"As long as she hasn't remarried, she's still Lucas Yates' widow, she's Evelyn's sister-in-law. Joshua, how do you expect Evelyn to face this? And what about the child in her womb? She's pregnant now, spending all her days in tears, which isn't good for the child."
Harper Johnson looked at his daughter's angry but silent expression, then at Avery Jane's innocent facade, and felt a burning urge to murder.
She didn't understand what she was afraid of; she held a powerful card and simply didn't want to play it yet. But if pushed, she had nothing to fear.
She had spent her life as the so-called second wife in the Yates Family, and now that her daughter seemed to have a way out, she must fight for her daughter's sake—and her own.
"All of you, get out! I'll say it again: if she gives birth to the Hughes child, the Hughes will naturally give her the rightful status. But all that will come after the child is born. Now, leave! It's her choice to have the baby or not. I don't care."
