When the wealthy couple saw their newborn’s face, the mother gasped, “Take him away, he’s a monster.” They abandoned him at the hospital. A kind nurse raised him. Twenty years later, the couple desperately needed a rare surgery. The world-famous surgeon walked in, revealed his birthmark, and…

We heard the rumors. We know that you know.” He swallowed hard. “The shame we have carried… it has destroyed us. We were young, Elara. We were terrified, vain, foolish people caught up in an image we thought we had to protect.”

“You were thirty-five,” I corrected sharply. “You weren’t children. You were cowards.”

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