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My breakup with Elvis Sterling was ugly, messy, and left scars. He gripped my fake pregnancy report and crushed his cigarette right over my chest. "How dare you lie to me?" he snarled. Those words shattered my life. I lost my job, and my face was scarred for good. Everyone said I'd been his kept woman for five years, and that I got exactly what I had coming. The day I left Riverside City, he was getting engaged to a high-society heiress who was his perfect match. I clutched my pregnant belly, feeling like a rat crawling through the gutter, and slunk out of his world, never to return. Four years later, we ran into each other again. He pointed at the little girl in my arms, his eyes locked onto mine, full of certainty. "This is my kid, isn't it?" he demanded, sure of the answer.