If Esther didn’t return on time, the children would get worried.

Bradley scoffed. “Esther, did you ever consider Felix when you agreed to marry Chadwick?”

Esther’s smile turned bitter, her voice distant. “If it weren’t for you, would I have been forced to marry him?”

Bradley snorted. “So?”

“If it weren’t for me, you’d be dead now!” she cried.

Why couldn’t Bradley see that her actions were for his sake? She just hoped he would survive.

“Well, then I should thank you for putting this noose around my neck personally!” he quipped.

Esther’s heart turned to ashes as she thought of how meticulously Bradley had treated Mandy and realized she had given birth to his children yet received none of his affection.

so she closed her eyes

this was

ignore him, Bradley noticed her pride and instructed his servant,

“Yes, Mr. Warner.”

of food filled the

loudly at the wrong time. She quickly covered it and mentally reassured herself, ‘I’m not

hungry. She wouldn’t beg Bradley, the

Esther silently recalled the books

she had learned,

into

his lunch elegantly, he walked to the crystal coffin. Looking down at Esther, who appeared as peaceful as Sleeping Beauty, he felt inexplicably

tall, burly men

carefully crafted crystal coffin. His presence cast a shadow over Esther, like a dark

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