Chapter 1: The Price He Put on My Children
My fiancé pressured me to send my five kids to live with their grandma or he wouldn't marry me — my response left him speechless.
My husband passed away a few years ago, leaving me to raise our five children on my own.
The youngest had just turned one at the time.
Those first few years nearly broke me.
Thankfully, my mom lived nearby and helped whenever she could while I worked double shifts just to make ends meet.
Two years later, I met Andrew.
He honestly seemed like a wonderful man.
He got along well with my kids, and I started believing that maybe I had a chance to be happy again.
He proposed, and we started planning the wedding.
At that point, I felt like the happiest woman in the world.
But I couldn't have been more wrong.
After we met his parents, Andrew came to me and said:
"My parents think you should give your mom guardianship of the kids.
Let them grow up with their grandmother."
I nearly fainted when I heard him.
"What are you talking about?
They're my children, and they're staying with me.
Why would your parents even want that?"
He just shrugged and said:
"Because they're not my kids, and my parents don't want anything to do with them.
They'll cut me out of their will, Alice!
So send the kids to your mom, or there won't be a wedding."
I felt the color drain from my face.
"Andrew, I don't care about your inheritance.
My kids are staying with me.
You can't even ask me something like that!"
He looked at me as if I were the one doing something terrible and said:
"I work in the family business.
Because of me, you actually have a chance at a better life instead of working double shifts at some store.
Who else is going to want you with five kids?
I'm your only option.
So either you give the kids up, or there won't be a wedding.
I'm not losing the family business over a bunch of kids..."
And that's when I realized how blind I'd been.
I hadn't seen who Andrew really was.
How greedy and selfish he actually was.
He was willing to use our wedding to pressure me?
So because of his family business, I was supposed to give up my children?
Well, he'd underestimated me too.
I knew how to stand up for myself and my kids.
Did having money suddenly give someone the right to behave like this?
It was time for Andrew to learn a lesson.
So I smiled and said:
"Of course, Andrew.
You're right.
I'll arrange everything exactly the way you want.
But I have one very important condition."
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What is Alice's condition — and will Andrew regret every word he just said?
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