Forbidden Passion

Chapter 219 We'll Live as if We Never Had You as Our Daughter

She tilted back her head and closed her eyes with a sigh.

'Theodore, that bewitching man, tempting without even realizing it!'

Vanessa hailed a cab back to the Fitzroy residence, where Mr. and Mrs. Fitzroy were enjoying a leisurely stroll in the yard. Spotting Vanessa's return, Mrs. Fitzroy called out to her. "Vanessa, come here a minute."

Pausing in her tracks, Vanessa turned and walked towards her parents. "Mom, how have you been feeling these past few days? Any trouble with your heart?"

Mrs. Fitzroy nodded slightly and said, "You remember my student Michael, right? He just got back from studying abroad and he asked about you when he heard you're single. He'd like to take you out."

The smile vanished from Vanessa's face as if it had never been there. "Mom, I've told you, no blind dates for me. Theodore is the only one I'll marry."

Mrs. Fitzroy's face turned sour with

need to get upset. Vanessa, is that the way to

reaction in her mother, bit her lip and said, "I refuse to see

Theodore's married now. You really

the Reynolds' family home, Mrs. Reynolds had escorted Vanessa to the restroom, lamenting they couldn't bond through marriage but always defending Phoebe in

at the dinner table, it was clear that old lady Reynolds adored Phoebe too - Phoebe had become an

be between two people, but marriage binds two families. Vanessa was single-minded in trying to break up Theodore and Phoebe, but even putting aside Theodore's wishes, with the Reynolds showing such affection

otherwise, once they divorce, I'll be the legitimate wife. No one will dare gossip in front of

from a slap by Mr. Fitzroy. Her cheek flared with

seemed shocked by his own reaction, but what pained him more was seeing what his

stoop to being a mistress or worse. Where would that leave the Fitzroy family's

Mr. Fitzroy. "If I'm such an embarrassment, you might as well disown me from the Fitzroy family, but I won't give up