Chapter 4

Ever since the ultrasound showed I was carrying four baby boys, I had gone from being the Blackwood family's precious treasure to their living, breathing deity. I was untouchable.

To Margaret, I was no longer just the woman who married her son. She looked at me like a walking jackpot and the savior of the Blackwood bloodline all rolled into one.

She cleared out a space in the hallway for a massive portrait of me. She even had fresh white lilies delivered twice a day to sit beneath the portrait.

That vintage emerald necklace was permanently around my neck now.…