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.

- she'd chosen a skin-tight red dress. The teenager matched in a blazing red

to notice or care. She fawned over them like they were her actual

shield them with

glittered when she saw me. "Oh Eleanor,

who lost her child.

me, her face

puffy eyes? So theatrical - you're embarrassing the

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

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

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 me

he always defended me, called him

his eyes off Valeria, looking at her like

a triumphant smirk before