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.

chosen a skin-tight red dress. The teenager

to notice or care. She fawned

with umbrellas from the mild

"Oh Eleanor, sweetie, save the

the one who lost her child. And those

her face twisting

puffy eyes? So theatrical - you're embarrassing the

Leon - they actually care about family.

this gorgeous jade bracelet. They're real family

selfish ass."

Eleanor never accepted me.

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wasn't good enough for her precious Hudson. During my years of infertility, she called

how he always defended me, called

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

triumphant