As my grandfather walked in after I gave birth, his first words were, “My dear, wasn’t the 250,000 I sent you every month enough?” My heart stopped. “Grandpa… what money?” I whispered. At that exact moment, my husband and mother-in-law burst in with arms full of luxury bags—and froze. Their faces drained of color. That’s when I realized something was terribly wrong…

breaths that might have moved me once. “Claire, please don’t do this. You’ll ruin Mark’s career. People will find out. His reputation—”

“If consequences come,” Edward said, not even looking at her, “they belong to him, not to Claire.”

Mark’s voice softened into something desperate and small. “You wouldn’t take our daughter away from me, would you?”

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