You Owe Me a Life

Synopsis

I was eight months pregnant when the kidnappers pushed me down a hillside. Lucian Bates went insane, leading a search party through the mountains. When he found me covered in blood, he held me and sobbed until he couldn't speak. He prayed before the angel statue and swore he'd give up ten years of his life if I could just survive. But on my first day awake, I overheard him talking to his assistant. "Did you wipe all the footage?" The assistant's voice trembled. "Mr. Bates, she's your wife. Are you really going this far?" Lucian's reply was ice-cold. "All I want is for the child in her belly to die. Stella suffered too much abroad. Her son needs a legitimate claim. As for Joanne... Marrying me was already a life she stole." So the kidnapping wasn't an accident. Fine, then. This stolen life of mine—I'll give it back to them myself.