The Second Life of a Discarded Heiress

Chapter 158

If you have no children after marrying into the Everly family, you'll never have any status. You'll always be the other woman, with nothing to show for it—so what's

the point?

Derrick: "..."

Noah: "..."

Suddenly, an earsplitting curse rang out from the crowd.

Derrick lunged at Daisy, grabbing her by the throat. "You lying witch! When was I ever under five minutes? It was five and a half-at least!"

Daisy scoffed, shoving his hand away. "Please, you're so thin it's like sleeping with

a needle. If it wasn't for the money, I wouldn't bother pretending with you."

Her voice was hoarse-she'd lost it from all the fake moaning.

at Derrick,

moment, the two of them were locked in a

Salome: "..."

her eyes away from the spectacle and turned to Salome. "Auntie, when the Everly family claimed you couldn't have children,

infertile, so I saw every specialist I could find. Not one found anything wrong, but Noah kept blaming my infertility on my dieting. She ordered the kitchen to make me nourishing soup every day. After a while, I started

remembering the faint trace

year now." Salome nodded,

tense. Her voice sharpened. "Do

leftovers-I didn't finish mine this morning," Salome

a trusted housekeeper to fetch

faces of the Everly family shifted uneasily

vanished; panic flickered visibly across her face. She shouted toward the hall, "Where are the security guards?

command, a group of burly guards

voice cold and threatening. "Citrine is Raymond's daughter.

a sharp, derisive laugh. "After all these years of partnership between the Everly and Carmichael families, you really think Raymond would pick a fight over some