Chapter 548
Marcia wasn’t stupid. She knew she was being insulted, but instead of blowing up, she offered a plastic, skin-deep smile and deliberately stared at Elissa’s stomach. “Have you found a backup plan to take on you and that bastard in your belly yet?”
If Marcia had harbored any lingering doubts about whether the baby belonged to Rowan or Frank, she was entirely certain now.
This kid was absolutely a fatherless bastard.
Given Frank’s obsession with Elissa, if the baby were his, he would have proudly and publicly dragged her back down the aisle by now.
And if it were Rowan’s, he certainly wouldn’t be flying off to foreign countries to accompany other women to their prenatal appointments right now.
Tsk.
Always parading around like some pure, untouched saint, when in reality, she was juggling a dozen men.
Now she was knocked up and didn’t even know who the father was.
Tanya exploded instantly. Just as she was about to fire back a vicious retort, Elissa calmly held out an arm to stop her.
Marcia held a special status now. With the power of the Wilkinson family behind her, she could cause a massive amount of trouble for Tanya with a single word.
Elissa, however, wasn’t afraid. She smiled with breezy indifference. “Isn’t that a question you should be asking yourself?”
“You kept screaming that it was Frank’s baby, but did he claim it? Marcia, if anyone needs a desperate backup plan, it’s you!”
“You!!”
Furious, Marcia ground her teeth. “Keep dreaming, Elissa! No matter what happens, I am a daughter of the Wilkinson family now. If I ever needed a man to take responsibility, I’d find one a million times faster than you!”
The moment the words left her mouth, a notoriously vile playboy came strolling toward them. “Marcia??”
Overjoyed, the man locked onto her and marched straight in her direction.
Startled, Tanya instinctively pulled Elissa a few steps back.
It was best to stay far away from a man this ugly and filthy.
This guy’s personal life was infinitely more depraved than Slate’s.
He had a sickening fetish for group activities, swung both ways, and even when his twisted games resulted in casualties, the Crest family always covered it up.
Elissa was a beat slow to recognize him. After steadying her footing, she heard Tanya whisper in her ear, “That’s Wyatt Crest.”
It suddenly clicked this was the exact same Fourth Son of the Crest family that Paige Jensen had once tried to force her to blind date.
Marcia’s face twisted in utter disgust. Terrified that Elissa would deduce her past entanglements with him, she spun around, planning to grab Maya and bolt deeper into the store.
Ever since Wyatt found out she had been recognized by the Wilkinson family, he had been desperately trying to corner her.
But he couldn’t even get past the Wilkinson family gates, and Marcia avoided him like the plague.
To run into her by sheer luck today—there was no way Wyatt was letting her go. “Marcia…”
With a sharp eye, he noticed the slight bump of Marcia’s stomach. Wild with euphoria, he grabbed her arm. “Are you pregnant?! This baby is definitely mine…”
Even if it wasn’t, as long as marrying her secured him the position of heir to the Crest family, he would gladly claim it.
Shocked and panicked, Marcia
violently shoved his hand away,
cutting him off with a vicious,
hushed warning. “Are you out of your
mind, Wyatt?! This baby has
absolutely nothing to do with you!
Get the hell out!”
She would rather die than marry this revolting creature!
Maya was equally repulsed by the ugly man who had just lunged at them, her thin brows knitting together in severe displeasure.
She looked about ready to ask Marcia if she truly had zero standards when getting into bed.
He was the kind of hideous you’d have nightmares about with your eyes closed!
Maya was just about to walk away
with a dark scowl and let Marcia handle her own mess. But out of the
corner of her otted Re
she
taking long strides in their direction!
Before she even had time to react, Rex had already bypassed them, stopping right next to Elissa and Tanya. “Out shopping?”
Wearing gold-rimmed glasses, the man looked the picture of scholarly, untouchable elegance.
He directed the question entirely at Elissa, his gaze barely grazing over her.
As if he didn’t know her very well.
As if him moving into the apartment directly across from hers was purely a wild coincidence.
Tanya blinked in surprise, watching Elissa curve her lips into a smile. “Yeah, and just…”
Elissa was the kind of person who served karma on a silver platter the moment the opportunity arose.
She tilted her chin toward Marcia. “…just enjoying the show of your future brother-in- law chasing your sister.”
Rex had assigned his men to tail Marcia and Maya. He had only come down to the mall because his subordinates called to inform him they were in a screaming match with Elissa.
He had been upstairs having coffee, so he figured he’d come down to run interference.
If Marcia lost her mind and somehow hurt Elissa, Rowan would return and murder
him.
But what the hell was a “brother-in-law”?!
He followed Elissa’s gaze and spotted Marcia wrestling with Wyatt Crest. He nearly lost his mind on the spot.
Marcia hadn’t been part of the Wilkinson family for long.
But she had brought him a lifetime’s worth of humiliation.
Taking a deep breath, Rex fought down the overwhelming urge to announce right
there that Marcia wasn’t his biological sister. He forced a polite smile. “I’ll go handle
it.”
Before he even reached them, Wyatt spotted him and immediately began brown- nosing. “Rex…”
Rex was not a man who ever gave a damn about saving face. Hearing the overly familiar greeting, he furrowed his brows. “Who the hell are you?”
“Rex, it’s like this.”
Completely ignoring Marcia’s frantic,
desperate attempts to stop him, Wyatt took two huge steps toward Rex, grinning from ear to ear. “The baby Marcia’s belly is almos certainly mine. I’ve already
discussed it with my family,
absolutely must take responsibility
for her.”
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“So, when would be a good time for my parents to come over and formally ask for
her hand in marriage?”