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    Simon felt more lost than ever before. He didn’t even know how he was supposed to face her from now on.

    “The woman in the video isn’t Elsa!”

    Even Marilyn was stunned.

    She hadn’t expected Elsa, who always seemed so noble and elegant, to be such a mess in private.

    But they were in the same boat–if one sank, so would the other. At a time like this, she had no choice but to defend Elsa.

    Looking pitifully at Victor, she pleaded, “Victor, please help Elsa… Lily is so calcting and cunning. She must have faked this video just to ruin Elsa. She hates Elsa for stealing Mr. Jones from her. This is her revenge–she wants to destroy Elsa!”

    “Marilyn, the ones who are always scheming and ndering others–aren’t they you and Elsa?”

    Victor had personally witnessed Elsa deliberately fall off the stage to frame Lily. How could he believe Marilyn’s lies?

    Family mattered to him most. To him, Lily was his respected sister–inw, and that made her family.

    And Victor was always protective of his own. There was no way he would side with a parasite like Elsa, who never stopped targeting his sister–inw.

    Ignoring the pain shing in Marilyn’s eyes, he spoke with ruthless finality. “Our engagement and marriage are canceled. I can give you financialpensation, but I will never bring a selfish, malicious, and foolish woman like you into my home.”

    “What?”

    Marilyn staggered back, almost losing her bnce.

    Her eyes filled with pain, her expression fragile and pitiful to the extreme.

    She knew Victor was disciplined, honorable, and a man who never broke his word. He carried responsibility heavily on his shoulders.

    She had always believed that once he promised to marry her, he would never go back on it.

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    Never in her worst nightmares did she think that, with their engagement nearly finalized, he would break his promise and refuse to marry her.

    How could he betray her like this? How could he wound her heart so deeply?

    Yes, she loved money–but the so–calledpensation he offered couldn’tpare to the Luke family’s vast fortune.

    She had to marry him.

    “Marilyn, if you had stayed in your ce, even without love between us, I would have taken responsibility for you and treated you fairly.”

    Victor’s voice was as cold as ever. “But you shouldn’t have been deceitful. You shouldn’t have joined hands with Elsa to repeatedly harm my family.”

    Harm his family…

    So in his eyes, Lily was his family?

    But if he saw Lily as family, then what was she, Marilyn, when she had already given him her innocence?

    The more she thought about it, the more resentment consumed her.

    Anger and bitterness twisted her face until she lost control, shrieking like a madwoman. “Victor, you can’t do this to me!”

    “That night–I didn’t take the morning–after pill. It’s toote now. I might already be pregnant with your child. The child in my belly would be your flesh and blood–the Luke family’s bloodline! You can’t abandon me and our child!”

    At her words, Victor’s face went pale, as white as the cor of his shirt.

    He didn’t know if he even wanted children, but one thing he knew for certain–he absolutely didn’t want Marilyn to give birth to his.

    But that night, she had saved him, and it was true that he had forced himself on her.

    If she really was pregnant, he couldn’t bring himself to destroy an innocent life.

    Closing his eyes in torment, he opened them again, red veins webbing across his gaze as if they might tear through the corners.

    But still, he didn’t waver. “I told you–I’ll give you money aspensation. Whatever amount

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    you name, I’ll try to meet it. Marriage is impossible. One night together doesn’t guarantee. pregnancy. Even if you are pregnant, once it’s confirmed, we’ll talk about the child then.”

    “Victor…”

    Marilyn trembled with rage.

    She thought her im of possible pregnancy would soften him, that he would show her some pity. But his heart was still cold as stone.

    Seeing that he wouldn’t even look at her, that his decision wouldn’t change, hatred burned so hot through her that her body shook.

    She wanted to scream, to curse, to fall apart in hysteria.

    But reason held her back. She knew if she lost control, he would only despise her more, then all hope would be gone.

    But how could a man not care about his own child?

    Especially Henry and Grace–they must be longing for a great–grandchild.

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    If Lily’s child were to die, and she gave birth to the Luke family’s first grandson, the elders would surely side with her. Even if Victor refused, they would force him to marry her.

    And once they were married, once they lived together day and night–she was certain her charm would make him fall hopelessly in love with her.

    She no longer looked at Victor. Instead, her gaze turned venomously toward Adeline, still standing on stage.

    That night, Victor had gone wild with Adeline, as if he had never seen a woman before.

    She refused to believe he would treat Adeline with such coldness if Adeline imed she might be carrying his child.

    It was all Adeline’s fault.