It turned out that women in love weren't always the sharpest thinkers. That was true for Lillian Donovan, and even more so for Joyce Lowe.
When Caleb Croft told her to take birth control pills, she took them. When he told her not to tell her parents, she said nothing.
She had been so thoroughly manipulated that she obeyed his every word.
And because of that, tragedy was inevitable.
Caleb Croft was greedier and more ruthless than his father. From the very beginning, he never intended for Joyce Lowe to bear his child. He wasn't playing the same long game as his father, who had some scheme about reclaiming the family line in the third generation. Caleb's plan was to make her permanently unable to have children, so she would willingly raise his child for him, all without ever knowing the truth.
Lillian Donovan: "!!!"
