It was 1:30 in the morning. The outside was pitch black, and the room was so eerily quiet that it felt haunted. My phone and email were flooded with messages about the company's stock plummeting like crazy… At this moment, I was about to explode. Zachary proposing? And in this way?

"I'm afraid Tyler will use the child as leverage. Compared to him, I'm at a clear disadvantage. And you—you're especially attached to children. That scares me. So, I thought we should get the ...