Faux Vows, True Desires

Right now, Nathan's in the prime of his life, and Ethan was still young despite his talent. Without Nathan's protection, he might have been secretly killed by the Porter family. Therefore, Madeleine was eager to get married with Nathan, have children as soon as possible, and compete for the family property. As for Lucinda, who had been missing for more than 2 decades, Madeleine had regarded her as dead. As long as the Blue family gave up looking for her, the daughter of the Blue family was really dead.

"It has nothing to do with her. You mustn't blame Madeleine for everything." Nathan said angrily. "Do you really dare to tell me she's a kind woman? You're not scared she'll stir up trouble? She's nothing like my gentle and kindhearted mom."

Everyone from the Blue clan's been backing Madeleine and giving his mom a hard time. Once Madeleine gets her wish and becomes a Blue, they'll all get their comeuppance.

Madeleine's got big plans - she wants to reign over the whole Blue family and have her kids inherit all their riches.

When that happened, even the Blues might get hurt by her.

Madeleine was full of discontent with the Blue family's rules. "Your mom... she's a good woman, but she is mentally ill now."

"Why would she be mentally ill? If you hadn't caused all this trouble, my sister wouldn't be missing, and my mother wouldn't be mentally ill. You blamed my mom for my sister's disappearance and drove her insane. If you weren't my Dad, I'd think you set up my sister's disappearance just to give my mom a nervous breakdown so you could cheat without guilt."

"Watch your mouth!"

Nathan was livid, his face turning a shade of iron. He was about to give his son a smack when he saw the resentment in Ethan's eyes and was taken aback.

The slap didn't end up hitting Ethan in the face. "If I didn't care about your mom, she wouldn't have even a chance to see you grow up. I could have dumped her in the sticks to fend for herself. Stay out of my business with your mom."

Nathan let out a sigh and sat down at his desk.

"I promised your mom that I'd be with her till the end."

Ethan sneered, "I wish you'd just divorce my mom and let her live her days in peace with me."

"You think a divorce will keep your mom safe? You think you can handle everything on your own?"

If he hadn't been secretly beefing up their protection, not just his wife, but even Ethan wouldn't grow up.

Their family was like a black hole.

It looked clear on the surface, but it was full of muck underneath.

not giving up on finding

clueless. He stopped arguing with his dad after being berated, but

anything else to say,

Ethan turned

to stop him, but seemed to think of something and finally

he was alone

had been looking at earlier. Looking at the picture

gently touched the picture, whispering to himself, "Kiddo, I never wanted to give up

was escalating. Many thought Ethan was on borrowed time, that his dad would take him out of the inheritance equation any day now. Although it seemed like he was giving up on finding

didn't, he still had people searching for her in the shadows. He was certain he'd

this. She didn't even know her

was wearing when she found

night, Lucinda tossed and

child were beside her pillow, and the gold necklace

necklace. It was made of

showed that her birth parents were well-off - they could afford to make her a gold necklace even over two

was top-notch too -

the

was a pendant on the necklace

she and the real Lucinda had

and the man next to

Stefan, "I'm sorry I disturbed

the gold necklace from her hand, tucked it back under

told you I'd help you find your birth parents. We'll hear something soon." "Finding people is

arms, Lucinda's voice was soft.

"I know."

been picked up by the Moores and raised as a

would've thought that she was actually

truth, Lucinda was still in

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