My Bones for His Beloved

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I was seven months pregnant, but because I refused to donate my bone marrow to his ex-girlfriend, my husband, the tech mogul Jackson "Jax" Sterling, threatened me with the one thing I held dear: Havenwood, the group home where I grew up.

He forced me to sign the consent form for the bone marrow donation.

"Look, it's just some marrow. You might lose the baby? So what. At least Vivian will live."

The transplant was a success. But as I lay on the operating table, weak from premature labor an