Concerned about potential trouble, Hilda stood and announced, ““I’ll go cook.

You two chat.”

Quickly, Lucinda caught Hilda by the arm and coaxed her back to her seat.

“Let them handle the kitchen tonight, Hilda.

Stay here with me.”

“How can I let our guests do the cooking? That’s not right.”

“They hardly see themselves as guests.

They know what they’re doing.

Don’t fret,” Lucinda reassured her.

Leaning close, she whispered into Hilda’s ear, “He’s just another man claiming to be my husband.

Keep an eye on him for me, will you?”

At that moment, Nathan was at a loss for words.

He wasn’t deaf.

From such a close distance, he could hear their hushed conversation clearly.

Whispering was pointless.

embarrassment, Hilda stole several glances at Nathan before settling back into her seat with an awkward

gaze shifted back to

continued to watch him a moment

as Nathan lifted his head, Lucinda quickly averted her

challenged, “You claim to

Can you prove it?”

Nathan retrieved

through it, eventually pulling

her a

the photo, her

“Photos can be manipulated.

preparing something like this would have been easy,”

breath, Nathan responded with a wry

is the older brother

inheritance issues of the Payne and Simmons families, they

one

his voice softening, “A lot happened during your

a fatal accident falling

were doubts about your lineage with the

was immense, and it left you on edge, quick

slowly rolled up his left

A ‘s L I B R A R

fist tightly, causing

rotated his arm to reveal faint tooth marks etched into

eyelashes fluttered rapidly as he spoke, his

from eating those

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