Chapter 4 - The Woman Who WaitedElena found a small apartment on the other side of the city.
She worked whenever her body allowed it.
She hid her pregnancy beneath oversized clothes.
She avoided hospitals because Victoria had warned her that Adrian's lawyers would find her.
She lived on fear.
But she kept the ultrasound photograph.
Every night, she placed it beside her bed.
Sometimes she whispered to the baby.
“Your father would have loved you.”
Then she would cry quietly until sleep finally came.
Two months before the confrontation, everything changed.
Elena was carrying folded sheets down the mansion staircase when Victoria appeared behind her.
“You still think he would choose you?”
Elena turned.
“I don't want anything from him.”
Victoria stepped closer.
“You already took enough.”
Then she pushed her.
Elena fell.
Her body struck the stairs.
The world disappeared.
When she woke, a doctor told her she had been lucky.
The baby had survived.
May you like
Barely.
That was the day Elena stopped believing that fear alone could protect her child.
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