Chapter 11

Pain spread in sharp, tingling waves through Callie's body. She clenched her jaw tight and tried to wrench herself free, but the harder she struggled, the tighter Damien's grip was. The pain turned her face ghostly pale, and sweat started gathering on her forehead. In the suffocating silence, the monitor by her bed suddenly shrieked with a piercing alarm. Callie suddenly grinned brightly. "If you wanna know, why don't you find out for yourself?" She tilted her head and brushed her fingertips lightly over Damien's face, softly murmuring, "If you love me that much, why can't you even step up and raise another man's kid for me?" "...Raise another man's kid?" As the words sank in, Damien's fingers clamped down harder, and the bed rail beneath his hand creaked under the strain. "Say that again?" He could hardly believe his ears. Callie's smile widened. Her soft, gentle smile from before vanished and was replaced by a vicious sneer. As she ran her manicured fingers across the slight s