That night, Lucas slept peacefully for the first time in nearly a week. Rebecca believed it would remain a private mercy. She was wrong.
The next morning, Patricia walked in and froze. “What is happening here,” she demanded.
Benjamin tried to explain, but Patricia saw only humiliation. “You let her feed our son,” she said sharply.
“I just wanted him to live,” Rebecca replied, standing tall despite the tremor in her legs.
Patricia’s eyes narrowed. “And how do we know you are healthy.”
“He is alive because of her,” Benjamin snapped.
Their argument was interrupted by Emma, Benjamin’s eight year old daughter from his first marriage. She stared at Rebecca and smiled. “Did you make him better,” she asked.
“I fed him,” Rebecca answered.
“Why did not my stepmother do that,” the child asked innocently. Silence filled the room.
When Lucas again rejected a bottle and calmed only in Rebecca’s arms, the truth became unavoidable. Patricia left the house that afternoon.
By the next morning, headlines spread across social media. A housekeeper turned wet nurse for a billionaire heir. Rebecca became a symbol to some and a target to others.