She looked at me without feeling sorry. "For the sake of our family alliance, the child must be born. I’m telling you, not asking.”
I gripped my fists tight and gave up at last. “Raline, let’s get a divorce.”
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My mother-in-law instantly stood up and slapped me hard across the face.
“Raline has treated you so well and you still dare talk about divorce? How could you be so heartless!”
The elders and uncles of the Leighton Family surrounded me, trying to talk me out of it.
“Henry, Raline still cares about you. If she really got pregnant with Hudson’s child in secret, you wouldn’t even know, right?”
“That’s true. Raline is doing all this for the sake of the Leighton Family. If Hudson gets angry and turns against her, the Leighton Group could be in trouble.”
I stared at the elders talking about right and wrong in disbelief, then suddenly let out a laugh.
Raline, both embarrassed and angry, yelled, “Enough! Henry will understand.”
I looked around at my mad relatives. This was the company and family I had fought so hard to protect, even turning down a job offer from a Lucky 500 company.