Chloe knitted her pretty brows. "Do you know what’s the one question I thought about the most during my childhood?"
Taken aback, Joseph asked, "What was it?"
"Why did I have to share my father with Ava."
Chloe walked to the window and glanced at the starry sky outside. Her voice sounded soft as if her soul had returned to the distant past. She had suffered Benjamin's indifference, Ava's bullying, and Karen's hypocrisy. Although it was long ago, she still remembered it all vividly.
Was her child destined to suffer the same fate as her?
Joseph's body trembled before he pulled her into his arms. "We don't have to tell the child the truth."
Chloe struggled out of his embrace and turned to look at him. "Won't the child know even if you keep it a secret?"
"And what's the big deal if the child knows? Xavia is reckless and has lost the right to raise her child. Her child will only be grateful toward you."
If Xavia had led an honorable life and never done those vulgar things, he might have let her raise her own child, but she had lost that privilege.
"That's your opinion."
"I can guarantee that he won't disobey you and won't bully our child."
"But I'm unwilling!" Chloe's face sank. "I don't want to be anyone's stepmother."
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