The CEO's Empathy Pregnancy Pains

Chapter 335 Moral Blackmail

Emily pushed the door open just as Hayden was about to leave. She paused and

stepped aside to let him pass.

"Heading out already?" she asked.

Hayden, seeing Emily, took a couple of deep breaths and sat back down on the couch. "Why would I leave when I just got to see you here?"

In other words, he wasn't going anywhere until they had a proper conversation.

Emily knew Hayden was here to stand up for Sophia. Either to ask her to go easy on Sophia or to persuade Michael to do so. His sense of family loyalty had never once tilted in her favor.

Despite this, Emily walked forward in her high heels, poured Hayden another glass of water, and replaced the coffee on the table.

"I know you don't like coffee. All I have is water, so you'll have to make do."

hostility with kindness; but after losing the lawsuit and Brown Corporation, Hayden barely kept a small company afloat, and with two troublesome women at home, he seemed to

daughter's love for her father was instinctive.

across from him. She was now comfortable in her high heels, even with

be easily pushed around. She now worked at a prestigious jewelry company, surrounded by colleagues,

of this on her own. She had loved drawing since she was a child, begging for art classes at four.

thought you'd be helping

expected him to start with accusations, but she was wrong. She responded calmly. "Help with what? Brown Corporation is gone. Mom wants to start Taylor Corporation, build her own business. I can't help with that. We have different interests. Mom can handle it

ex-wife and daughter were thriving while his own

without Michael or Isabella, but can't you leave some room for others? Look at what you've done to Sophia! She just made some money off your designs. You're sisters! Do you have to push her so

took a deep breath, feeling the sting on her right cheek. She had just been slapped by Scarlett, and now Hayden

of cold, numbness in her limbs, and everything

sister? How can you say that? Haven't I told you before, Hayden? From now on, Sophia is your only daughter. I'm

give her a break? What about when she tried to take Michael? When you wanted her to marry him? Don't you know Michael

all see my success but never ask what I want. No one cares if I'm happy in my marriage