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045 Lines in the Sand

Author: Anney GW
last update Last Updated: 2025-06-20 11:52:10

(James)

I turn to my mother. “I’m referring to any possible future pregnancy. Not a current one.”

“You expect me to believe that? When Serena collapsed at the hospital?”

“Serena was dehydrated and has a virus. Nothing more. I think you should leave now.”

Mother turns to walk out. Good.

My father says nothing. Just looks at me and turns, expecting me to follow.

I do.

He waits until we’re down the hall and out of Serena’s earshot before he turns on me.

“You need to get a grip on your household,” he says coldly. “That girl is unraveling. And you—you’re letting her take everything down with her.”

“She’s under pressure.”

“She’s causing the pressure,” he shoots back. “I didn’t build this empire just to watch you get pussy-whipped by a bakery girl with a martyr complex.”

My jaw tightens. “Don’t talk about her like that.”

He snorts. “I’ll talk about her however I damn well please when it’s my name that built this house. You want to act like a man, James? Then be one. You don’t ask women for p
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