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On the cold operating table, I was about to sever the last tie between James Carter and me. Then a news alert popped up on my phone. He was down on one knee, slipping a diamond ring onto another woman's finger, his smile gentle, full of affection. He once said I was beneath him, unworthy to bear his child. But just as the scalpel was about to cut, my real brother burst in and saved me. Turned out, I was the long-lost heiress the Sterling family of Riverside City had been searching for all these years. When I came back with all that glory, James groveled in front of me, holding an infertility diagnosis, his eyes red. "Serena, I was wrong. That baby... our baby... where is it?" I linked arms with my new man. I threw the roses James had carefully prepared into the trash and gave a light smile. "Sorry, Mr. Carter. My baby takes my last name, Sterling." James didn't know that the child he had almost killed was his one and only flesh and blood in his life.