Chapter 8

Our love was long gone after countless betrayals. All that remained in my heart was a cold, absolute resolve. When the police took out the handcuffs, Nancy made one final attempt at pleading her case. "It wasn't me! It was all Isaac's idea." "You liar! Nancy seduced me. I never intended to harm Benjamin!" Isaac retorted. I calmly held up my phone and said, "Do you need me to play the dashcam recording again? Or remind you how you two planned to make me accidentally lose my child?" Isaac and Nancy turned pale and froze on the spot. Then, Isaac wrenched free of the officer's grip and dropped to his knees with a thud. "Eliza, please give me another chance. We've been together for five years!" Five years? That sounded ironic. I looked at Isaac's tear-streaken face and felt nothing. The part of my heart that had once burned for him was now nothing but cold ash. "Isaac, when you forced dog food into Benjamin's mouth, did you remember that you were his father? Did you remember the fiv