throat, but I swallowed it down. My hands shook violently. My babies.
“They implanted new embryos,” Nora confessed, stepping back as if expecting me to strike her. “Embryos Mrs. Harrington had created years ago, using her late husband Conrad’s frozen sperm.”
Graham let out a sound that was half-gasp, half-sob. “You made my sons… my brothers? You used my wife as a breeding dog?”
Vivian slapped him, a resounding crack that echoed in the courtyard. “You were weak, Graham! You were squandering the name. Conrad’s blood was the only thing that could save this family. I needed a pure heir, and this little nobody had a young, healthy body. She was nothing but a vessel!”
I stepped forward. The sheer gravity of my fury made Vivian take a step back. I had meticulously planned to ruin them financially, but this—this was a violation of my soul, of my flesh. I