"Oh... So you married Ruby for the Goulds' assets."

"It wasn't as if Gary got them legitimately." He scoffed and said, "Here, the rule of the game is to eat or be eaten."

"Do you genuinely like this kind of life, Elliot?" She hated the life he had just described to her, and she wanted him to realize what a horrible life it was. "Now that Christopher is dead, everything Gary has will be yours in the future as long as you spend a good life with Ruby."

"Gary doesn't share that view," he said. "He is forcing me to have a child with Ruby so that he can leave everything to that child. That child must take the Gould surname."

Avery could not help but laugh. "But our children take my surname."

"The situation is different. One is voluntary while the other is forced."

"Will you be able to give up your current plans for the sake of me and our children?" She thought about the matter for a while, before she said, "We can have all the money we want, but we'll never be able to spend all of it d