Alana quickly looked around to see whether anyone was around. She sighed with relief when she saw
no one was around.
âCalm down, Avery. The only people who know about this are you, me, and the doctor, right?â she
asked.
Avery immediately knew where her mother was going with this. âMom, are you sayingâ¦â
âYou just need to change the test result, and everything will be alright.â
Since Tyler was the head of the family, Alana hoped her daughter would get to marry him instead of
Lincoln. After all, Lincoln was just an adopted son who did not win against Tyler even when he had the
help of Valencia and Orion. This meant he was incompetent and unworthy of Avery.
Averyâs eyes turned red. âBut the truth will come out if Tyler or Old Mister Hart asks for a retest.â
âIf Tyler says the baby is his, no one will say otherwise.â
âWhat do you mean?â
âAs long as Tyler says the baby is his, thenâ¦â Alana smiled lightly. âThen the baby is his.â
âI still donât get what youâre trying to say.â
âBoth Tyler and his grandfather have their own medical team, so they canât be bought off.
Consequently, itâll be impossible to hide the fact that the baby isnât Tylerâs.â
âMom, just what are you trying to say?â
âWhat Iâm trying to say is⦠It doesnât matter whether the baby is Tylerâs, as long as you make him
accept the baby as his.â
Avery looked at her mother as if she was crazy. âHow the hell am I going to do that?â
A man might be willing to forgive cheating, but he would never accept another manâs kid as his ownâ
especially if the man in question was someone prominent and powerful like Tyler.
Alana smiled faintly. âDonât forget we hold the power to end the Hart family right now. We just need to
tamper with the projects, and theyâll be finished!â
She knew it was a lose-lose scenario. The Yeagers would suffer some losses as well, but the Hart
would suffer the most.
âTyler has just become the head of the family, so if something like this happens to the familyâs fortune,
heâll be ousted from his position. Not only will he lose everything he has, but his family will hate him as
well. Do you think heâd risk for something like that to happen?â
All men were born to have an inner drive to reach the top. Tyler was no different. In fact, it could be
said he was more ambitious than the average man. He had been working nonstop over the years to
attain power as the head of the family, so it was clear that the position was very important to him.
The more someone sacrificed to get something, the harder it would be for that person to give it up.
Avery had seen how hard Tyler worked all those years, so she knew it would be nearly impossible for
him to give up what he had.
Alana looked at her daughter. âSince the worst-case scenario has happened, the only way for you to
get yourself out of this is to force him to accept the baby as his and ultimately marry you.â
If given a choice, Avery would not want to have a falling out with Tyler either, but she was very
disappointed in him for choosing Vicky over the baby.
She had lost her last bargaining chip when the DNA test showed the baby was not Tylerâs, so the only
way for her to get him was to do as her mother told her.
âBut Tylerâs going to hate me for doing this!â whined Avery. It was not enough for her to get him; she
wanted him to love her as well. The one thing she most could not stand in the world was for Tyler to
hate her.
Alana glanced at her. âHeâs only going to hate you for a while. You can use your hypnotic control skills
to make him think the kid is his. Heâll surely love you then.â
Averyâs eyes lit up. âYouâre right! Why didnât I think of that? Okay, letâs do that, then! But the most
important thing now is to stop the wedding first!â