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    Ivan, realizing how much the elders wanted a baby girl in the family, quickly pped himself on the mouth. “What a jinx I am. Forget what I said earlier–Lily’s definitely having a niece for me!”


    Grace lit up with joy at his words.


    The thought of having a soft, sweet little girl in the house in eight or nine months had Nancy smiling so wide her cheeks hurt.


    “I’m actually going to be a grandma! I can’t believe I get to be a grandma!”


    Truth be told, Nancy had given up hope of ever bing one.


    Her eldest son had once been dead set on dating men, and Lily had supposedly been infertile. Her second son seemed married to his research and had sworn off marriage and children. The youngest hadn’t even shown signs of maturing yet.


    Nancy had already resigned herself to disappointment. But now, Lily had given them a massive surprise.


    James may have been aplete disaster, but regardless of whether Lily ever forgave him, they would always see her as family.


    Her parents were gone. When she gave birth, they would be by her side, helping her recover, raising the baby together.


    Of course, the mey entirely with their useless eldest son. Even if Lily eventually married someone else, they would never be shameless enough to fight for custody. But when it came to supporting Lily and the child financially, they wouldn’t hold back a single cent.


    “Elsa, I found out where Megan ended up. James had hermitted to a psychiatric hospital. Odds are, she’s never getting out.”


    Late at night, John and Simon weren’t by Elsa’s side. Instead, it was Mathilda sitting with her in the hospital room.


    Her delicately made–up face was twisted in hatred. “That idiot Megan had the perfect chance, and she still couldn’t kill that bastard Lily’s baby…”


    “But James did divorce her.”


    “I knew it. James would never want that dirty little tramp!”


    Elsa was deeply disappointed to hear Megan had failed. But the news of the divorce gave her a flicker of satisfaction.


    A lowborn, shameless woman like Lily wasn’t worthy of John, let alone someone as brilliant as James.


    She turned sharply to Mathilda and gripped her hand, lowering her voice to a whisper. “What money I gave you? Did you use it?”


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    Elsa and Mathilda were now tightly bound together. They no longer hid anything from each other.


    Elsa knew Mathilda had connections to several human traffickers. After selling some jewelry given to her by John and Simon, she had more than enough cash on hand. Elsa had given her five million and hoped Mathilda would use her contacts to trap Lily in a remote mountain vige, where she’d be tormented day and night, suffering a fate worse than death.


    They had someone secretly watching Lily. As soon as she left Capital City, they learned she’d gone to a small town in the middle of nowhere.


    Alone, unfamiliar with the area, with no one to protect her or help her, it was the perfect moment to strike.


    “It’s in motion.”


    Mathilda nearly ground her teeth as she spoke.


    Her eyes locked onto some unseen point in the distance, her entire being radiating venom like a snake about to strike, poised for a fatal blow.


    “I spent a lot of money<i>, </i>but I finally found out which hotel Lily booked. I’ve already bribed one of the front desk girls. She made sure the room is reserved specifically for Lily.”


    “Those traffickers are already inside that room. The second Lily steps inside, she’ll be sold off to the mountains to be the broodmare for two demented brothers. Her life is over–she’ll never crawl her way back again!”


    Mathilda’s entire body trembled with hate as she spoke.


    She hated Lily.


    She hated everything.


    When she was six, she was kidnapped and sold into the mountains.


    The family who bought her did so to make her a child bride for their mentally impaired son.


    She had to take care of that imbecile, work from dawn to dusk, suffer beatings endlessly.


    When she grew older, that disgusting brute began viting her, forcing himself on her whenever he pleased.


    And it wasn’t just him.


    Other men in the vige abused her too…


    There had been two college girls who were also kidnapped and sold there. They had been kind to her, bonded with her, offered warmth in that cold hell.


    They had nned what should have been a perfect escape.


    But Mathilda had secretly told the vigers.


    She’d helped them catch the girls and joined in their punishment alongside the buyers.


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    Only then did the men in that ce start trusting her, and her life there became slightly more bearable.