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After ten years of marriage, I finally got pregnant with the heir to the Sawyer family. On the day of my prenatal checkup, I caught my husband accompanying his first love through childbirth. An hour later, Ethan Sawyer ordered someone to abort my baby and gently coaxed me, "Be good, Aria. Madeline's health is fragile. Can you let this one go, just this once?" When I didn't respond, my mother, Clara, slapped me across the face. "Haven't you caused enough trouble? If it weren't for you back then, Madeline and Ethan would never have broken up. Think of this baby as your way of atoning to her." Afraid I'd disturb Madeline during her postpartum recovery, Ethan had my mother take me away. I was sent to the old house in the southern district. The place was chosen specifically because