CEO’s Tears Over Pregnancy Test Discovery

Chapter 1746

Kieran didn't see it that way. "Of course, it benefits me. Look at you! You came back, didn't you? Regretting not giving me that 40,000 yet? You could've saved us both the trouble if you'd just handed it over earlier."

"You-"

"Now it's 100,000," Kieran interrupted, reclining smugly in his wheelchair. "You want the trending posts gone, don't you? Pay up-100,000, not a penny less. Otherwise..." His voice dropped, laced with menace. "I've still got a few things up my sleeve." The blatant threat made Karina's hands tremble, her voice quivering as she spoke. "One hundred thousand? Wasn't it forty just a few days ago?"

Kieran sneered. "That was the old price. It's 100,000 now, take it or leave it."

Karina could taste blood in her mouth. Her lips had been bitten raw without her noticing. Rage and utter disappointment overwhelmed her.

This was her family. Twenty years of being with them, and all they had ever done was take. They had given her nothing in return.

Her mind wandered to the happy, harmonious families she occasionally saw-fathers kind and caring, mothers warm and supportive. Why couldn't she have that? What had she done to deserve this?

those posts, I'll find another way. Worst case? I'll take it to court. Let's see how you explain where all the money I've given you over the

at her feet. It shattered with a sharp crash, shards flying everywhere. One jagged

the pain,

jabbed a finger at her, his face livid "We took care of you for twenty years, and this is how you

this house alive."

herself despite the pain. Her leg throbbed, but she refused to show weakness-not in front of them. She pressed down on the bleeding wound, straightened her back,

dare!" Mr. Stone

steps in, Mrs. Stone

misting with unshed tears. "Mom, not you too," she said, her

away, unable to meet her gaze. "It's for your own good," she said meekly. "You know how Kieran is. If

incredulous. "Only 100,000?"

as if reasoning with her. "You've got a good job

You've always found

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