A Widow's Poison, A Wife's Rebellion novel Chapter 776

Starla was speechless.

"Even if I just stay alive purely to make sure you never get to be with him, I promise you, I'll be living a very long, very healthy life," he taunted, a distinct roguish edge sliding into his tone.

The sudden arrogance made her chest heave with rage. She had called him to blow off some steam, but now she felt ten times worse.

Before she could fire back, his teasing, maddening voice came through again. "I've given you everything, wifey. Divorce isn't on the table. Got it?"

Starla gripped the phone tightly.

"Wait for me."

And with those three words, he hung up.

Starla let out a furious scream and hurled her phone back onto the bed. "Who the hell is going to wait for a bastard like you?!"

Trying to reason with a man who thrived on being completely unhinged was a guaranteed recipe for a migraine.

She tossed and turned all night, unable to shut her brain off.

At 2:00 AM, thanks to the time difference, her phone buzzed again. It was Tanya.

"Starla... I'm pregnant," Tanya whispered.

Starla had been hovering in a state of agitated half-sleep, but those words jolted her completely awake. Her brain blanked for several seconds before she finally processed it. "Why do you sound so miserable about it?"

Pregnancy was usually good news, but Tanya sounded completely devastated. Plus, considering Darian's family had literally just tried to buy her off with a measly hundred bucks to humiliate her... bringing a baby into this mess felt like an absolute disaster. It felt even more unhinged than Fairfax's behavior.

But that insult—a hundred bucks. Yeah, keeping the baby under those conditions seemed like a nightmare waiting to happen. She kept her opinion to herself and asked, "Does Darian know?"

"Not yet."

"And does he know his mother tried to pay you off like that?"

"I didn't tell him."

"Why the hell not?" Starla demanded. If Darian was the root cause of this massive conflict, he needed to know what was happening.

"If I tell him, it's just going to look like I'm trying to drive a wedge between him and his mother! How am I supposed to say it without sounding malicious?"

Starla fell silent. The woman had the nerve to do something so incredibly vicious, but Tanya felt she couldn't even speak the truth? She realized suddenly how entirely illogical relationships were. Love really didn't listen to reason.