"When I was being held underwater until I nearly suffocated, where were you? When I was beaten so badly I hemorrhaged and almost lost my uterus, where were you then?"
I advanced on him, step by step. Dennis stumbled backward under the weight of my presence.
"You were lying in her bed, planning your beautiful future together! Dennis, your love makes me sick."
"Enough!"
Nellie let out a piercing scream and doubled over, clutching her stomach as she crumpled to the ground.
"Dennis, my stomach... it hurts so bad... Save our baby..."
Her face was ashen, sweat coating her forehead. It didn't look like an act.
Dennis panicked instantly. He threw the gun aside and scooped Nellie into his arms.
"Nellie! Hold on! I'm taking you to the hospital right now!"
He turned back to me, and the look in his eyes was pure, bone-deep hatred.
"Margot Delgado, if anything happens to my child, I will never let you go!"
I watched their retreating figures stumble away and felt nothing but contempt.
A confrontation that should have been a razor-edged standoff had ended in this absurd farce.
I turned around and met Christian Finley's gaze. Those eyes held a half-smile that wasn't quite a smile.