Her face transformed instantly. Tears poured out like a faucet had been turned. She dropped to her knees in front of me and started slamming her forehead against the floor.
"Please, I'm sorry, I know I was wrong! Don't expose what happened between me and Patrick, I'm begging you. I don't want my reputation ruined. I won't fight for Mom and Dad's love anymore, or Carl's. The baby is yours. You're the only true daughter of the Fox family. I'll leave, I'll disappear..."
Patrick's pupils contracted. He shoved me aside and snarled.
"Serena, why do you keep dragging this out? Apologize to June right now. Tell her she's not the other woman."
The shove sent me stumbling. My lower back slammed into the corner of the table, and the pain was so sharp that tears blurred my vision.
I stared at him, my voice raw and shaking.
"Why should I apologize? Isn't that exactly what she is?"
Patrick looked at my ashen face and something in him flinched. The words on his tongue died before they left his mouth.
Carl rushed forward, pulling June to her feet, and turned on me.
"Just because you can't have children, you want to destroy June and her baby? How can you be this vicious?"