Lin Jun frowned. "Tell who? Yichen? Mrs. Mo, he is the father. He has a right to—"
"No!" she hissed, tears finally spilling over. "You don't understand! It's better he doesn't know."
"That is exactly why you should tell him," Lin Jun argued logically. "This news will bring him back."
"I don't want him back because of a baby!" she cried softly. "I don't want him to come back out of obligation! I don't want him to protect me because I'm an incubator for his heirs!"
She took a ragged breath. "And Lixuan... if Lixuan finds out... if the world finds out I'm pregnant... I become a target. A bigger target. Yichen will lock me up. He will put me in a cage I can never leave."
"You can never be an incubator to Yichen..."
She looked at Lin Jun, pleading with him.
"Please, Lin Jun. You're his best friend. But you are my friend too, aren't you? Please."
She squeezed his arm.
"Don't tell Yichen about the children. Not yet. Promise me."
