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.

know how much

bed, I assure

Lucinda? To Nate, you will only ever be

Her substitute…

chosen to

pulled back to the present by

was still

taunts kept playing repeatedly

things stood, she couldn’t

reality that Nathaniel didn’t

eyes welled with tears, her hands balling

sorrow and outrage

been docile and submissive to Nathaniel all this time, and had even quit her job so

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

to hide their disdain for her poor background,

didn’t want to bother Nathaniel with

them as trifles, anyway, so she

in a bid to win his

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