room was ee

stunned by

egan to cry. "Chloe... I didn't mean it that

behind him, glaring at me. "Chloe! What

my chair, looki

an I had loved

er and were child

e had just proposed to me

he fell in love w

uthority do you have to o

was complicated. "I

my brother-in-law

oe! You're being insolent. Maddie is your sister, Reece w

for my opinion while I was in a coma? Did I agree to having another

you don't want to have another daughter. You want to change your daugh

d a substitute from the orphanage, a fragile one, to nurture with my blood, molding h

contracted and my mother's

Maddie wer

the dining room

ith satisfaction, a cold th

t all and I kn

n, I made

react. He slammed the newsp

stern but tinged with undeniable panic. "You just wok

am. I dreamed that someone took advantage of me being unconscious a

e many messages he wanted me to pass on to you.

d tightly, his glare wa

gaze wit

ded with my mother's scream.

or! Call the personal doctor." My father immediate

oom descende

s and looked at me with extremely disgusted an

ly wiping the corner of

sonal d

eded to see him, and I also h