Chapter 576

Because Vivian Grant was pregnant with twins—a boy and a girl—Alexander Brooks spent the following months on edge, like he was constantly walking on a tightrope. He was so nervous all the time, it was like he couldn’t sit still for even a minute. Every little thing made him anxious, worried something might go wrong. By the time Vivian was about to give birth, the man had dropped twenty pounds from stress alone. Even Mr. Brooks Sr. was speechless—he’d never seen someone so worked up over his pregnant wife. When the butler relayed Mr. Brooks Sr.'s comment to Alexander, he just calmly responded, “A man who has an illegitimate child wouldn’t understand how I feel.” The butler didn’t say a word. Yeah… there’s no way he could repeat that to the old man. The happiest one through all this? Evelyn Hayes. She basically stuck by Vivian’s side her whole pregnancy, dragging her son Kevin Sullivan to the Brooks household nearly every time. Oh yeah—he used to be called Kenneth, but now it’s Kevin. Al