Grady turned to Winnie then, and Harper was almost afraid to hear what he was going to say. For sure he'd tell her that he agreed with her, that she was lazy and should have signed off on the child. But there wasn't any way that she was going to do either of those things. It wasn't her fucking fault she was pregnant, damn it.
"You think that just because you wanted this baby, and went to all the effort to not only set your sister up but to do this against her will, that it's fine for you to charge her? Not to mention the fact that you held her against her will, raped her to impregnate her with your husband's child, as well as harassed her from the moment you decided that you no longer wanted to deal with it. That's all okay with you?" Winnie said of course. "I see. Well, I guess it really sucks to be you. You're not going to get a thin dime from either of us. The baby will be raised as my son if Harper will allow it, and you should back your skinny ass out of my space before I have you arrested for being a fucking cunt."
Harper moved into the room just as her sister slapped Grady. When she drew back again, to no doubt hit him once more, Harper grabbed her arm and twisted it behind her. The screams that came from her sister were not very lady like.
"Let me go, or so help me, Harper, I will take you for everything that you have. Not that you have anything that I want but that kid gone, but I'll kill it in front of you if you don't fucking let me go." Harper only laughed. "You're going to jail for this. See if you don't. And once you're there, I'm going to take that baby from you even if I have to cut it from you myself. Let me go right now."
Harper looked at Grady. "What you said to her, is that really what you want? To raise my child as your own?" He said it was. "You don't know me. Nothing about me. For all you know, what she's saying could be true."
"Is it?" She shook her head at him. "I didn't think so. I want to care for you. Help you raise your son the best way we can. And someday, if you'll allow it, I'll marry you and give you both my name."
"What if you married me today?" He said he could arrange that. "You'd do that. Just like that, marry me."
"Yes. Today if we can-"
"You're not going to do any such thing. Harper, I swear to you, this is not going to end well for you. I just want you to pay what you owe me and then give the baby up. No one will ever know what sort of mistake you made in this."
"What sort of mistake do you think I made, Winnie? Trusting you? I didn't. And the fact that you had me taken from my own home by knocking me out wasn't bad enough. You then had me drugged and thrown in with a bunch of people I didn't know, to be impregnated by your husband's sperm. What about Scott and his wife? You had them killed too, didn't you, when they wouldn't tell you where I'd gone after you decided that you no longer wanted this child? You actually hired a guy to go hunting, and he killed them for you. Oh, I have no proof that you did it, but I know it was you." Harper wiped furiously at the tears that fell. "I think that goes a long way in saying just how much of a bitch you really are. What were you thinking? I told you no, that I didn't want to carry your child for you."
"I wanted this, and you were going to help me like I said from the start. You are such a cunt, Harper. I knew that all along, but the fact that you'd not help me out when I told you I needed you just goes to show what a selfish bitch you are. And so what? I've had a change of heart now, and you're still not doing as you're told. All you had to do was get rid of it. And when that didn't happen, I had to go to extreme lengths to get you to abort. Do you have any idea how much money I'm out because of what you've done to me? And even if I knew what you're talking about with those people, as you said, you have no proof." Harper looked at Grady. "Let me go and we'll settle this right now, Harper. I'm sick of messing with you."
The word abort hung in the air around her. Her sister had admitted to trying to make her miscarry her child. Harper felt the baby move, kicking under her hand, and she knew as surely as she was standing here that her sister was insane. Selfish and insane. The dragon, in a soft kind voice, told her that she and her son were safe now. But she wanted answers.
"Did you try to have me hurt? Did you actually try and have me lose this baby?" Her sister said nothing. Harper jerked her arm up tighter and was glad when she screamed. "I asked you a fucking question. Did you try and have me lose this baby?"