Blood on the Wedding Veil

Synopsis

When I was eight months pregnant, my gangster husband, Eugene Sterling, switched out my prenatal vitamins for abortion pills. I stared at him in shock, but Eugene only said calmly, "There's something I never told you. I've been keeping another woman on the side. "She's pregnant. She says she doesn't mind staying in the shadows, but her child deserves to be born into a legitimate family." I trembled as I fought back tears and asked, "Are you going to divorce me and marry her?" Eugene gently stroked my cheek, but his words were utterly cruel. "Of course not. You're the only woman I've ever considered my wife. "I want you to adopt Yvette's baby, but I was afraid that if you had a child of your own, you'd treat her child unfairly. That's why I decided you needed to have an abortion." He pressed the pill against my lips. "Be a good girl. Take it, and I promise you'll always be my wife." I looked at him for a long moment before opening my mouth and swallowing the pill. What Eugene didn't know was that I had a secret of my own. Because of a medical condition, Eugene had always been unable to father a child of his own. And I was the only woman who could give him one.