On the projector, everything continued to replay.

In the scene, Zoe in the hospital room was ghastly pale, restrained by two burly bodyguards.

She pleaded with Barrett, "I'll divorce you, let you marry Jacey, just let me take this child away. It'll be mine alone, with no ties to you."

"Barrett, you have no right to kill my child. I've served you like a slave for three years, I owe you nothing. What gives you the right?"

"If this child is gone, I can never have another child..."

Barrett felt as if his mind were exploding, the voices relentlessly echoing, growing clearer and clearer, all flooding into his ears.

His...