Chapter 4 - The Parents' Arrival
Against all odds, thanks to the brilliant medical team at St. Catherine’s, Claire successfully delivered a beautiful, healthy baby girl.
Exhausted, trembling, and deeply traumatized by her husband's abandonment, Claire lay in the temporary recovery room holding her newborn. The physical pain of childbirth was entirely eclipsed by the cold, agonizing realization that the man she married was a literal monster.
Two hours later, the heavy doors of the recovery room swung open. Her parents, William and Eleanor, rushed inside.
They had been on a flight back from Europe when Claire went into labor and had driven straight from the private airstrip to the hospital. Seeing their daughter entirely alone, holding her baby with tears streaming down her pale face, instantly ignited a fierce, protective fury in both of them.
"Where is Ryan?" William demanded, his deep voice vibrating with immediate suspicion as he looked around the empty room.
Claire didn't cry hysterically. The betrayal had burned away her sorrow, leaving only a sharp, razor-thin ice. She looked up at her powerful father and told him exactly what Ryan had done. She explained how he walked out when the baby's heart rate dropped, and how the nurses had just informed her that her pre-paid VIP suite had been transferred to a woman named Vanessa.
William did not scream. He did not curse. The silver-haired patriarch simply nodded, his face hardening into a mask of terrifying, lethal execution.
"Eleanor, stay with Claire," William instructed his wife in a low, dangerous whisper.
William walked directly to the hospital's chief administrator—a man whose entire neonatal wing had been funded by William’s private charity trust. Within ten minutes, the room transfer was violently reversed, the hospital staff was terrified, and Claire was moved into her rightful luxury suite.
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They simply waited for Ryan to finally show his face.
👉 Read Part 5 to return to the violent confrontation in the luxury suite.
