I was stunned. I hadn’t expected Julian’s greed to be so huge, and now, he had set his sights on me.
Behind her, Lilian and Isabelle were glaring at me greedily, like starving wolves eyeing a juicy slab of meat, eager to tear it apart.
It made sense, though. My family, the Whitmores, had wealth beyond their wildest dreams. Even the tiniest scrap they could tear off would be enough for them to live comfortably for the rest of their lives.
With such temptation in front of them, how could they resist?
“Julian, how can you prove the child is yours?” I smiled at him while touching my slightly rounded belly.
“What?”
Julian and Lilian were both stunned by my words. They never imagined I would ask such a question.
“What nonsense are you talking about? We’ve been together for ten years. We’ve done everything couples do. Of course this child
is mine.”
Julian frowned impatiently. “Don’t tell me you secretly hooked up with another man?”
Lilian pursed her lips, looking at me with utter disdain.
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Of course she knew I was innocent, because when I first got pregnant, she had secretly asked the hospital to run a paternity test during one of my checkups, confirming the child was Julian’s.
But what she probably didn’t realize was that a secretly obtained paternity test wouldn’t stand as evidence in court.
As expected, Lilian handed the test results to the judge. “Your Honor, here is the proof. Clara Whitmore is pregnant with the Lancaster family’s child. So, she must give the baby to us and also pay us five million dollars in child support,” she declared aggressively.
But this wasn’t the attitude she had before.
When I first got pregnant, she repeatedly told me that their family only wanted a boy. If it were a girl, I would have to fend for her
myself.
Yet now, she had changed her tune, not caring whether it was a boy or a girl, only greedily thinking about seizing the child’s
inheritance.
Perhaps sensing my anger, the baby gently moved inside me, as if softly comforting me.
“Don’t worry, my child. Mommy won’t give you up. Whether you’re a boy or a girl, you’re my angel and my precious
treasure.”
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