Chapter 6 - The Pathetic Mistress
Before Ryan could formulate another toxic lie to save his own skin, his smartphone began to ring loudly in his hand. The caller ID flashed brightly: Vanessa.
Ryan looked from the ringing phone in his hand to the chaotic scene in the hallway.
Vanessa, still wearing her inappropriate white dress, was struggling violently against the two massive hospital security officers. She wasn't holding a baby. She had no surgical scars. She had entirely faked the medical emergency just to pull Ryan away, and now her psychotic plan was blowing up in her face.
The security guards began forcefully escorting her away from the luxury suite, dragging her down the pristine hospital corridor for disturbing the high-security maternity ward.
"Ryan... please don't leave me here alone!" Vanessa cried out, her trembling voice echoing pathetically down the hallway as she realized she was being thrown out into the street. "Tell them who I am! Do something!"
Ryan didn't move. He stood paralyzed in the center of the luxury suite, his eyes darting frantically between his furious father-in-law, his cold wife, and the ringing phone in his hand. He realized he was trapped.
He looked at Claire, his expression shifting rapidly between overwhelming anxiety and suffocating guilt as the reality of his total ruin crashed down upon him.
"Claire..." Ryan whispered in sheer desperation, holding his hands up in a pathetic gesture of surrender. "Just give me a chance to explain. Let me hold my daughter. I’ll be back in ten minutes, I swear. Just let me deal with Vanessa."
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He still thought he could negotiate. He still thought he could control the situation. He had completely underestimated the woman lying in the bed.
👉 Read Part 7 to see Claire execute her final, devastating move.
