Chapter 2

Her heart ached at the realization that Nathaniel had simply mistaken her for another woman.

The woman in Nathaniel’s heart was Eleanor Turner.

She was his first love.

Yet because Logan didn’t approve this relationship, she was forced to stay abroad all these years.

But Eleanor had just returned to the country.

And she had wasted no time sending a message to Lucinda, one that was obviously meant to provoke her.

“I’m back.

Soon enough, there will no longer be any place for you in the Roberts family.

You may have married Nate, but he and I grew up together.

Did you really think you could replace me? Know your place and crawl back to the orphanage where you came from.

That’s where you belong.

how

in your bed, I assure you that it

understand, Lucinda? To Nate, you

Her substitute…

Logan had chosen to be Nathaniel’s

present by

was still murmuring

taunts kept playing repeatedly in Lucinda’s

stood, she couldn’t

the reality that Nathaniel

tears, her hands balling into

sorrow and outrage that were coursing

had been docile and submissive to Nathaniel all this time, and had even quit her job so that she could devote herself to

endured abuse and humiliation in the hands

and sister made no effort to hide their disdain for her poor background, and went to great lengths to make her life

want to bother Nathaniel

just dismiss them as trifles, anyway, so she swallowed her

a bid to win his heart, but it looked

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