen said gently, reaching to take the picture away.

I pulled it back. "No. I need to see it. I need to face what's real."

What was real was that Alex Morrison, the man who tortured me, poisoned me, assaulted me had left a part of himself inside me. A living reminder of the worst ...