My narcissistic mother shoved my pregnant wife in a courthouse and laughed—but she had no idea the ruthless attorney behind me was about to change everything.

smile faltered briefly before returning, tighter than before. “Right to business, then. I respect that.”

He popped the clasps of his briefcase, resting it on a tall cocktail table near the café, and slid a single sheet of paper toward me. A cashier’s check.

Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

“Your mother is a passionate woman, Liam,” Pendelton said,continue reading …