Fine. If that's how it was going to be, they could deal with Tim Harding's mountain of debt on their own.
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My voice came out dry and cracked. "You're... you're carrying Alex Swanson's child? Since when?"
Adeline turned her head and looked at me with open contempt. "Ronald Mason, so what if I am? What are you going to do about it?"
"Don't bother trying to make me stay. I don't want a deadbeat husband who racks up debts and doesn't have the guts to own up to them."
I stood frozen. Not a single word came out.
Peggy saw me standing there like a statue and kicked me. "Did you hear her? Tomorrow. County clerk's office. Divorce."
She turned to Adeline with a sly grin. "Good thing you took birth control every time before sleeping with this loser."
"Otherwise he'd use a kid to chain you down and make you help pay off his debts. I was planning to let him raise the baby, but now there's clearly no need."
I couldn't believe what I was hearing. "Every time... you took the pill beforehand?"
Three years of marriage, and Adeline had never gotten pregnant.