A Perfect Lie Hides Behind My Billionaire Marriage (reese and hudson)

Chapter 4

The next morning. Hudson, despite his well known aversion to germs, tenderly cleaned and redressed my

wounds.

The home nurse watched with barely concealed envy. I felt nothing but emptiness.

His heart seemed to break when he saw my crying swollen eyes, that familiar look of worry crossing his face.

"Reese, I know you're grieving. Trust me, I am too. But you need to rest - I've lost our boy, I can't lose you too. Let me handle the funeral today."

Handle it? Like you handled murdering your own son?

Swallowing my bitter thoughts, I kept my voice steady.

"No. I need to say goodbye to my baby."

At the funeral home, I spotted them immediately - Valeria and a teenage boy, practically holding court with my mother-in-law Eleanor. They were making her laugh.

At her grandson's funeral.

else wore respectful black. But not Valeria - she'd chosen a skin-tight red

seem to notice or care. She fawned over them like

shield them with

when she saw me. "Oh Eleanor, sweetie, save the

all, she's the one who lost her child. And

to me, her

gone. Why the dramatic puffy eyes? So theatrical - you're embarrassing the Montclair

Val and Leon - they actually care about family. Rushed straight here off their flight to to

this gorgeous jade bracelet. They're real family - unlike

selfish ass."

Eleanor never accepted me.

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precious Hudson. During my years of infertility, she

came, she resented how he always defended me, called him

used to stand up for me, Now? He couldn't take his eyes off Valeria, looking at her like she hung the

me a triumphant smirk before clutching