Buying My Forever Wife novel Chapter 447

Ivy stared at Sylvia, incredibly irritated by the woman's complete lack of boundaries when using Alaric's first name, and replied without holding back.

"My spending time with Stella is my business, and your attempts to bond with her are yours. I don't see how the two conflict."

Telling her to stay away from the child—wasn't that just a manipulative scheme to make Stella feel abandoned whenever she needed her stepmother?

Was Sylvia trying to turn the girl against her just so she would choose her biological mother by default?

Ivy had no idea what kind of person Sylvia really was.

But she knew all she had to do was focus on being a good mother; everything else was irrelevant noise.

Seeing that Ivy refused to back down, Sylvia leaned into her pathetic victim act.

"If you're always hovering around, my daughter won't even look at me!"

"Ivy, you're already married to Alaric. If you want a child so badly, you can have your own! Why are you trying to steal my baby from me?"

The accusation grated horribly against Ivy's ears.

Especially when Sylvia put on that tragic, bullied expression, making Ivy's blood boil even hotter.

"What do you mean, I'm stealing your baby?"

Sylvia buried her face in her hands and began sobbing loudly, making a massive scene in front of the growing crowd of parents.

"Aren't you?! I gave birth to Stella! Alaric only gave me one week, yet you're trying to strip away the only alone time I have to bond with my own flesh and blood!"

"You're deliberately sabotaging my chances of connecting with my daughter!"

Hearing the commotion, the surrounding crowd began casting strange, judging glares at the two of them.

Some even started whispering and pointing fingers.

Watching the woman's ridiculous theatrical performance, Ivy actually wanted to laugh.

Since this woman clearly had zero shame, Ivy saw absolutely no reason to spare her any dignity.

Refusing to back down in front of the nosy crowd, Ivy raised her voice for all to hear.

"You abandoned your own child for five whole years! The girl bonded with me and wants to stay with me, and now you suddenly crawl out of the woodwork claiming I'm the one stealing her?!"

Wiping away her crocodile tears, Sylvia kept her sob story going.

"Do you really think I didn't want her? Alaric took her away from me! It took me ages to finally track her down here!"

Hoping to weaponize public opinion to force Ivy into submission, she shamelessly grabbed Ivy's hands and begged hysterically.

"Ivy, please! I'm begging you! Just let me be alone with my daughter! I can't survive without her! If you want a baby, go make one yourself! You're a woman, it's not like you're infertile!"

God only knew how much she would weaponize the kid to flaunt her superiority later.

On the other end of the line, Alaric fell completely silent.

When a solid minute passed without a word, Ivy demanded,

"Is that a no?"

Alaric replied with practiced patience. "I already gave her a week. I'm confident Stella will still choose you when the time is up."

He couldn't exactly go back on a hard deadline he'd just set that morning.

More importantly, that woman was the widow of his fallen brother in arms.

And his brother had died because of him.

He couldn't just throw her out onto the streets like garbage.

Giving her a strict seven-day window before forcefully evicting her meant she would have absolutely no grounds to complain.

Ivy immediately realized it was too late to reverse the damage.

The venomous snake was already inside the mansion, and ripping her out now was going to be a nightmare.