My Husband Is a Brother-in-Law Supporter

After I got pregnant, Reese Flynn, my husband's younger brother, racked up a million dollars in gambling debts to loan sharks.

My motherinlaw, Kaylee Larsen, set her sights on my parent's house, pressuring me to sell it and pay off Reese's debt.

I refused. "That's the last thing my parents left me."

My inlaws and Reese charged at me, hitting and kicking me.

Lizeth Flynn, my sisterinlaw, stood there with her hands on her hips, threatening, "You're the only one left in your family. If you dare defy us, we'll kill you!"

Meanwhile, my husband Cedric Flynn mocked me from the side, "If you don't help my brother, then you don't see us as family."

I laughed, "Alright, go ahead and take the house if you've got the nerve to."

I was two months pregnant, and today my stomach was feeling off. I was just about to ask my boss for some time off to go to the hospital.

Then my husband called.

"Violet, my brother's in trouble. Come home right away."

I frowned, asking, "What happened? Honey, my stomach feels tight and uncomfortable. Could you come with me to the hospital first?"

On the phone, my husband replied impatiently, "It's a minor issue. No need to check it out. My brother's situation is serious. I'll come pick you up now. Just wait for me downstairs your company."

Then he hung up.

I pushed through the discomfort and went home with my husband.

The moment I walked in.

I saw a crowd of relatives gathered in our living room.

Kaylee and Lizeth were sobbing on the couch, while my fatherinlaw Glenn Flynn sat off to the side, sighing heavily.

Reese knelt in front of Kaylee, slapping himself repeatedly.

I walked over and asked, "What's going on?"

Kaylee shot me an angry look. "What's going on? You tell me! Reese is in deep trouble, and you, as his sisterinlaw, were the last to show up, acting like it's none of your business."

Before we got married, Kaylee used to be all smiles and kindness toward me. But after the wedding, she changed, scolding me frequently. I always chalked it up to her age and didn't let it bother me.

I looked at my husband. "Cedric, tell me."

My husband pursed his lips, looking a little down. "My brother got hooked on some shady online gambling and lost over a million dollars. He owes it all to loan sharks, and now they've come to collect. If he doesn't pay, they'll kill him."

I got angry right away, "Six months ago, he fell for a scam and lost 300 thousand dollars, and your parents barely managed to bail him out. How is he gambling again?"

Reese had always been trouble, constantly getting into messes that the family had to clean up.

When that scam happened six months ago, I wasn't even married to Cedric yet. I had already warned my husband then that they couldn't keep enabling Reese, but he wouldn't listen.

I never imagined Reese would make an even bigger mess this time.

The last time, his parents had to empty their life savings to cover that 300 thousand dollars. Now he owed one million dollars. How were they going to pay that?

I looked sympathetically at Kaylee, saying, "Kaylee, if worse comes to worst, just let Reese hide from them for a while. If the loan sharks can't find him, maybe they'll just let him go. Then Reese can get a job somewhere, start earning, and gradually pay it back. It might not be easy, but it's doable."

I thought this was the best solution. Reese was still young, and he was skilled at welding. I had heard he could make over 10 thousand dollars a month. With that kind of income, he could pay off the debt in seven or eight years.

But as soon as Kaylee heard this, she blew up, pointing her finger at me and yelling.

"Violet Benson, you're so heartless! You want my son to go into hiding? Living on the run? Is that even a life?"

Lizeth immediately stood up. "Lizeth, you make it sound easy. Paying it off slowly? That's loan shark debt! The interest compounds fast. If he doesn't pay it back right away, in a few years, it'll be millions of dollars! And my brother's never left home and never had to rough it. How can we let him go off to some strange place? We'd never be at ease!"

The way they were both yelling at me, you'd think I was the one who had gambled and gotten into debt, not Reese.

I threw up my hands. "Well then, what's your solution?"

It was like they'd been waiting for me to ask. Everyone's eyes suddenly lit up and they all stared at me like a pack of wolves.

I turned to my husband, and he was giving me the same look.

My heart sank.

In truth, it wasn't just Kaylee who had changed after I married into the family. My husband had too, but I'd been too easygoing to sweat the small stuff.

Kaylee immediately softened her tone, walking over with a smile and patting my shoulder. "Violet, you've got that house, don't you? It's worth a little over a million dollars. If you sell it, it'll be just enough to pay off the debt. We're family, and when there's trouble, we'll help each other, right?"

She said it all in one breath as if it were the most natural thing in the world.

I refused immediately.

"That house is the only thing my parents left me, and I'm not selling it. Besides, where would Cedric and I live if I sold it? I'm pregnant, and the baby's due in just a few months! You can't expect us to rent, can you?"

Cedric's parents hadn't even bothered to help us with a house when we got married. I married Cedric because he was honest and faithful, not the kind to fool around, so I didn't mind the lack of a house.

We'd been living in my parent's house ever since.

However, who could've known that not only would my inlaws be so ungrateful, but they would now want to use my family's house to patch up the mess Reese had made?

How shameless!

"Without the house, you can always earn money to buy another one later. But if Reese gets killed by the loan sharks, this family will fall apart!" Kaylee glared at me like I was her worst enemy.

Lizeth sneered, "You're the only child to your parents. You wouldn't understand the bond between siblings. What's a house compared to my brother's life? If you don't save him, I'll never forgive you!"

Both Kaylee and Lizeth were yelling at me with harsh words.

I was beyond shocked. So this was their true nature all along.

I was such a fool to marry into such a despicable family.

My husband stood silently to the side, acting like none of this concerned him.

I turned to him, asking, "What about you? What do you think?"

I was already completely disillusioned with my inlaws, but that didn't matter. After all, Cedric was the one I married.

As long as my husband was a real man who could stand up for his family and protect me and our baby, I could deal with the rest.

To my surprise...

Cedric glanced at me, bit his lip, and made up his mind. "Before I went to pick you up from work, I already discussed it with the family. We all agreed to sell your house and help my brother."

Damn it, Cedric had secretly been sending his worthless brother a few hundred dollars here and there as pocket money, and I had turned a blind eye to it.

I thought it was just brotherly affection.

Who would have guessed that he would be one of those people who kept enabling their siblings?

His salary wasn't enough to support his brother, so now he wanted to sell my house.

I completely misjudged Cedric. On the surface, he seemed honest, but he was actually a wolf in disguise that devoured without leaving a trace.

No wonder he had been so quiet earlier, letting his mother and sister pressure me.

Seeing my face getting gloomier, Cedric said humbly.

"I know when you married me, I didn't have a house or a car. It hasn't been easy for you. But Reese is my brother, and I can't just watch him be pushed to death by loan sharks.

"As long as we work together, we can buy another house after we make some money. And if you sell the house to help my brother, my family will be grateful to you. We'll treat you like one of our own from now on."

Today, they showed me the depths of their shamelessness.

So, after I married him and carried his child, he still never saw me as family.

Kaylee, full of concern for her son, came over and gently stroked his face.

"Why are you begging her? She's pregnant and her parents are dead. She has no backup. Her house is your house. If she won't sell the house, you can teach her a good lesson."

As she spoke, Kaylee shot me a vicious glare.

Lizeth added fuel to the fire. "When we agreed to let you marry her, it was because she was easy to control, with no parents and no one to back her up. You're a man. What are you afraid of? She's just a weak and pregnant woman!"

Well then...

This whole family had pushed me too far.

I stood with my hands on my hips and shouted, "Listen to yourselves. Are you even human? That house is my premarital property. It has nothing to do with the Flynn family!

"Reese's scam last time drained your family's savings, and now you want to sell my house because of his gambling? Let me tell you. Once a gambler, always a gambler. Your family is already ruined!"

I had torn it all apart. I wasn't staying in this family any longer, and I didn't want anything to do with my heartless husband.

My inlaws and Lizeth were seething with rage.

Cedric kept his head down, silent.

At that moment, Reese, who had been kneeling, suddenly jumped up and punched me to the ground.

"You bitch! Not to sell the house? How dare you! You married into this family, so your house is now ours."

I wasn't one to back down either. I swung my hand and scratched Reese's face.

My sharp nails left long, bloody streaks across his cheek.

My inlaws got furious about my actions.

They rushed over, kicking and punching me without any care for the baby I was carrying.

Lizeth stood by with her arms crossed, smirking like she was enjoying the show.

And my husband, the father of the child in my belly, just stood there, head down, saying nothing.

Finally, I cried out, "My belly hurts!"

Only then did Cedric snap out of it. He grabbed his parents and brother, pulling them off me.

"Stop it. What are you doing? Let's talk about it peacefully. Violet is pregnant with my child!"

Looking at my bruised and battered body, Cedric seemed to feel a flicker of guilt.

Reese shrugged it off. "Relax, I only hit her head but didn't touch her belly."

My inlaws chimed in, "We just pinched her arms and legs and didn't even go near her belly. The baby's fine."

Lizeth stepped up. "Cedric, don't blame Reese or our parents. It's your wife's fault for being so disrespectful to her inlaws. She deserved a beating! Don't spoil her, or you'll regret it later."

After that, she looked at me smugly.

Once they finished talking, whatever guilt Cedric had felt disappeared.

I lay on the floor lonely.

Then I looked up at them.

At that moment, I knew I couldn't stay in this family. They would stop at nothing to force me to sell the house.

I couldn't even guarantee my safety.

I had to get out of there immediately.

I grabbed Cedric's hand. "Honey, my belly hurts. Please take me to the hospital."

Once I was there, I would find a way to escape.

Just when Cedric was about to agree, Kaylee shouted.

"She's not going anywhere until she agrees to sell the house."

I quickly gave in. "Kaylee, I'll agree to sell the house, but I'm in too much pain right now. Please let Cedric take me to the hospital first. You can take pictures of the house and send them to an agent in the meantime and get it listed."

Everyone's faces relaxed when they saw me finally give in.

Even Lizeth, who had just been eager to see me beaten to death, came over to help me up. "Lizeth, if only you'd figured this out sooner."

Cedric took me to the hospital.

My inlaws, afraid I would run, sent pictures of the house to the real estate agent and then rushed over to the hospital as well.

The female doctor saw my tearstreaked face and asked with concern, "What happened to you?"

I glanced at Cedric fearfully, and then shook my head, replying, "Nothing. I just have some bellyache."

The doctor thought for a moment before saying, "Family members, please wait outside for a moment. Let me take her inside for an exam."

She then got up and led me into a small side room.

Once my husband and his family were outside, I showed her the bruises on my arms where my inlaws had pinched me.

They hadn't held back. The bruises were dark and covered large patches of my arms.

"What happened to you?"

The doctor's eyes widened in shock and disbelief, far more than my shameless husband had ever shown me.

I choked back tears and whispered, "Doctor, please call the police for me. If I go back with them, they'll beat me to death."

As I spoke, I lifted my bangs, revealing a large bump on my forehead, which was caused by Reese, that brute.

Outraged, the doctor immediately picked up her phone and called the police.

In less than five minutes, the police arrived. About seven or eight officers showed up and immediately took control of Cedric and the others.

Reese, with his face pressed to the ground, pleaded, "Sir, just because I owe some loan sharks doesn't mean I should be arrested, right?"

My inlaws were wailing even louder, "You are just arresting people randomly! We didn't break the law!"

Lizeth was the most outrageous. She put on a full display of her street fighting tactics, rolling around on the ground.

"There's no justice! The police are arresting people for no reason! The world's falling apart! I'll take this to court! I'll demand justice!"

Cedric, trembling, didn't even get the chance to say anything.

I walked out of the room, tears streaming down my face, and pointed at my inlaws. "Sir, it was them who hit me! I'll sue them all!"

I rolled up my sleeves and lifted my bangs again, revealing my injuries to everyone.

By now, a crowd of onlookers had gathered outside, drawn by the spectacle. Among them were even a few pregnant women there for their checkups.

When they saw my bruises, they were full of sympathy and soon started cursing and condemning the Flynn family.

"Shameless! Hitting a pregnant woman? Are they even human?"

"They're worse than animals! This woman is carrying a child, and they even beat her!"

"Domestic violence against a pregnant woman? They should rot in prison for that."

The shouts and curses grew louder and louder. Even though Kaylee and Lizeth kept trying to argue, the crowd's voice drowned them out.

Seeing the situation get more chaotic, the police took the Flynn family straight to the police station.