Broken Oaths (Lisa Davis and David Green) novel Chapter 7

Chapter 7

When she woke again, Lisa was in the hospital, feeling dazed for a moment.

Her fingers brushed her flat belly, and her heart clenched painfully—the baby was gone.

“Bed 23, where’s your family?

We need payment. You’ve got heavy metal poisoning and must cooperate with police.

The baby… didn’t make it.”

The nurse checked on her the moment she awoke.

Lisa’s fingers trembled as she grabbed her phone to call David. His phone was off.

She forced a bitter smile. He hadn’t answered since she left last night—hadn’t even looked for her.

He once promised to be there whenever she needed him.

Now he ignored her calls to stay with Helen.

“No family. I’ll pay myself.”

Lisa’s voice was weak.

“You can’t walk. Rest—I’ll handle it.”

The nurse stopped her kindly.

Leaving the room, the nurse muttered, “We’re all women, yet fate treats us so differently.

One woman had a threatened miscarriage, and her husband panicked. He booked the whole VIP floor and flew in a world-class medical team overnight to save the pregnancy.”

She glanced back at Lisa. “This poor soul lost her baby to poison without a single relative by her side.”

Lisa heard every word. She knew they meant David and Helen. She felt nothing.

Lisa moved to a VIP room. During her stay, she had the glass fragments tested to find who poisoned her.

David never contacted her by discharge day.

She went straight to Davis Manor House, took her mother’s ring, and stored keepsakes in a permanent vault.

She’d sell the villa and never return.

Next, she visited the Civil Registry Office to change her name—ensuring David could never find her.

Back home, Lisa found Helen curled on the sofa under her blanket, snacking while binge-watching.

Lisa frowned. Before she spoke, Helen sprang up.

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