Chapter 3

I frowned.

That was when it hit me that when Richard and the others dragged me out of the orphanage and forced me to marry a man in a vegetative state in Sharon's place, they made their demands clear.

I had to get pregnant by any means necessary, and then insist the child was Alex's.

As Alex's wife and the mother of his only heir, I was supposed to secure shares in the Ford family and use my position to win more projects for the Summers family.

Otherwise, they'd throw my mom's ashes to the dogs.

As for what would…