Chapter 4 - THE INTERSECTION OF LIVESTwo days later, Abby took the twins to the hospital for a check-up. As she walked through the halls, a woman with piercing, weary eyes and hair pulled back in a tight bun strode past them.
"Dr. Hale?" Abby called out, her heart racing.
The woman stopped and turned. The resemblance to Edward was undeniable, but where Edward looked like a man haunted by the past, Clara looked like a woman who had burned her past to the ground.
"Yes?" Clara asked, her tone clinical.
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"Your father," Abby started, but Clara’s expression shifted from professional to glacial ice.
"If he sent you," Clara said, her voice dropping to a dangerous whisper, "tell him that his money can’t buy his way back into a life he destroyed. I don't care if he’s dying or if he’s hit rock bottom. I am not his redemption."
