Chapter 1252: Chapter 1247: The Lancaster Family’s Mess (Part 2)
It turns out, the child she was carrying back then wasn’t his, but that man from the hotel.
They were college classmates and dated for a while. Later, that man had ambiguous relations with several girls in school. During one holiday, she went to his dorm to find him and saw him with another girl...
Caught in the act, no woman would let this slide. They had a big argument, and that man was completely unapologetic, flippantly saying if she wanted, they could have a threesome, if not, they should break up!
Catherine naturally chose the latter, slapping the man before running out of the dorm in tears.
That night, she went to a nightclub to drink away her sorrows, and by a twist of fate, ended up in bed with Gabriel Lancaster. At the time Gabriel was in his prime, and the men of the Lancaster Family were all handsome; a charismatic, successful uncle adored by young girls, and the twenty-year-old Catherine was utterly infatuated with Gabriel.
She secretly skipped classes to date him, traveled with him during holidays, and later found herself pregnant. Gabriel, married for almost ten years without having children, found Catherine’s baby to be timely, leading him to divorce his wife and marry her.
Catherine discovered Willow wasn’t her husband Gabriel’s child during a prenatal checkup. Gabriel was busy and often on business trips, so Catherine went to the hospital accompanied by the family nanny. After an ultrasound, the doctor said the baby was already over seven months old, leaving Catherine dumbfounded.
The time from when she met and married Gabriel was just about seven months, but her baby was already...
Catherine couldn’t dare tell her husband this fact. The consequences were unimaginable if Gabriel knew the truth.
It wasn’t that she craved wealth, but Gabriel, being an amazing uncle, treated her incredibly well, like a daughter, incomparable to that scumbag... Unwilling to lose Gabriel, Catherine had no choice but to keep the secret, a secret she kept for twenty-one years...
A few years ago, at a school reunion, Catherine encountered that scumbag again. They barely exchanged words then, but a few days later, the scumbag somehow obtained her number from a classmate and demanded money for his silence during a call.
Catherine certainly wouldn’t give him a penny; it was money her husband earned through hard work, why give it to a scumbag who once hurt her? Just as she was about to hang up, the scumbag threatened that if he didn’t get the money, he’d tell her husband that Willow wasn’t his biological daughter...
Catherine was puzzled as to how that scumbag knew the secret until she delivered the money to him. Upon seeing the DNA report spread out before her, she realized that the scumbag had secretly obtained her daughter’s hair for testing.
Since then, that scumbag began extorting her frequently. To keep the secret, Catherine could only pay him again and again...
"Honey, I didn’t mean to hide it from you, I was just scared..." Catherine shook her head, crying miserably, "You treat me so well, I don’t want to lose you..."
"Humph!" Gabriel turned his head aside angrily. Back then, his own brother and Joseph Lancaster’s brother competed for the Family Head position, causing a rift between the cousin families. He used to mock Joseph’s singleness, not realizing he himself would become the biggest joke.
"Robert, help Willow up," Joseph Lancaster commanded softly when he saw Willow rubbing her sore lower back, silently wiping her tears.
Robert Lancaster got up, helped his cousin up, and supported her to another sofa.
Violet Zimmerman, although the Lady of the house, sighed and rubbed her aching forehead, too tired to bother with the matter.
