Chapter 1170

Hertha clenched her fist on the table, her smile fading as she fixed her gaze on Angelina.

Angelina said to her with a fake smile, “Do you know why I brought you back here?”

It was last night that Angelina had asked Alaric to fetch his latest fling and bring her home.

Taking a deep breath, Hertha braced herself for what was to come.

Angelina picked up a cup of coffee beside her, took a sip, and set it down before continuing, “It’s to appease his grandfather. The old man’s got a weak heart, and he’s been worried sick about Alaric’s playboy ways.

Angelina had thought Alaric was just having another fling, so she didn’t hesitate to bring Hertha home. But she hadn’t expected that Alaric would really sleep with her.

Feeling like she’d shot herself in the foot, Angelina regretted her decision.

“His grandfather said yesterday that if Alaric truly liked me, he’d pay a fortune to call off the engagement with the Reeds,” Hertha said with a serious look.

a cynical chuckle to dismiss

hook. He wants you to willingly stick around Alaric and bear his children.

heart hanging by

you know why Alaric’s grandfather is so worried about him? Because he has a lot of girls outside and none of them want to bear his child. He fears Alaric being taken advantage of and that his vitality was sapped by those women, leaving him unable to carry on the Falconer lineage. That’s why he’s

another sip of coffee as she was schooling Hertha on the Falconers’

me. How

gamble,” Angelina admitted. “So they tell you about the huge sum to break off the Reed engagement, sweeten the deal, and keep you around to let you two have the milk. They gave you both tonics-yours designed for women’s vitality, Alaric’s for men’s. Then they

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hit like a sucker punch, sending what little hope Hertha had

wonder she’d felt unusually hot last night and craved a man’s touch. So

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