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"At exactly 10:03 p.m., ninety-three days after I signed the divorce papers and convinced the woman I loved that I no longer cared, the hospital called with three words that destroyed every sacrifice I thought I'd made. My ex-wife was unconscious... and sixteen weeks pregnant with my child. I thought I had buried the truth to protect her, but I was about to learn someone carrying my last name had been destroying her life behind my back. My phone shattered the silence inside my penthouse overlooking Tribeca.
"When my husband came home on Christmas morning, my wedding ring was beneath the tree, my hospital bag was gone, and the nursery we'd spent months preparing was completely empty. Roman Carter had built an empire by making half of Chicago afraid of him, but while he spent Christmas Eve holding another woman, his eight-and-a-half-months-pregnant wife disappeared with something he never imagined I'd discovered. Three hours earlier, I was still making cookies. Our estate outside Chicago looked beautiful beneath the snow.