“Who is responsible for your pregnancy, Laura?” Jerry Phillips shouted for the third time in a minute. His face was red with anger, and his veins were protruding from his neck as he looked at his second daughter with all the hate and disappointment he was feeling. “I don’t know, dad; I don’t know,” Laura replied again and again, her eyes filled with tears as she begged her father. “Shut your mouth, Laura, and quit telling us all the lies; we all know you never wanted to be betrothed to Jared,” Anna Phillips, Laura’s stepmother, said, feigning displeasure for her stepdaughter's predicament. “I am telling the truth; I swear it; please, someone should believe me,” Laura pleaded again. “Your father offers you a better life, and all you can do is throw it away,” Anna said again, adding more fuel to the fire and making Jerry angry at his mistake of a daughter. “Do one thing, Laura, just one thing, so that you don’t end up a shame to this family and you can’t do it,” Jerry said as his an
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