“If it weren’t for the fact that my illegitimate child needed a respectable title to return to the Freddrick family, you, a barren woman, would’ve been kicked out by me and my mother long ago! Otherwise, why would I ever need you to fake a pregnancy for
RIS?
“As a trade–off, I even invested in that livestream of yours to boost your popularity. And what happened? You ruined it! All the money I put in has gone straight down the drain!”
So that was the truth. In my past life, this entire scheme had been unfolding behind my back, without me knowing a thing.
Glancing at the documents I’d gathered, everything suddenly became clear.
The Freddricks weren’t exactly an influential family, but they had a name and reputation in the city. Naturally, they wanted a boy
to carry on the family line.
Unfortunately, I was childfree by choice, and Maisie, after marrying into the family, was diagnosed as infertile. With Susan
growing desperate, she found a rural girl fresh out of college and paid her thirty thousand dollars to sleep with Alex and have his
baby.
When the girl finally got pregnant, Susan and Alex began plotting how to bring the illegitimate child into the family. They had
planned to divorce me outright, but Alex was too greedy for my family’s resources to let me go.
On top of that, Alex worked in the government. If anyone exposed that he had an illegitimate child outside of marriage, he could
very well lose his career. So instead, he had Maisie fake a pregnancy. On the day of “delivery,” they’d simply swap in his
illegitimate son and raise him under the Freddrick name.
Officially, the child would be his late brother’s only heir. In reality, it was his own son. Later, he could just find an excuse to
formally adopt the boy under his name, without me ever suspecting.
As for Maisie–widowed, infertile, and clinging to the Freddricks‘ name–if she were kicked out, she’d have nowhere to stand.
That was why she agreed to Alex’s plan. She pretended to be pregnant, demanded money in return, and used it to build her online
persona. With the livestream as her platform, she wanted to cash in big.
The two of them put on quite the show. If I hadn’t uncovered the truth in advance, even reliving this life, I would’ve been played
right into their hands again.
Looking at the numbers from that livestream, Alex must have invested at least a million already. However, after Maisie wet
herself on camera and fainted, all of that evaporated overnight. The scandal was so bad that even Alex’s superiors called to warn him to keep his head down.
After venting his anger, Alex realized words alone wouldn’t fix anything. He had to find a way to recover his losses. Maisie, however, knew in her heart that what happened to her had everything to do with me.
Alex immediately called and asked, “Clara, what tricks are you pulling behind the scenes? Do you know Maisie is in the hospital
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because of you?”
I let out a cold laugh. “Alex, I haven’t seen her in half a month. How are you so sure I’m the one behind this? Or is it that you both already know you’re guilty?”
