Chapter 83

Timothy stepped out and quietly closed the study door behind him.

Jessica's hands shook as she straightened herself up, struggling to regain her composure.

A crushing sense of shame wrapped around her, suffocating and inescapable. They were husband and wife.

She knew all too well that he had reacted just moments before she couldn't pretend otherwise. It was one thing for her to no longer want to share a bed with him, but the way he could immediately regain his composure at the sound of Sheila's voice-that was another matter entirely.

Jessica had never imagined that Timothy, who always seemed so refined and well-mannered, could have been involved in such an illicit affair.

"Timothy, has Jessica come back?" Sheila's voice floated in from outside.

"She's back."

"Dad asked me to bring her a gift. Is she in the master bedroom? I'll give it to her." Jessica stood frozen near the study door, her heart wound tight as a spring.

Sheila's father-that made him Timothy's grandfather.

Jessica couldn't make sense of it. In all their seven years of marriage, Timothy had never once introduced her to anyone from his mother's side of the family. In fact, the entire Lawson family seemed to avoid the topic altogether.

existed. Or perhaps they just looked down on her, a woman with no real voice in the family. But Henry-Henry was Timothy's

from Timothy's mother's family had ever

was impossible to

explanation Jessica could think of was the one she least wanted to accept: it had something

She forced herself not to dwell on it.

gets it. You and

sleep with Miss

the boy's hair. "Of course you

and jumped with excitement. "Miss Sheila, that's great! I get

and chatter echoed through the

he was a boy, Timothy had insisted early on that he have his own room. When Timothy

he was away, Henry would sneak into her room, curling up beside her, insisting

mom.

he stuck to Sheila. He was so happy to sleep

gave a bitter, fleeting

when the sound of footsteps upstairs finally faded away, she slipped quietly

room was empty.

master bedroom. It,

Timothy earlier,

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