In The Language Of Betrayal

Synopsis

The party held to welcome my return to the family ended with me in bed with Charlie Murphy, the untouchable golden boy of the city's elite circle. He defied his powerful family to engage himself to me, the true heiress in a wheelchair. Five years later, pregnant and overjoyed, I was just about to tell him the news when I found him in my father's study with my hidden pregnancy test. Stunned, I heard him say coldly to my father in Navilian, "Bruce, your daughter is pregnant. But a child unwanted by its father doesn't deserve to live. "Sign the waiver absolving Sylvia of any responsibility for crippling Wendy and grant her a generous share of assets and stocks. Do that, and I'll publicly recognize your plain daughter and let her keep the child." What he didn't realize was that, despite growing up in a small town, I understood that language. Now I knew the truth—the car "accident" that broke my legs was caused by Sylvia Foley, the woman who stole my life. And Charlie knew it too, yet he still chose to protect her. My love and my child were just bargaining chips to force my father's hand. At that moment, my heart shattered. If that was his game, I'd play along. And I would make them pay dearly for it.