Chapter 2 - "Daddy, please!" The heartbreaking scream that shattered Julian Mercer's soul.
Julian's heart slammed against his ribs.
Evie saw him.
Both of her tiny hands immediately reached toward him.
“Daddy… I'm scared.”
Something changed inside Julian Mercer.
For years, newspapers had described him as unemotional. Competitors called him impossible to intimidate. Investors trusted him precisely because he never appeared frightened.
But there was no billionaire standing beneath that staircase anymore.
There was only a father.
And his little girl was afraid.
Julian moved.
Fast.
“Vivienne! Put her down. Now!”
Vivienne backed away.
One step.
Then another.
Closer to the railing.
Julian began running.
Guests scattered as he reached the staircase.
“Vivienne!”
Her eyes filled with tears.
“You promised me a life,” she said.
“I don't care about any of that right now. Give me Evie.”
“You don't understand.”
“Then make me understand tomorrow.”
Julian climbed faster.
“But right now, give me my child.”
Evie stretched farther toward him.
“Daddy!”
Julian was nearly there.
Vivienne looked down at the little girl.
Something terrible passed across her beautiful face.
Jealousy.
Grief.
Rage.
And beneath all of it, a desperation so deep that Julian finally understood something he should have understood months ago.
Vivienne did not see Evie as a child anymore.
She saw her as the reason she had lost.
Everything.
“You always choose her,” Vivienne whispered again.
“Yes.”
Julian didn't hesitate.
“She is my daughter.”
Vivienne flinched as though he had struck her.
Julian reached the top stair.
“Give her to me.”
Vivienne backed toward the railing.
Evie began sobbing harder.
“Daddy, please!”
Julian held out both hands.
“Look at me, sweetheart.”
Evie's enormous gray eyes found his.
“I'm right here.”
Vivienne looked from the child to Julian.
Her lips trembled.
Then she whispered:
“Not anymore.”
Her body moved.
Evie lost her balance toward the balcony side.
“DADDY!”
Julian lunged.
For the first time in Julian Mercer's life, money could do absolutely nothing.
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