Chapter 1899

“Don’t be so quick to make absolute guarantees. What if there’s a chance?” Padgett looked at his niece’s husband with undisguised contempt.

A man who couldn’t control his own zipper was fundamentally incapable of achieving true greatness.

“There is absolutely zero chance.”

Shockingly, the husband and wife answered in perfect unison.

Padgett shifted his gaze directly onto his niece.

Regina stated flatly, “I slipped drugs into his food. He is permanently sterile!”

Larkin declared loudly, “I got a vasectomy! I can’t ever have kids again!”

The dual confessions hit the living room like a lightning strike, leaving everyone utterly paralyzed.

At the exact same moment, the husband and wife processed what the other had just screamed. They turned to stare at each other in sheer, unadulterated horror.

“You drugged me?” Larkin gasped.

“You castrated yourself?” Regina asked in disbelief.

“Regina, how could you drug me? Do you have absolutely zero trust in me?”

Larkin entirely ignored her question, looking like a man who had just been stabbed in the heart by his true love.

“What do you think?” Regina looked at him with a dark, mocking smile. “I had to secure my own children’s inheritance.”

“After all, at least seventy percent of the empire you’re sitting on today was built on my blood, sweat, and tears.”

She wasn’t denying Larkin’s hustle, but without Regina, Larkin would have remained a nobody.

They had been together since their college days, eventually marrying and building a life together. knew each other down to their very bones.

And it was precisely because she knew him so well that, the moment he first cheated, she quietly drugged him to eliminate any future threats.

What she hadn’t anticipated was that Larkin had actually gone out and gotten a vasectomy on his own.

Larkin offered a bitter, self-deprecating smile. “I’ve told you a thousand times, everything I built belongs to you and the kids. I just wanted to blow off a little steam on the side.”

Besides, wasn’t she currently having the time of her life with her own roster of young, athletic boy toys?

Regina’s eyes darkened. Men were inherently untrustworthy. The only person she could ever rely on was herself.

Back on their college campus, hadn’t they sworn eternal vows to each other?

Yet Larkin had still shattered their boundaries the moment he found success.

“After my first mistake, I immediately went and got the procedure done.”

He knew he had crossed a line he could never uncross.

He had already betrayed her; he refused to betray their children’s future as well.

The Churchill family watched the exchange in stunned silence.

“Larkin is actually pretty ruthless,” Claire whispered in awe.

Dane’s mouth twitched. He didn’t say a word, but he entirely agreed with her assessment.

“Is this whole vasectomy thing going to become a new family tradition?” Owen muttered under his breath.

He hadn’t missed the fact that

Pahis aunt Ophelia, and even

his own mother were all looking at

in with genuine respect

Though, to be fair, Ophelia and Karla seemed far more in awe of Regina.

Their aunt was an absolute savage.

She had literally poisoned her own husband to secure the bag.

An absolute icon of their generation!

Claire wholeheartedly agreed with the sentiment.

“So, there is absolutely no physical way that child is mine.” Larkin hag

zero desire to argue over the fact that his wife had secretly sterilized him.

He never planned on having more kids anyway.

They had a son and a daughter, and that was plenty.

More children only meant more instability and vicious inheritance wars.

Meanwhile, across the city, the Thorne family was viciously interrogating Jocelyn about the identity of her baby’s father.

If Claire hadn’t publicly exposed her at the police station, Jocelyn’s pregnancy would have remained a secret.

But now that the truth was out, her parents were glaring at their historically pampered youngest daughter with unprecedented fury.

“Jocelyn, whose child is this?”

“If someone took advantage of you, if someone lied to you, your father and I will risk everything to get you justice!”

Beatrice Thorne was still desperately trying to protect her golden child.

Alistair Thorne, however, was

already deeply resentful, entirelyet

because his phone had been ringing off the hook with relatives prying for gossip content belongs to

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If she had a boyfriend, getting pregnant out of wedlock wouldn’t have been a huge scandal in this day and age.

But if Jocelyn was actually a homewrecker for an older married man, she had permanently dragged the family name through the mud.