A/N: This chapter is dedicated to Bianca_Dean_Ruth. Thanks for the golden ticket.
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"You can't do this, Alanis! Claudia is pregnant! She'll lose her child if you send her to that boot camp!" Elisa cried out, her voice trembling but filled with fury.
She couldn't believe this was happening.
Her daughter, her perfect, spoiled daughter, being sent to a place meant for newly recruited military men with very harsh discipline. What business does a pregnant woman have with them?
Unacceptable.
Alanis, who had been about to leave, suddenly stopped in his tracks.
Slowly, he turned.
His sharp, cold gaze locked onto Elisa.
"She's pregnant?" he repeated, his voice eerily quiet. "And yet, she made me go through that punishment for nothing?"