Chapter 78

So there was someone, just not officially. The thought sent Ludwig's gossip instincts straight into overdrive. "Mike, if she's not the wife and not a girlfriend either, she must be…" He had almost blurted out "sleeping partner". If this were Cooper, he would have said it without a second thought. After all, Cooper was always that crude. However, when it came to Michael, Ludwig didn't dare pull the thread. After all, Michael was the most self-disciplined among them. Asking something like that would be downright disrespectful. The question caught Michael off guard. Suddenly, he remembered Amelia asking him something similar in the car earlier, whether she was nothing more than a tool to bear his children in his eyes. Honestly, he had never thought of this question. All he knew was he needed a child, or rather, his family needed one, and Amelia happened to be pregnant. So he accepted it, almost as a matter of course. To say that he saw her as nothing more than a means to bear a c