Too Late to Beg

He called her Pearl — his treasure. Then he made sure she could never have his child. Ethan Carter secretly had a vasectomy, then watched his wife Pearl suffer five years of fertility treatments while he blamed her for their childlessness. When she finally becomes pregnant, he accuses her of betrayal, throws his vasectomy record in her face, and forces her to abort — certain the baby isn't his. The paternity test proves otherwise. She obeys him one last time, then vanishes. Now he knows he kille