“When I told you I thought I was pregnant, what did you say? Do you remember your exact words? ‘Sofia, this is a distraction. I don’t have time for this. My future is in the company, not in diapers and bottles. If it’s true, fix it.’ Do you remember that, Alex? Or does your memory only retain the successes and the millions?”
Sofia’s words struck him like daggers. Each phrase an echo of his own cruelty, his selfishness. He had erased that conversation from his memory, justified it as the “necessary decision” for his success. Now, the stark truth confronted him in the form of an innocent child and a wounded woman.
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