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    The prospect of harm befalling his newly discovered grandchild represented an intolerable risk to his dynastic ambitions.


    Having delivered his imperatives, Rodger acknowledged his own authority with a satisfied nod. He meticulously adjusted his silk tie, visibly gratified with this unexpected turn of events, then strode purposefully from the sterile hospital chamber.


    The antiseptic air hung heavy between Sadie and Nathan, now the room’s sole upants.


    Sadie remained enveloped in cognitive fog, Rodger’s startling revtion having delivered a psychological blow more potent than her physical ailment.


    She was pregnant? How had this momentous development escaped her attention? Her body had betrayed no obvious signals of this life-altering condition.


    Her unfocused eyes driftednguidly toward Nathan’s apprehensive figure.


    As their gazes locked, his features rearranged themselves into an expression of culpable difort.


    He inclined his body toward her, his voice descending to a whisper. “Sadie… the pregnancy is genuine. Medical confirmation ces conception slightly beyond four weeks ago. With my father present, I manufactured necessary falsehoods solely to defuse his suspicions.” His hand traveled nervously to massage the tense muscles at his nape, difort radiating from every pore. “I imed paternity of your child.” The deration had materialized from desperate improvisation—a hasty barrier erected against the tsunami of Rodger’s potential machinations.


    Sadie’s brow furrowed deeply. Nathan’s mouth continued forming words, but they dissolved into meaningless vibrations before reaching her consciousness.


    With primal intuition guiding her movements, her trembling fingers ascended to rest protectively across the still-t ne of her abdomen. Could another fragile existence truly be taking form within her womb? Pregnancy had revisited her? And conception urred merely four weeks prior?


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    Memories assaulted her consciousness with brutal rity—Noah’s concealed features, the searing electricity of his intimate caress—every sensation cascaded through her mind with merciless intensity.


    This embryonic life carried Noah’s gic imprint!


    Sadie’s delicate fingers contracted into tight fists as a maelstrom of conflicting emotions seized control of her faculties.


    How had fate engineered such a devastatingplication? Noah was already married to Hailey, and imminently they would wee their own offspring. What significance could her parallel pregnancy possibly hold amid this tangled web?


    Nathan observed the transformation sweeping across her features. Evidently, his borate justification had failed to prate the fortress of her introspection.


    “Sadie, your physical well-being must remain paramount. Reserve theseplex contemtions for when strength returns to your body.”


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