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.

not Valeria - she'd chosen a skin-tight red dress. The teenager matched in a blazing red

notice or care. She fawned over them

staff shield them with

when she saw me. "Oh Eleanor, sweetie, save the umbrella for poor Reese

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

her face

Why the dramatic puffy eyes? So theatrical

they actually care about family. Rushed straight here

gorgeous jade bracelet. They're real family

selfish ass."

Eleanor never accepted me.

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Hudson. During my years of infertility, she

Noah came, she resented how he always defended me,

take his eyes off

triumphant