HE STOLE MY BABY’S HEART SO I’LL STOP HISChapter 1
ELIANA
The phone felt heavy in my hand, though my voice came out steady.
"I'm divorcing that monster. This time for good. Then I'll come to you."
Silence stretched on the other end before it broke with a sigh of relief.
"Finally. Eliana... he should've never had you. When?"
"Two weeks," I said, jaw clenched. "That's all I need to cut the last tie."
The word divorce tasted like freedom and blood all at once.
Because my husband, Darren Centineo hadn’t just betrayed me—he had destroyed me.
And yet, I was still standing.
It had been barely twenty-four hours since the nightmare began.
Masked men bursting into my living room. Fists and boots raining down on me while I was forty-two weeks pregnant.
The agony of contractions tearing through me too soon. My own screams echoing in my ears as I begged them to stop.
Then—Darren, charging in like a hero. Pretending fury as he fought them off, as though he hadn’t orchestrated it all.
He’d lifted me like I mattered. Whispered frantic comfort as though I were his world. "Eliana, stay with me. I’ll protect you. I’ll protect the baby."
Lies. All of it.