Clara stared at the woman in bewilderment. "What's this about money?"
The woman smirked disdainfully. "Name your price to give up rights to the child."
Clara's entire body trembled with shock—they wanted her to sell her unborn baby?! Her hands instinctively flew to her stomach.
Her fingers clenched into fists as she bit out each word. "I don't want your money."
James' mother raised one sculpted brow. "Then why come to us, Miss Green? Trying to land my son with some cheap marriage trap?"
Clara almost choked on the ridiculous assumption. Was this how the wealthy always thought?
The elderly Mrs. Lancaster frowned. "I asked Clara to come. As for her pregnancy, my old friend Dr. Laflin from maternity hospital told me."
James barely stifled a curse. Had he known the doctor couldn't keep s
