Chapter 2

After dismissing two attentive servants, I couldn't help but feel mentally exhausted.

I looked down at my big belly.

Hatred suddenly bloomed in my eyes.

When you have a passionate romance with a man, and then he sleeps with you.

The next day, he disappears without a trace.

When you investigate, you discover even his name was fake.

How could you not hate such a man?

And I had encountered exactly that kind of man.

He was the biological father of the child in my belly.

What's even more tragic is that my fate was full of unexpected turns.

That day, abandoned and crying my heart out on the street, a car pulled up smoothly beside me.

Then I was violently dragged into the car by a drunk Tobias.

His eyes were bloodshot as he violated me while hysterically cursing and screaming at his parents.

"Why don't you two like Alice? Why?

"Fine, fine, fine. You insist I have a child? Then I'll find a woman to have one with, so you'll have nothing to say."

This Alice was the kept woman he had now, the woman he loved most, the woman his parents looked down upon.

I think he deliberately orchestrated this scandal.

He deliberately let his parents know that the woman they despised was still with him.

His purpose was obvious—still to anger his parents.

And I was just a tool.

I was terrified, helpless, struggling.

Fortunately, at the last moment, he passed out drunk on top of me.

We didn't actually have sex.

The next day, Tobias dragged me straight to city hall.

"Since what was supposed to happen already happened, let's register our marriage."

That's when I understood—he thought he'd actually done it with me the night before.

In front of this domineering man, I had no choice.

Thinking of my ex's disappearance filled me with even more hatred.

I just broke down completely and, in a fit of anger, registered the marriage with him.

But right after registering, I regretted it.

Tobias's parents—my wealthy in-laws—showed me no kindness.

Tobias didn't defend me either, just sneered.

After marriage, he ignored me completely. We never even shared a bed.

But what no one expected was that I got pregnant.

My in-laws never came to see me. They seemed very busy, flying all over the country, constantly out of sight.

Tobias stared at my belly in silence, his expression inscrutable, finally swallowing this unexpected development through gritted teeth.

Only I was crying inside, because this child wasn't his.

In Tobias's house, aborting it had become impossible.

But when the truth came out, what would become of me and the child?

I wanted to escape, but servants and bodyguards watched me twenty-four hours a day.

Even if I ran away, with the Blackwood family's power, catching me would be child's play.

Now, the news media was making a huge fuss denouncing Tobias, while doing everything to defend and beautify me.

Unsurprisingly, it was all the work of Blackwood Group's rivals.

But all of this made me even more anxious.

From my time in contact with Tobias, he was clearly a pathological violent maniac.

When he lost control of his emotions, servants and bodyguards alike would suffer for no reason.

Broken heads and broken limbs were commonplace.

Afterward, he could settle everything with money.

If he found out the child in my belly wasn't his, my fate was easy to imagine.

So, even though I now had a hundred million in my account.

All I could think was: "What do I do?"