Chapter 180

She covered her face, her sobs heart–wrenching.

“I didn’t want this! Dad, please help me, tell me what to do!”

Her life was in shambles, all thanks to Gwendolyn.

Herman clenched his jaw in suppressed fury, his face an ashen shade of anger. “Didn’t I warn you not to mess with Howard? He’s out of our league.”

“But it’s not fair! He was supposed to be mine, and Gwendolyn took everything from me!*

Vivien still felt like Gwendolyn owed her.

With a swift backhand, Herman snapped, “Get a grip, will you?”

Vivien was sent sprawling to the floor. She lay there, sobbing uncontrollably.

“You…” Herman vented before continuing, “The best solution now is for you to marry Conrad. It’ll be an alliance between our families.**

He still hoped to salvage some of the damage.

“No! I won’t marry him!”

not about what you want anymore, it’s whether Conrad will even have you!” The mere thought of Conrad publicly

that! The womanizer actually being choosy!

himself on a

drama. Cradling the child, she approached Herman.

he is.”

inheriting his mother’s beauty, cherubic

Vivien didn’t mean for this to happen. If it comes to it, we could send her abroad. In a couple of years, this will all blow over,” Gemma said, though her affection for Vivien had

could grow up thinking of her as his real mother. If she fell pregnant, she’d find a way to dispose of him. If not, she’d raise him and foster a

hers, and she had the patience

of his beloved son, Herman subsided his

in his prime, Herman knew in twenty or thirty years, the boy would take over the

reassured Gemma, “You’re

despair etched on her face, spat out, “Dad, are you sending me away? This bitch wants

She’s your stepmother and he’s your

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Chapter 180

honors the engagement,

and the child, not sparing Vivien a second glance.

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