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Chapter 1
On the day I married Colin Thomson, the Thomson family’s adopted daughter tried to jump off a building.
Colin ditched me in my wedding dress and ran off to save her.
With hundreds of guests staring at me with mockery in their eyes, I stood up and declared, “Whoever walks up to the altar now–I’ll be your bride!”
Three years later, Colin came back with his adopted sister, Irene Simpson.
I was lounging on a leather sofa, eating lobster bisque, and watching dramas.
Colin stared at my bulging belly, gritting his teeth. “Whose bastard is that?”
I ate another bite and smiled. “Of course, it’s a Thomson family’s child.”
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Furious, Colin stormed over and yanked me up from the sofa.
“Bitch! I left with Irene on our wedding day. I haven’t set foot back here in three years–how could that possibly be my child?”
I found it funny. When did I ever say it was his? Colin wasn’t the only man in the Thomson family.
“Of course, it’s not your child. You don’t even deserve to be my child’s father.”
Irene looked shocked. “Joanna Scott, even if Colin left you at the wedding ceremony, he still let you keep the title of Mrs. Thomson and enjoy the wealth and status that came with it. How could you shamelessly get pregnant with someone else’s child?”
I glanced at her and said, “Irene, you’re the adopted daughter of the Thomson family, yet you shamelessly commit incest with your brother. If we’re talking about disgrace, who could top you two?”
Irene immediately looked at Colin with a pitiful expression. “For the past three years, we’ve kept things proper despite our feelings. But she’s cheated on you and is pregnant with someone else’s bastard.”
The moment she said, “cheated on you,” Colin’s rage boiled over. He raised his hand and slapped me hard.
“Slut! You get knocked up and still dare to drag me and Irene down with you? Get out of my house!”
My cheek burned from the slap, and for a few seconds, my head was spinning.
Three years ago, Colin ran off with Irene, leaving me humiliated at the wedding ceremony in front of everyone.
Out of anger, I announced an open marriage offer on the spot, and it was Colin’s uncle, Wallace Thomson, who walked up to the stage and married
- me.
Wallace was known as the Cold–faced King in New York. Ever since I married him, everyone had treated me with flattery and smiles.
After I got pregnant, he pampered me like royalty. He wouldn’t even let a single hair on my head be harmed.
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If Wallace found out that Colin dared to lay a hand on me, blood would be spilled.
To avoid a family tragedy and for the sake of my baby, I decided to keep the peace.
I said coldly, “If you both leave now, I’ll pretend none of this ever happened.”
But instead of backing off, Irene grabbed my hair.
Colin, this bitch is feeling guilty. She wants us out, so she can use that bastard in her belly to take over everything in the family!”
Colin snapped, “So that’s your plan, huh? Do you think I’ll let you get away with it? Not a chance.”
I broke free from Irene’s grip and said coldly, “Ever since the day you ran off, your grandpa expelled you from the family. Everything they have now has nothing to do with you.”
Irene chuckled. “That was just Grandpa’s angry words. Colin is the only grandson. There’s no way he’d really be expelled.”
Colin smirked smugly. “Grandpa’s always said everything in the family belongs to me.”
I rested a hand on my belly and replied coldly, “Not anymore. The child I’m carrying is a Thomson too.”
I thought I’d made myself perfectly clear.
But Colin’s face twisted with rage. “You bitch! So you really are planning to pass off that bastard as a Thomson. I’ll teach you a lesson today!”
He slapped me again, even harder. I clutched my belly as I fell to the
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Seeing their hideous faces, a wave of fear surged through me. I was terrified they’d hurt my baby. I quickly tried to explain, “My child isn’t a bastard, he’s-”
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