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 rejecting her

The womanizer

on a chair, breathing

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

he is.”

inheriting his mother’s beauty,

of years, this will all blow over,” Gemma said, though her affection for Vivien had waned after all

grow up thinking of her as his real mother. If she fell

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

subsided his anger. He still had a

twenty or thirty years, the boy would take over the family business.

“You’re absolutely

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

She’s your stepmother and he’s your little

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decision, “If Conrad honors the engagement, you’ll marry him. If not, you’re

with Gemma and the child, not sparing Vivien a second

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