Chapter 4 - The Doctor Steps Closer
The doctor had delivered hundreds of babies.
She had seen husbands faint, pray, cry, panic, laugh, and hold newborns like they were made of light.
She had seen fear make people clumsy.
She had seen grief make people cruel.
But she had never seen a man sign divorce papers beside three newborns while their mother was still fighting to stay conscious.
She stepped closer to the bed and adjusted one blanket around the smallest triplet.
Grant watched the movement with annoyance.
“Do not interfere with legal proceedings.”
The doctor looked at him.
“This is a recovery room.”
“It is my wife’s room.”
The doctor’s eyes sharpened.
“Then act like her husband.”
The attorney inhaled sharply.
Grant’s face darkened.
For a second, the room held the shape of violence without movement.
The wife tightened her arms around the babies.
The doctor shifted her stance, protective and ready.
Grant did not touch anyone.
He was too aware of the attorney now.
Too aware of witnesses.
Too aware that the papers in his own hand had begun to feel dangerous.
The wife looked at the doctor.
A silent thank-you passed between them.
The doctor’s expression softened only for her.
Then the attorney cleared his throat.
“Mrs. Holloway needs rest.”
Grant laughed once.
Cold.
“She needed rest before producing three heirs and a medical bill.”
The wife’s face flinched.
Not at heirs.
At producing.
As if she were a function.
A body.
A means to a family line he now wanted to abandon because the birth had not been clean enough for his image.
The attorney looked down again.
The word heirs had done something.
His eyes returned to a page near the back.
His fingers trembled harder.
Grant saw it.
The wife saw it.
The doctor saw it.
The babies stirred as if the room’s fear had reached them.
Grant’s voice dropped.
“Whitcomb.”
The attorney did not look up.
“Sir… there may be a complication.”
Grant froze.
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The wife’s tears stopped completely.
Read Chapter 5 👉 Because Grant called the triplets heirs with contempt, and that single word sent the attorney back to the clause Grant never bothered to read.
