Chapter 1

I froze, and I finally understood what was going on.

Megan was the head of the household.

Without her help, how could that father and daughter have been added to our family registry?

I pointed at the last two pages of the registry and demanded, “Megan, what is this?”

“Why are Derek Blake and Lily Blake on our family registry?”

Megan looked completely blank.

She took the registry from my hand with a show of surprise and said, “Th-this registry has other people on it? I had no idea!”

“Why did you suddenly pull the registry out for no reason?”

As soon as I heard that, my anger flared even more.

“Megan, stop pretending!”

“You’re the head of the household. If you didn’t agree, how could these two have been added to our registry?”

Seeing that she couldn’t bluff her way through it, guilt flashed across Megan’s face.

Then she pretended to remember something and smiled at me awkwardly.

“Oh, now that you mention it, I remember.”

“Not long ago, my coworker Derek was getting divorced from his wife, and even his child’s registration had to be moved out. So I thought I’d let them temporarily use our family registry. We were always going to move them out later.”

“Don’t be mad. It’s really nothing.”

Looking at Megan’s grin.

I was so angry my fists clenched until they turned white.

“Nothing?”

“Today I went to enroll Noah. The staff said the enrollment slot had already been used. Was it taken by this girl, Lily? We spent eight million on this house just for the school district.”

“Now all that money is wasted, and Noah still has no school. You call that nothing?”

When Megan saw how terrible my expression was, she stopped smiling too.

She pulled out a few brochures from somewhere and shoved them into my hands.

Trying to calm me down, she said, “Honey, don’t be angry yet. Anger is bad for your health.”

“How could I not care about Noah’s school? Look, I’ve already arranged everything.”

As she spoke, Megan pointed at the brochures.

“See, we don’t have to go to Westbridge Elementary. I think this private elementary school is pretty good too. The teachers, the environment, and the college placement rate are all great.”

“Since the spot was already used by Lily, let’s just forget it. It’s only elementary school. There’s no need to...”

Before Megan even finished, I knew exactly what she was thinking.

I was so angry I grabbed the brochures and slapped them right in Megan’s face.

“Forget it my ass.”

“Westbridge Elementary is one of the top three elementary schools in the city. So many parents fight tooth and nail just to get in. A school that good, and you want to hand it over to your coworker’s daughter instead of our son. Does that sound reasonable to you?”

After saying so much, I didn’t even want to keep arguing with Megan.

I simply laid down the final ultimatum:

“Listen, Megan, I don’t care what your relationship with Derek is, whether you’re just coworkers or if there’s something shady going on. That school spot belongs to my son, Noah!”

“No matter what, you have to get that spot back for me.”

I took a deep breath and didn’t leave her any room to save face:

“If you can’t get it back, then we’re getting a divorce!”