Steven's question cut into my heart like a blade.
Every ounce of strength left my body as I slumped to the ground.
Why would the heavens play such a cruel joke on me?
Getting pregnant with Hailey had been a complete accident back then—one might even say it had happened too easily.
Yet now I schemed relentlessly to sleep with Steven, praying for another life to save Hailey.
However, my pleas went unanswered. Steven smashed my phone against the floor. The suffocating pressure on my throat was excruciatingly intense. This was purely Steven's hatred toward me, unrelated to the Shepard family.
I closed my eyes and stopped struggling.
If Steven had discovered our daughter's existence, we would certainly have died.
But perhaps... there was a one-in-a-hundred-thousand chance that after my
