"What we have is something you could never compete with. All you ever did was embarrass them."
Audrey stepped closer, her voice dropping to a low, satisfied murmur.
"Did you really think the baby you lost in that car accident was just bad luck?"
"Edmund planned the whole thing. Even your uterus, which the doctors could have saved, he told them to remove."
My eyes flew wide open, my voice rising before I could stop it.
"What did you just say?"
"I told him that if you ever had a child of your own, you'd mistreat Felix and fight over the family fortune. I said the threat had to be eliminated for good. And he went right along with it."
She ran her hand over her lower belly, smug satisfaction radiating from every pore.
"But I'm different. My sister left things behind when she died, and I'm one of them. My baby carries my sister's bloodline too."
"That's why Edmund was willing to get the certificate with me. When he found out I was pregnant, he was overjoyed. He said we're family. As for you and that dead little bastard of yours? You were always outsiders."