Chapter 346
What right did she have to take the child away?
“The baby is also mine, Seth. Don‘t you think you‘re being too selfish? Oh, never mind. You‘ll never understand anyway.”
All of a sudden, Tasha got worked up. Her dilated pupils reflected the movement in the TV.
“If the child lives with you, it‘ll be impossible for it to ever be happy. I can only imagine how badly you‘ll treat our child. The child will be ruined, or worse–it‘ll become another soulless machine, just like its father.”
Tasha squeezed her eyes shut and shuddered.
If that was the child‘s fate, she‘d rather not bring it into this world.
Seth reached into his pocket for his lighter and cigarette case.
“Ruined? The Klein family will provide nothing but the best for the child. That‘s better than the child living with you, a divorced woman.”
Tasha was speechless. She knew beforehand that it would be useless to reason with such an unreasonable person. She put the plate of fruit down and stood up to go upstairs.
“Either the child stays with me or no divorce. It‘s as simple as that.”
Seth grabbed Tasha’s wrist. His tone was domineering and unusually sharp.
“The child will stay with the Klein family. There is no room for discussion. If you don‘t agree to the divorce, I actually have plenty of ways to make you do it.”
“What–what do you want?”
Frightened by the crazed look in his eye, Tasha‘s face turned pale.
Noticing that she had gone pale, Seth turned to the servant and barked, “Take Mrs. Klein back to her room and ask the doctor to check on her!”
As soon as he finished speaking, he released Tasha, turned around, and left the villa.
The servant helped Tasha to her room.
The doctor rushed in to examine her body, only to find that she was fine. She just needed to lie down and have some rest.
After the doctor left, the servant brought a bowl of tonic soup for Tasha.
Tasha drank it up and sank into bed in a daze.
The horrible look in Seth‘s eyes just now kept resurfacing in her mind.
She closed her eyes and patted her chest to calm her racing heart. It took a long time before she finally fell into a restless sleep.
The following morning, Tasha planned to pack up her things and move out.
Since Seth didn‘t want to leave the child to her, she had to come up with another solution.
Just as she brought her packed luggage to the gate of the villa, she was stopped by two bodyguards “Mrs. Klein, please stay in the house.
Mr. Klein said that you can‘t go anywhere before you agree to let the child be raised by the Klein family.”
The bodyguards directly pushed Tasha and her luggage back into the villa.
Tasha was so angry that she felt suffocated.
Upon looking around the living room, she found that there were more surveillance cameras installed. She immediately understood what was going on. She pointed at a camera and shouted hysterically, “Seth, you‘re such an inhuman bastard! How dare you imprison me?”
She couldn‘t believe that Seth not only sent people to watch over her but also installed surveillance cameras to monitor her every move at any time.
Tasha couldn‘t let things go on like this. She needed to talk to Seth again, but he had never come back again since that night when she told him she wanted to raise the baby alone, nor could she contact him however she tried.
“Can you help me reach Seth?”
Tasha turned to the servants, doctor, and nutritionist in the villa angrily. She felt like a prisoner, and she was in desperate need of help. But everyone ignored her request since they didn‘t dare to go against Seth‘s orders.
After all, their only job was to make sure that she was alive and the baby was safe.
Their indifference made Tasha feel more desperate.
She knew that this was what Seth meant when he said he had other ways to force her to give in.
This villa was now her prison.
As soon as she delivered the child, he‘d take the child away from her.
And then he would force her to sign the divorce paper and drive her out of the Klein family.
As the days went by, Tasha‘s mental health gradually collapsed. She had to get out of here at all costs. She hated that Seth dealt with the problem in such a violent way.
Every day, the news kept broadcasting photos of Seth and that other woman coming in and out of a hotel.
Every time Tasha saw these photos, she‘d grit her teeth in hatred.
What the hell did Seth think of her? A baby machine that he could lock up at home to give birth to his child? Tasha‘s affection for Seth was instantly wiped out and replaced with seething hatred.
She was the daughter of the Javis family! Even if their glory days were over, she had never been treated like this. She couldn‘t just sit still and wait for her doom. She had to get out of here, for the sake of her child.
Tasha climbed out of bed. Seth had asked someone to seal the windows with iron wire.
As if that wasn‘t enough, over half a dozen bodyguards were on patrol outside the villa.
Looking at all the men outside, she felt helpless.
She was the weaker party now, and she knew that the Javis family could not compete with the Klein family.
After the stock market turmoil a few years ago, the Javis family had slowly plunged into a decline.
Otherwise, Seth would never have dared to bully her like this.
Seth was certain that the Javis family wouldn‘t want to fight against him––nor would they be able to, so he didn‘t hold back when pushing Tasha to the wall.
Tasha bit her lip and held her belly, feeling completely and utterly powerless.
With a heavy heart, she headed downstairs to the living room. She was still pregnant.
No matter how hopeless her situation was, she had to cheer up.
The baby needed her.
The news was broadcasting financial news, telling the legendary story of the Larson Group.
It became one of the leading companies in both Barnes and Seacisco within only a few years.
Tasha pursed her lips.
She remembered that the reason why Seth had gone back to Seacisco was because of the war between the Klein family and the Larson Group.
Under the attack of the Larson Group, the Klein family‘s stock price had fallen sharply.
