Chapter 2 — The Security Footage
Marcus didn't speak.
He simply opened the video his head of security had just sent.
The hospital suite's surveillance camera had captured everything.
Every second.
Khloe quietly standing beside the window.
Isabella entering without knocking.
The first shove.
Khloe stepping backward, trying to avoid a confrontation.
The second shove.
The crash into the side table.
Then...
The kick.
Deliberate.
Violent.
Directed straight toward Khloe's pregnant abdomen.
Marcus felt the blood drain from his face.
The recording ended with Khloe collapsing onto the floor while Isabella calmly adjusted her dress before pretending to panic.
Silence filled the room.
Marcus slowly lowered his phone.
"You lied."
Isabella's confident smile disappeared.
"Marcus... I can explain."
"No."
His voice was colder than anyone in the room had ever heard.
"You planned this."
Hospital staff rushed inside with doctors and nurses.
One physician immediately knelt beside Khloe.
"We're taking her to surgery."
Marcus reached for his wife's trembling hand.
"I'm here."
Khloe looked at him through tears.
"You weren't..."
Those two words hurt more than any accusation.
The operating room doors closed.
Marcus remained standing alone in the hallway while security officers quietly escorted Isabella toward another waiting room.
She screamed the entire way.
"You can't treat me like this!"
"You love me!"
Marcus never looked back.
Three hours later...
A surgeon finally emerged.
"The baby survived."
Marcus nearly collapsed with relief.
"But..."
The doctor's expression remained serious.
"Mrs. Thorne suffered a partial placental abruption."
"If she had arrived even ten minutes later..."
He didn't finish the sentence.
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He didn't need to.
Marcus finally understood how close he had come to losing both his wife and his son.
