Daddy, Mommy Loves Us More!

After Eugene Doyle abandons his pregnant wife, Maria Johnston, to marry his brother's widow, Maria makes the heart-wrenching choice to terminate her pregnancy and vanish. She builds a new life as a successful archeologist and remarries. Five years later, she returns to her village for a survey, only to encounter Eugene again. Unaware of her professional success and new marriage to Rupert Kingston, he insultingly demands she serve as a nanny for his new child.

When Regina goes into labor, her billionaire husband, Tom, ruthlessly pulls her doctors away to assist his secretary. Believing Regina can wait, he leaves five specialists behind—only for his manipulative secretary to steal them by faking an old injury. Three days later, Tom returns to find both Regina and their newborn child have died. To his horror, he discovers his secretary's ultimate deception: it was Regina, not his mistress, who actually saved his life from the fire years ago.

Under a blindingly bright sun, a seemingly perfect family day unfolds at the carnival. Sullivan patiently carries little Gracie on his shoulders as she eagerly points toward a flower-adorned carousel horse with pure, sunlit joy. Holding sticky cotton candy amidst the laughter of surrounding families, a mother watches them. Yet, beneath this sweet scene of popcorn and sunscreen lies an unsettling mystery, setting the stage for a tense romance novel where domestic bliss is about to shatter.

When Roland and his mother repeatedly humiliate her single mother—barring her from the aisle, the tea ceremony, and finally removing her wedding seat entirely—the bride reaches her breaking point. Refusing to let her mother be hidden away, she strikes sixty guests from the groom's side. The banquet will go on, with her mother honored at the head table. When Roland sneers that she has no groom, she opens a seven-year-old message to welcome the man who actually kept his promise.

After Conner refused to pay her ransom to fund his sick sweetheart Kayla's treatment, his fiancée endured brutal captivity. Escaping back to the city as a battered stray, she faces only Conner's cruel contempt. Driven to the edge, she slits her wrists before him with a dark, triumphant laugh. He never knew that she was the anonymous donor who agreed to save Kayla—only to vanish on the day of the transplant.

Both the narrator and Sean Quinton are facing certain death, but only Sean holds onto hope. The narrator carries a unique infection that, upon their passing, will provide the medical breakthrough needed to save Sean. As Sean impatiently pressures them to die for his sake, the narrator decides to deny him a cure. Instead of succumbing to the disease, they choose carbon monoxide poisoning, ensuring their corpse is useless for research and ruining Sean’s only chance.