Chapter 3

Lucy yelled, "Drop the poor little girl act! Stop screaming! It's just a graze!"

"You're going to regret this, Lucy!" I warned.

"Nonsense! I'm going to beat some manners into you so you'll learn not to disgrace the family!" Lucy barked.

That was all Lucy had wanted to do to me ever since I married Trent.

She often told me it was my duty to treat her with respect and even gave me a list of chores, which included washing her underwear, among other things.

However, she failed to realize that Trent was a paranoid supermale and that I had been forced into marrying him.

As soon as he found out, he tore the list into pieces and kicked her out of the house, leaving Lucy with a huge grudge against me ever since.

Finally, she found the perfect opportunity to get her revenge.

Still gripping my hair, Lucy dragged me to the pool and spoke with a cruel tone. "You need to cool off and realize what a disgrace you've been to the family, you wench!"

Without warning, she dunked me into the pool, and I was instantly overwhelmed by the agonizing pain of not being able to breathe.

I tried to break free from her grasp, but I couldn’t.

Finally, Lucy pulled me out just as I was about to reach my limit, giving me the precious time I needed to catch my breath.

I was drenched and a mess.

"You really have what's coming to you after all the discord you've tried to sow between Trent and me," Lucy said.

Once I managed to breathe again, I glared at Lucy with pure hatred in my eyes. "You'd better kill me now, or you're going to regret it for the rest of your life!"

At that moment, I hated Trent down to his core. After all, I was in this mess because he had forced me to marry him.

Lucy slapped me again, but this time, blood trickled from my lips. "Still trying to threaten me, huh? I've had enough of you!"

Lucy shoved my head back into the pool, only this time, she held me under longer before pulling me up again.

Some of the women began to fear for my life when they saw how pale I looked.

"I think that's enough, Lucy. You're going to kill her."

"We'll all end up in prison if you really do kill her."

At those words, Lucy pulled me back up and threw me onto the floor.

With disdain, she said, "That's enough for now. I'll let Trent deal with you when he gets back!"

At that moment, I also decided that when the time came, I wasn’t going to ask Trent to forgive Lucy.

Then, one of the women suddenly pointed at my belly and asked, "Lucy, look… Is she… pregnant?"

They could now see the bulge in my belly after my dress became soaked, and Lucy immediately stomped on me in fury. "You've even gotten yourself pregnant with another man?!"

Fear gripped me as I instinctively protected my belly and said, "Trent is the father!"

"Lies! Trent had a vasectomy a long time ago so he wouldn't pass on his Superman syndrome!" Lucy shouted. "You're trying to have him pass on the Bradford Group to your child, aren't you? Too bad! He already told me he was going to let my son take over!"

It was true that Trent didn't want to have kids because I disliked his Superman syndrome, and he didn't want our children to inherit it.

But that all changed after he failed to win my love. He had the reverse surgery and then I became pregnant, baby-trapping me in a marriage I never wanted.

The other women were furious when they heard this.

"What a scheming vixen!"

"Thank goodness we found out before your family's wealth fell into her hands, Lucy."

"You can't let her get away with this!"

Lucy looked at me with a cruel glint in her eyes. "I'm going to kick that bastard out of your belly… Let's see how you're going to steal our family's money this time!"

I was stricken with fear as I explained, "This baby isn't an illegal child, I swear. Trent got a reverse vasectomy. You can call him if you don't believe me!"

Lucy snorted. "I know what you're scheming, you devil. I know Trent's so head over heels for you that he wouldn't be able to harm you, even if he found out about your affair.

"In fact, he might even be tricked into raising that child for your sake!

"But that's not going to happen on my watch!"

With that, Lucy landed a powerful kick to my belly, and a searing pain shot through my body…