And The Daddy Is… The Infertile Guy?!

Chapter 292

“Let’s get Jeannie, and hit the mall this afternoon for some fancy lingerie. She mentioned she knows just the place!”

“Oh, let’s not,” Gwendolyn demurred.

“We must! I’m dialing her up right this second!”

In the bustling heart of Bayridge City downtown

In the creeping pace of the car.

Derrick was a bundle of nerves, his back drenched, breaking out in a cold sweat.

The call from the hospital that morning nearly had him collapsing in fright, worried sick that Claude might spill the beans about the

past.

Everything he owned could go up in smoke.

“Honey, what’s wrong?” Magnolia asked, concem lacing her voice as she sat beside him. “Did you have a rough night?”

Derrick waved it off. “Nothing, just worried about Claude. He’s awake, but only his eyes can move. I’m scared he won’t pull through”

Magnolia’s face lit up with relief. “Nonsense! He’ll get better in time. The doctors had written him off, but look, he woke up! They said he’s got a strong will to live, must be because he can’t bear to leave us!”

and had

shifted uneasily, tuming to Selina in the passenger seat Selina, why don’t you come with me to the office? The family business will be yours and

inscrutable as she nodded, “Thank

would not be outdone by some country bumpkin, no matter what. She had

obsession! She had to marry Howard Chadwick! No

this partnership between their families could give her more

not take Skyler? You’ve always favored Selina, you have to show some love to our son.” Though she chided him, her heart

fondness for his daughter was a

muttered, his attention glued to his

a space

love for the pretenses of the business world, nor

found an outlet

seeing him as an excess to the family. And Skyler, for his part, always seemed at odds with him,

derisive laugh, “Isn’t my big bro enough for

“Spoiled brat!”

Skyler’s eyes swept coldly over Selina.

angry. Let’s get out

outside the Hamilton

out of the

made their way up the elevator, straight to the CEO’s office.