Love, Lies, and Lubricant. How a Delivery Exposed His Double Life Novel - Chapter 21

Chapter 1 Chapter 1 My husband Dante Shaw's true love and I both received our pregnancy test results on the same day. My child-Dante's own flesh and blood. Hers? Origins unknown. But to preserve her "reputation," my husband publicly announced at the family banquet that the child in her womb belonged to the Shaw family's adopted son. While my three-month-old baby was supposedly an "accident" from my business dealings with a client. I broke down and demanded to know why. He just said coolly: "Wren, Nina's delicate.

She can't withstand gossip." Nina suddenly frowned and touched her belly, and Dante immediately turned to support her, his movements so practiced it was as if they'd rehearsed it a thousand times. I wiped away my tears and made up my mind-since you've humiliated me, I'll return it to you a hundredfold! I showed Dante the surveillance screenshot on my phone of Nina kissing some unknown man in a hotel hallway.

"In that case, are you going to claim the kid in her belly too?" "Her reputation is more important than anything, right?" He stared at the photo, his fingertips gripping the phone so hard they turned white: "Wren, don't push me." "Push you?" I yanked open the drawer and slammed down a stack of papers. "Here's the deed to the condo you bought Nina with our money.

Here's the eight hundred grand your mom transferred to her as 'nutrition fees.' And this-" I held up my phone, showing a screenshot from Nina's manager's Instagram-location tagged in Paris, caption reading "Baby's first gift haul." Dante grabbed my wrist so hard I gasped. "You've been investigating her?" "Nope," I pulled my arm free, the skin already red from his grip, and picked up the divorce papers from the table. "You just let her waltz up to me and rub it in my face." The agreement had only one demand: I wanted the lakefront house my parents had given us before we married.

But Dante tore up the papers instead. His voice went soft, almost pleading: 10:28 Love, Lies, and Lubricant. How a Delivery Exposed His Double Life 15.7% Chapter 1 "Wren, you know I love you." "Once Nina has the baby, I'll come back to you." Before he could finish, his phone rang. "Nina, babe, you're craving something sour? Hold up, I'll grab it and bring it right over..." I suddenly remembered last week when I was dying for some lychees. What had Dante said then? "Lychees are bad for our baby.