All Chapters of Done Being a Pushover Mr CEO, Your Wife Is the Richest Woman: Chapter 11 - Chapter 14

The needle slid into Seraphina's arm, and Margaret's fingers locked around her other wrist like a handcuff. "Hold still," said Dr. Alder, a pale man with careful hands and a nervous cough. "A small pinch, Miss Lane." "Don't speak to her unless you must," Margaret said. "She is here under a borrowed name, and I intend to keep it that way." Dark red filled the glass vial. Seraphina watched it, her stomach turning, thinking: That's my child's whole life in there. Eleven weeks old, and already a case file. On the steel counter lay a sealed plastic bag containing Adrian's silver hairbrush, which Margaret had stolen from his dressing table that morning. Beside it lay a second bag for Vanessa's sample. Two women. One man. One question that would decide everything. "Results in three days," Dr. Alder said. "I'll send them to you directly, Mrs. Cole, as you instructed." Seraphina turned her head toward the frosted window of the lab door. Outside, parked at the curb, was a white convertibl

The scream came from the kitchen at eleven at night.Seraphina was halfway down the servants' corridor, one hand on the wall and the other under her swollen belly, when she heard it: a crash of pots and then a thin, strangled cry she knew at once.Mrs. Holloway.She ran. Thunder cracked over the roof as it rained heavily, she reached the kitchen door, and what she saw stopped her breath.Julian Park had the old housekeeper pinned against the stove, one hand flat on her chest, the other holding a kitchen knife. Not at her throat. Lazily, almost politely, at her apron string, as though he were about to cut a ribbon."I only want to understand," he was saying pleasantly. "What exactly did you see in the garden, Mrs. Holloway?""Nothing, sir. I swear on my life.""I believe you." He turned the blade so it caught the light. "But a woman who sees nothing should be able to say it without trembling.""Mr. Park."Seraphina's voice came out steadier than she felt. Julian glanced over his should