The Stand-In Mother’s Verdict
Language: en
I knew the countdown to my destruction had begun. I stood there, holding the boy my sister had abandoned seven years ago. Finally, I admitted to the matriarch of the Sterling empire that I wasn't the woman who spent that fateful, passionate night with her son, the billionaire heir Elias Sterling. Vanessa, my sister, had returned. With a cold, gentle smile, she pulled the boy into her arms, claiming the status she had discarded. She looked at me and seethed, "You’ve occupied my spot long enough, Audrey. It’s time you gave Elias and Leo back to me." After a long, suffocating silence, I…