Shattered Vows and Broken Hearts novel Chapter 3

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Margaret heart the commotion and rushed upstairs Finding Saral envered in bland ale pantbed and called for a ride

to the hospital

The tactor bandaged Sarah’s forehead carefully pave a few standard instructions and left Margaret loobed at Saraics

pate face, her heart aching that Jessica had grown up under her watch too, and worry gnawed of her

Sarah, wall here for a bit, honey Fm going to check on Josstea.”

Go ahead, Mom I’ll head home on my own Sarah nodded calmly

Margaret had barely walled off when Sarah remembered, the older woman hadn’t eaten lunch yet, too busy fussing over her. She started after her, then stopped

Margaret was hurrying toward the OB–GYN wing

Something tugged at Saraly’s put. She followed

Margaret stopped outside a hospital room. Jack emerged, his face it with barely suppressed joy.

“Mom, Jessica’s pregnant?

The words stabbed into Sarah like a knife, twisting everything inside her, rage, bitterness, a crushing weight on her chest

Her son was barely in the ground, and Jessica was carrying Jack’s child.

The sheer absurdity of it made her blood run cold.

Then Margaret’s voice cut through, barely holding back her fury. “Jack Williams, you’d better start talking. You stood there and swore to Sarah there was nothing going on with you and Jessica.”

Zach’s barely in the ground and now Jessica’s pregnant? How do you think that makes Sarah feel?

Jack’s voice went quiet, guilt bleeding through. It’s not like… It’s not like I planned it. I had too much to drink one night. That’s it‘

He paused, then seemed to steel himself. I’ve already figured it out. I’ll send Jessica overseas to have the baby. When she gets back, we’ll tell everyone we adopted Sarah and I will raise it together. It’ll be… I don’t know, something for her to hold onto.”

Margaret stared at him like he’d completely lost it. “You think that’s gonna work? You really think Jessica’s just gonna go along with that?”

“She will, Mom. Jack sounded certain. “She’s told me before she’s not really into kids anyway. And after what happened to Zach, she feels terrible about Sarah.”

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Sarah listened from the shadows a hollow laugh building in her chest.

She’d never realized Jack could be this naive Or maybe he just trusted Jessica that much.

Either way, his delusions and Jessica’s scheming weren’t her problem anymore.

She’d be gone soon enough

She didn’t bother confronting them. She just turned and walked home.

Jack didn’t come back from the hospital until the next day.

Sarah was packing Zach’s clothes, the only things she wanted to take. Jack walked in, saw what she was doing, and instead of reacting, actually looked relieved.

“Good to pack those away. No point torturing yourself looking at them.”

Sarah kept her eyes down, silently folding things into the suitcase.

Jack cleared his throat. “Hey, you know that locket of yours? The gold one? Let Jessica borrow it for a while. Help her…

recover.

“No.”

Flat. Final.

Recover. Right.

She knew what he meant, protect the pregnancy.

Back when she was carrying Zach, the old injuries from her academy days had made things difficult. She’d nearly lost him multiple times. That locket had seen her through.

It wasn’t just a family heirloom. It was the last tether between her and her son. No way in hell was she giving it away.

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