EPOV

"Why didn't you tell me you have a daughter?" Marcus asked incredulously.

"I wasn't aware of that either." I said.

"Edward... Do you have any idea how serious this is? This fucking changes everything!" He said, "I thought we were finally heading towards winning the case, but here we go! This changes everything!"

I knew that. But the divorce case was the last thing bothering me at the moment! I simply didn't care about it!

"Good luck with all your properties we are trying to save." he said, "We're screwed with these new details."

I sighed.

"Can we please try to keep Bella and Carlie out of this?" I said, "I don't want to drag them into this mess." It was already too ugly!

"Yes, we can try, but not sure how it is going to help," he said, "You know her and her team. They're going to make this worse. I'm afraid they are even going to use your... child's mother to record a statement against you."

"I'm not worried about that," I said.

"What do you mean?" he said.

"She won't say anything against me," I said.

"Oh, how can you be so sure?" he asked.

"I... I know her." I said.

She wasn't going to do that. However mad, angry and disappointed she was with me, I just knew she wouldn't give any statement against me in the court.

But didn't I just give her a threat that I'd drag her to the court for child custody?

Well, she realized that I just said that in anger, right?

Well, considering how little trust she had in me, I doubted if she realized that!

Fuck.

"Ummm... I'm not too sure actually," I said.