Chapter 10 - THE SECRET THAT CHANGED EVERYTHINGI thought the kidnapping was the final nightmare.
It wasn't.
Two weeks before the custody trial, Eleanor arrived with another file.
A life insurance policy.
Five million dollars.
Taken out on my life.
The beneficiary?
My unborn child.
And Julian.
The policy had been purchased days after we learned I was pregnant.
Then came the emails.
Julian had contacted a man in Mexico.
A man who specialized in making deaths look accidental.
The plan had been simple.
I would die during childbirth.
Julian would become the grieving widower.
He would inherit the insurance money.
He would receive custody of Lila.
And nobody would ever suspect him.
My hands began shaking.
The baby shower hadn't been the beginning of his violence.
It had been the moment his murder plan failed.
The raid had disrupted his original plan.
He had lost control.
And then he punched me.
My father stared at the evidence.
"This changes everything."
I looked at Lila sleeping in my arms.
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"No," I whispered.
"It changes him."
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