Chapter 396

Would she end up marrying Stein?

He deserved this he really did. She'd vanished, and he couldn't find a single phone number that could lead him to Victoria.

He barely knew any of her friends. The only one was Ailie, and even if she knew something, she'd never tell him where Victoria had gone.

They all loathed him.

He really had it coming, didn't he?

Echo City

Victoria stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows of her newly purchased penthouse, the glittering lights of Echo City sprawling beneath her. As she admired the city's nighttime glow, her phone rang. It was the old man.

"How old is my great-grandchild now?" he asked.

sure if it's a boy or a girl yet. You'll have to wait a

delighted, seemingly unaffected by the news of Victoria and

can't have children. So, you just focus on giving the Langford family a healthy heir. I

Violet or whatever schemes the old man was cooking up. None of it had anything to do with her.

really done with my useless

someone else. I'm

As long as you give me my precious great-grandchild, that's all I care about. But listen, clever girl, don't go marrying just anyone. I don't trust some stepfather to treat my grandson right.

forming at her temples. Conversations with this sly old fox were always

old man. If you're unhappy, I'll walk away from my fifty percent share of the company. But this child-he stays with me," she

plans to ever marry again. Once the baby was born, she'd have someone to keep her company; the long years ahead

married again or not was her

born, he's the Langford heir. On your due date, I'll send someone with the contract.

man was threatening her, and this was a particularly nasty move-but she had to admit, it

son? You'll know when the

into her chaise lounge, gently stroking her belly. Yasmine emerged from

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