Unrequited Love Doesn’t End With Marriage - Chapter 2

Coerced agreement isn’t agreement. Maybe if he offered an alternative like: if you don’t accept I’ll give you a quiet nest egg and you can leave my employment.
He’s in charge of her wages and he knows her debts. He’s either knowingly taking advantage of it at best or… well at worst maybe there’s a reason a full time job plus overtime isn’t enough to support a small family of three (obviously that’s not it but still).