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 much he loves

I assure you that it will be

understand, Lucinda? To Nate, you will only ever be my

Her substitute…

chosen to be Nathaniel’s wife! She was

pulled back to the present by the sound of

still murmuring another

playing repeatedly in

stood, she

that Nathaniel

tears, her

from the sorrow and outrage that were coursing through

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

abuse and humiliation in the hands of her husband’s snobbish and condescending

for her poor background, and went to great lengths to make her life

want to bother Nathaniel

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

bid to win his heart,

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