She immediately understood and, with a hoarse voice, refused to back down.
"Bill, just like Arthur said, or I won't divorce even if it kills me. I've been with you most of my life. I've done nothing to betray you. You can spread whatever you like. I don't care."
For as long as I can remember, this was the most resolute I'd ever seen my mother.
A look of surprise flashed across my father's face.
Judy tightened her grip on his arm, first glancing at her stomach, then cautiously asking him.
"What should we do?"
By this point, I was already helping my mother upstairs.
Behind us, I heard my father's low voice, "Don't worry. I have ways to get rid of them. That large sum will be ours."
Judy's voice dripped with sickly sweetness, "You're the best, Bill."
My father chuckled, "In which way do you mean?"
Judy playfully punched his chest, "You're awful."
6.
The two of them had become so brazen.
Before my father could make things harder for my mother, I made my move.
Because I had already obtained a replica of that precious artifact and secretly switched it with the real one in my father's study.
The password to my father's safe was actually Judy's birthday.
I called the police.