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

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Reese gazed up at Lukas in disbelief, her expression deeply moved. "Lukas, I..."

She wanted to apologize, to express gratitude, but her words eluded her for a moment.

After a brief silence, she blurted out a somewhat muddled question, "Didn't Ricardo say the letter was a fake?"

Immediately, Reese felt the urge to strangle herself for asking such a bewildering question. How could she stumble over her words like this?

Now she finally comprehended why Lukas had shown no curiosity when the maid mentioned Alexa using the letter to threaten her.

He had already been made aware of it.

Lukas looked at her with a mocking glint, "By this point, are you suggesting that I threatened Ricardo to tell you that?"

Reese bit her lip, "Mr. Strakovski, I'm sorry. Thank you."

Lukas discerned the implications of her words.

"Sorry" acknowledged her misunderstanding, and "thank you" appreciated him for retrieving her letter back.

He huffed disdainfully, "You don't have to say anything. Originally, I had doubts about giving you the letter. Now, knowing how conniving you are, if I had received the letter initially, I would've handed it over and asked you to get out of my sight."

Reese accepted the letter from Lukas without examining it.

She looked at Lukas with a conflicted expression and a tinge of guilt in her tone, "Mr. Strakovski, I wasn't aware you helped arrange Gerald and Alexa's marriage for this reason. I'm sorry."

as he responded, "No

her lip, "Anyway,

and strode towards the floor-to-ceiling window, no longer focusing

the envelope, turned around and left, heading

and finally opened the letter that had preoccupied her

why Lukas had acquired the letter but chose to keep its

the way, he was only

first time. Although his face appeared distant

about the letter. However, upon reading its contents, the reality behind the words struck

depth of Lukas's actions deeply

truth Reese had never known-she was not the biological daughter of her

treatment of her since her mother's passing. She realized that it stemmed

during Gemma's pregnancy, a heart-wrenching betrayal unfolded. Her husband had betrayed her trust and fathered a child with another woman. This child, born just two months after her

time to give birth to the child came, she find it difficult to deliver. And

The child died on the operating table. Consumed by grief, Gemma went hysterical and found

that very rooftop that she encountered

destiny, a sign from the heavens that this child was

clutches of her tragic fate. She carried the child downstairs with all her

moved by Gemma's desperate circumstances. Giving birth without a husband, and her child dying in the

presence became the thread that held

that her time on Earth was limited. Gemma chose to write a letter for her to reveal the truth to Reese about her origins and leave her the decision of

Gemma could never have anticipated that her letter, written after her passing, would eventually find

opening it, he uncovered Reese's true story. This revelation set the stage for Reese's tumultuous

the letter, she sat in the room