Conrad stopped speaking, but I already had a hunch, "So, her condition is to be Mrs. Wagner?"

As I finished, Conrad looked up at me, seemingly shocked by my insight.

"You seem to know her quite well," he mocked after a pause.

His words were not hurtful, but they were dripping with irony.

To think she was the other woman, the one who stole my man, and here he was suggesting that I'd somehow schemed against her.

"You're overthinking it. I know what she's up to, not because I understand her, but because her actions make it clear she's greedy for wealth and luxury," I said, as the gloomy sky suddenly brightened.

All along, I thought the transition from night to day was a gradual process, but now I realized it happened in an instant.

No wonder poets describe dawn as a daybreak.

The use of 'break' couldn't be more accurate.

From darkness to light in an instant, if that's not a 'break', what is?

might be valuable, but what's that compared to the benefits of being

but his worth was tens, hundreds of those parks. Becoming his

this all too well, otherwise, she wouldn't have used Aiden's life

never wanted me, just my fortune,"

laugh. Did he really think Haley

world of the wealthy, how many truly married for love and

a young and fresh-faced woman, who ended up with Lord Clark,

Was that love?

Love for his

you care?" Conrad murmured, "If you were after my money too, you wouldn't have... left me because of her,

turned a blind eye, at least

for letting Conrad walk away

guess I'm just foolish," I

my name, "did you ever

all the years I loved him, he dared to ask

like you're not satisfied with just killing someone;

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