The Price of a Heartbeat

Twenty-eight-year-old Liam once begged Hazel for a baby, but at thirty-five he was caught with his young secretary, Chloe, while Hazel fought for her life in the hospital. When Hazel, pregnant and grieving a miscarriage, demands a divorce, Liam refuses, calling the lost child merely an embryo and insisting that what happened with Chloe meant nothing.

Hazel has known about the affair far longer than Liam realizes. Chloe, an intern from his alma mater, sent her a photo of the two of them kissing in Hawaii, and the provocations only grew bolder. When Liam tries to cut Chloe off, she confronts Hazel at home, shoving her to the floor and kicking her stomach.

As Hazel lies bleeding, the man who once knelt up 999 cathedral steps for her must now face what his betrayal has cost.