He Left His Bleeding Wife to Deliver His Ex's Baby — Until Her Phone Chimed With an Alert That Broke Him

"Ethan, you complete idiot!"

Arthur Vance’s voice thundered through the room as he shoved past his son, his face pale with fury. The patriarch of the Vance family looked like he had aged ten years in ten minutes.

"Father?" Ethan gasped, getting up from his knees. "What are you doing here?"

"I just received a call from the bank!" Arthur roared, pointing a trembling finger at Ethan's face. "Our corporate lines of credit have been revoked! The board has called an emergency meeting to remove you as CEO of Vance Enterprises! What did you do?!"

"I... I had Dr. Reynolds reassigned for a few minutes..." Ethan stuttered, looking between his furious father and the stone-faced lawyers standing at the door.

"You stripped the heiress of the Sterling Estate of her medical coverage inside her own hospital?!" Arthur yelled, his voice cracking. "Do you have any idea what you’ve done?! Her father’s attorneys have already filed criminal charges for intentional medical neglect and reckless endangerment!"

Ethan stood frozen, the reality of his actions slamming into him like a freight train. He turned slowly toward Claire, his lips trembling.

Claire calmly adjusted her hospital gown, leaning back against the pillows as Dr. Reynolds double-checked her fetal monitor. The numbers were back in the safe zone: 135 bpm.

"Arthur," Claire said smoothly, addressing her father-in-law. "Your son made his choice. He decided that Serena's comfort was worth more than the life of my baby."

"Claire, please," Arthur begged, his arrogant demeanor completely collapsing as he stepped toward her. "Ethan was foolish! He was manipulated! Don't ruin our entire family over a momentary lapse of judgment!"

"It wasn't a lapse," Claire replied, her voice steady and lethal. "It was a revelation."