Seven Years Too Late

Synopsis

On our wedding anniversary, my sister Lila miscarried because of a slap I gave her. Everyone called me vicious and cruel. "When you do something wrong, you have to face the consequences." My husband Ethan and my parents forced me to sign divorce papers, then sent me to jail. The day I got out, Ethan and Lila were getting married. I didn't show up to cause a scene at their wedding like everyone expected. Instead, I boarded a train to another city and disappeared without a trace. ... Seven years later. I unexpectedly ran into Ethan at the entrance of a small-town hospital emergency room. Just then, a child's voice suddenly piped up behind me. "Mommy, how much longer? My tummy is so hungry." Staring at the little face that looked so much like his own, Ethan's eyes instantly turned red. "Whose child is she?" He was a patient's family member, bringing his pregnant wife here for threatened miscarriage. And I was the on-duty doctor in the emergency room. "Clara?" Recognizing me, Ethan froze, instinctively looking at my palm. There was a shocking scar there. "You..." His Adam's apple bobbed twice. The question he wanted to ask got stuck in his throat when he saw my cold, emotionless