Mr. CEO's Substitute Bride

In the blink of an eye, another month passed, and Victoria Thornton’s belly had already shown a noticeable bulge, while Violet Zimmerman was still not showing any signs.

Every night, Daxton Lancaster would persistently give it his all, but the results were almost the same each night—either no reaction at all, or just a fleeting moment.

From start to finish, he never had any secretions.

Without sending his secretions into Violet Zimmerman’s body, she couldn’t conceive—this fact Daxton Lancaster understood.

After the last unpleasant incident, Eva Hayes no longer dared to bring up "a hen that doesn’t lay eggs," though her words frequently carried obvious sarcasm.

She’d say how a wife shouldn’t be chosen just for a pretty face, one must also consider the body; her daughter-in-law Victoria Thornton had wide hips and broad bones and looked so fertile!

Lorelei Howard was well aware that Eva Hayes was mocking her daughter-in-law, who was a pretty face but actually just a useless decoration.

On the weekend, after dinner together, Lorelei Howard called her son Daxton Lancaster to her place. In the living room, Daxton sat opposite his parents.

Some matters were inconvenient for the father to bring up, so only Lorelei Howard, the mother, could speak.

"Daxton, it’s been over two months, and Violet still shows no signs. Could it be that she can’t have children?"

Lorelei Howard tentatively asked. If it weren’t for Eva Hayes deliberately spreading rumors in front of her daily, she wouldn’t have thought this way about not conceiving after two months of marriage.

Daxton Lancaster discreetly frowned and said with a smile, "Mom, don’t overthink it."

"How can it be overthinking?" Lorelei Howard unhappily frowned, leaned closer to her son, and said, "Someday, when you have time, take Violet to the hospital for a checkup to see what the issue is!"

Faced with his mother’s resoluteness, Daxton Lancaster agreed with a smile, "Got it, Mom."

After returning from his mother’s place, Violet Zimmerman was laying out the bedsheet while casually asking.

"Daxton, what did Mom call you over for?" Violet thought about how her mother-in-law called her son over after dinner but didn’t invite her, the daughter-in-law. She had a good idea why without asking.

Watching her cousin-in-law Victoria Thornton’s stomach already showing, while she...

Daxton Lancaster leaned back on the sofa and let out a sigh, "Just the usual stuff!"

Violet Zimmerman...

Paused while laying out the bedsheet, stopped for a few seconds, then continued smoothing out the sheet.

"Daxton, why don’t we adopt a child instead?"

"No way!"

Almost as soon as Violet Zimmerman finished speaking, Daxton Lancaster rejected her, his tone serious and his eyes showing displeasure. Violet Zimmerman turned her head, still smoothing out the bedsheet.

Daxton Lancaster sternly said, "My descendants will inherit the Lancaster Family; how can I leave our Lancaster legacy to an outsider’s child!"

Violet Zimmerman...

Stood up and walked over, sat down beside Daxton Lancaster, held his arm patiently, and said, "But we can’t have children, Daxton, you know that."

The man’s phoenix eyes turned towards her, coldly asking, "Who said we can’t?"

Hearing Daxton Lancaster say that, Violet Zimmerman’s heart immediately filled with hope.

"Daxton, we can have our own child?"

Facing Violet Zimmerman’s hopeful eyes, Daxton Lancaster raised his hand, gently stroking her face with his fingertip, his gaze becoming distant.

"Our own child, probably not in this lifetime, but..."

Violet Zimmerman’s heart tightened, instinctively asking, "But what?"

Daxton Lancaster raised his phoenix eyes, met Violet Zimmerman’s gaze, and said word by word, "We can borrow someone else’s seed to have a child."