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.

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

She fawned over them like they

staff shield them with umbrellas

me. "Oh Eleanor,

one who lost her child. And

me, her

puffy eyes? So theatrical - you're embarrassing the

they actually care about family. Rushed straight here

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

selfish ass."

Eleanor never accepted me.

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enough for her precious Hudson. During my years of infertility, she

Noah came, she resented how he

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

a triumphant smirk before