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!”

will even

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himself on a chair,

drama. Cradling the child, she approached Herman. “Honey, look

he is.”

slept peacefully, inheriting his

her abroad. In a couple of years, this will all blow over,” Gemma said, though her affection for

still young, he 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,

everything in the Sawyer family would be hers, and she had the patience to bide

Herman subsided his anger. He still had a

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

reassured Gemma, “You’re absolutely right.”

“Dad, are you sending me away? This bitch

stepmother and he’s your little

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decision, “If Conrad honors the engagement, you’ll marry him. If

the stairs with Gemma and the child, not sparing Vivien a second

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