Chapter 2 - The Hospital Betrayal
To understand how Ethan was humiliated in front of Manhattan's elite, you had to go back six months to the night Claire gave birth to premature triplet girls.
Claire had spent thirty hours in hard labor at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. When the doctor announced that all three baby girls were healthy but required two weeks in the neonatal intensive care unit, Ethan’s reaction was not joy, but cold, disgust-filled horror.
Ethan was the heir to Sterling Financial, a traditional patriarch who had spent months boasting to his board members that his wife was carrying his primary male heir.
When the doctor confirmed three girls, Ethan stood up in the delivery room, his face twisted in contempt.
"Three daughters?" Ethan sneered, looking down at an exhausted, bleeding Claire. "I needed a son to secure my father’s trust fund, Claire. You failed me."
Despite Claire’s quiet weeping and pleas for him to hold his newborns, Ethan turned on his heel and walked out of the hospital, refusing to sign the birth registration documents or pay the medical emergency deposit.
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He left Claire alone in the recovery room, burdened with mounting medical bills and three fragile lives struggling to breathe in incubators.
👉 Read PART 3 to see how Julian found Claire broken in the hospital room!
