The Baby I "Killed"

Cast out by Rhys Caldwell into a Chicago snowstorm, a pregnant Sadie Miller loses everything—her home, her coat, even the scarf she knitted him—while he watches from his balcony with Brooke at his side. Bankrupt and with her father in prison, she signs the divorce papers and keeps her pregnancy secret, certain he never loved her.

A back-alley clinic nearly kills her, and the crash that once saved Rhys's life has left her unable to dance. To raise her little sister Paige, she sells grilled cheese and soup from a cart—until Rhys and Brooke appear, and a food-poisoning lie becomes a daily campaign to destroy her.

When she begs him to stop, he demands she kneel for twelve hours in apology to Brooke. Penniless and desperate, Sadie must decide how much of herself she will surrender to the man who swore he would catch the stars for her.