Chapter 1484 Crazy Pleasures In The Dark:>Ep22
- She tried a "save the planet" arguments, but he said that was for common people; his family would provide leaders for the middle class masses, so 5 sons was the minimum. In fact his family expected him and his brothers to provide plenty of heirs to grow their wealth by inheritance.
- I had to ask. "Making up for lost children? That is a strange phrase to use."
- She agreed with me. "Yeah, that bothered me too. In took three years but I broke the code. Jorge has 8 brothers but no living sisters or nieces. His father had 6 brothers but no sisters. I realized then that the family used abortion for gender selection, and they chose to have no girls. The men married wealthy docile women to acquire the wife's family wealth. They were aggressive, sometimes using plots and rumors to discredit their wives' bothers and brothers-in-law to increase the share their wife got. But I did not know all the facts until our third year. Well, he was wrong too, he thought I had direct access to the Hightower wealth, but that is held in trust."