The IVF Secret That Shook a Dynasty novel Chapter 125

Dylan and Loretta fell silent.

Vivica took a deep, shaky breath, her chest trembling as she exhaled. After so much back and forth, she had finally achieved a satisfactory outcome.

She looked at Joseph, her expression filled with gratitude. He didn't look back at her. Instead, he turned to Roderic and instructed him to draft the settlement agreement immediately.

Her phone buzzed, pulling her from her thoughts. Seeing it was her mother calling, Vivica instinctively frowned and looked at Fletcher. “Did you tell my family what’s been going on?”

Even though she had been assaulted, her face bruised and battered, Vivica hadn't told her parents. She knew it would be useless; they’d just subject her to a litany of unwelcome lectures. So, she bore it all alone. After her parents got the money to bail out their precious son, they hadn't contacted her for days. It was clear she was nothing more than a source of cash for them. For them to call now, at this specific time…

Fletcher, still seething, snapped, “Why would I talk to them? They’re nothing but a bunch of bloodsucking parasites.”

Vivica had no retort. She could stand tall against anything else, but when it came to her dysfunctional family, she was defenseless. If Fletcher hadn't called them, then this call couldn't be good news. She silenced her phone without answering.

A moment later, a series of notifications pinged from WhatsApp. She glanced down and saw several voice messages from her mother. With others present, it wasn't appropriate to play them aloud. She waited a few moments, then opened the chat and used the speech-to-text feature.

[Vivica, has Chaim been discharged? Why is his room empty?]

Vivica frowned. They went to the hospital again?

[I had some free time today, so I made some soup for Chaim. I even bought an organic chicken and cooked it myself. But when I got here, the room was empty. The nanny and Chaim are both gone.]

[Vivica, is Chaim out of the hospital? Is his condition stable, or did you move him to another facility? Honestly, you don’t tell your family anything about these major events.]

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