Was it out of pity? Pity for the woman he had once known, now reduced to struggling for survival in this pathetic way?
But she was thelast person who deserved his pity! What right did she have to it?
"I'm only offering you this job for Liam's sake," Jonathan Quintero stated, his voice cold and detached. "At least until the court makes its decision, I don't want my son's mother to be living in squalor. I don't want him to suffer too much."
He was saying the words to Lauren, but it felt like he was trying to convince himself, to justify his own unexpected offer.
"He is my son, not yours!" Lauren shot back, her voice like ice. "Mr. Quintero, don't forget what you said to me back then. You told me that even if I were pregnant, you wanted me to terminate it. A woman like me, you said, didn't deserve to have your child. So why are you so desperate to take him away from me now?"
