From His Ex-Wife to the World's Most Sought-After Restorer (Jade and Hudson) novel Chapter 191

"On your knees!"

Knowing Bert's temperament, Jade knew she had to play along to move her plan forward.

She complied and knelt. Looking around, only Bert and Emily were in the living room. Both were livid, staring at her as if she were a cold-blooded criminal.

As if their glares weren't enough, Emily marched over and jabbed a finger at her.

"Have you lost your mind? Who gave you the right to abort that child without a word?"

Emily wasn't finished. She grabbed Jade's shoulders and shook her violently.

"Give me back my grandson! I want my grandson back!"

Jade let herself be shaken like a rag doll, her body limp, as if she might break at any second.

Emily stopped, realizing she was being too rough, but her eyes remained murderous.

Bert finally spoke, his voice booming with icy authority.

"Jade, you knew how much this family valued that child. To end the pregnancy knowing our expectations... you'd better have a d*mn good reason."

"He's right," Emily hissed. "Give us a reason, or you're staying on that floor until you do!"

Jade kept her head down. When she looked up, her eyes were swimming with tears.

"Bert, Emily... I wanted to keep the baby, but I couldn't. I couldn't bear what Hudson and Amara were doing to me."

Bert eyed her with suspicion.

"Hudson put her in a psychiatric hospital. What more do you want? What else is there to be unhappy about?"

Jade lowered her head again, the picture of heartbreak.

"I wish that were still true."

"What do you mean?" Emily asked, sensing a shift.

"Did Hudson bring her out already?"

As long as Jade played on that fear, she'd get exactly what she wanted.

"What a total disgrace!" Emily paced the room, cursing under her breath before turning back to Jade.

"Even so, you shouldn't have been so impulsive. That was a Walter heir, not just some random fetus! Are you stupid? Why didn't you come to us first?"

Jade finally looked Emily in the eye, her voice a sharp challenge.

"Emily, if it were you, would you give a child to a man who had no boundaries? To a man who let another woman trample over his wife until there was nothing left?"

To do so would be a life sentence of misery.

Emily's face flickered. She shot a look at Bert, her body noticeably tensing.

Stranger still, Bert, who usually ruled the house, avoided Emily's gaze. He cleared his throat and moved the conversation along.

"Is this the truth, Jade? You aren't lying to us?"

Jade looked away from the strange tension between the parents, hiding her confusion, and answered firmly.