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Nadine hadn’t learned until later that Adam had emotionally blackmailed Brad into giving up on his relationship with Jean.
The only reason Brad had shown up at the beach that fateful night five years ago was because he saw no point in living if he could not have Jean.
It was bad enough that he had a heart problem, but to have his beloved sent away by Adam ruined him completely. With neither hope nor ambition to keep him going, his life seemed bleak.
He had been lost in his thoughts when he saw Nadine leap off the cliff and into the ocean.
Nadine’s slender silhouette bore a striking resemblance to Jean’s. At that moment, it wasn’t some strange woman Brad saw falling into the ocean, but Jean.
He jumped in after her without a second thought. From that moment on, he treated Nadine as at replacement for Jean.
Jean’s name was like a curse that shackled Nadine to this loveless marriage.
Nadine couldn’t escape Jean even in her nightmares, for the latter smiled sweetly at her as she purred, ” You’ll always be nothing more than my replacement, Nadine. Now and forever!”
A sharp pain stabbed through Nadine. She bolted upright screaming, drenched in cold sweat.
She reached to turn on the lamp on her nightstand and realized the space next to her was empty.
She brushed her fingers over the sheets where Brad would normally lay. They were icy, with no lingering
trace of warmth that indicated he might have slept here at some point.
Brad had to be sleeping with Jean tonight. Nadine doubted he was coming home.
Nadine was only human, after all. Since the day Brad took her and Sean in, she immersed herself in
playing the role of his dutiful wife and homemaker.
Jean’s return was like a hard slap in Nadine’s face.
Nadine stared out at the rain that fell from the night sky and finally saw through the mask she had put on for the last five years: she was not Brad’s wife.
She was nothing more than a damsel in distress who had been given the chance to play princess for a while, but the magic had long worn off, and it was time for her to snap back to reality.
No matter how much she loved Brad, it was time for her to let him go.
But that was easier said than done. Nadine hadn’t even told him how much she loved him yet.
The heartache that ripped through her cleared her addled mind. Now that she was completely awake, she grabbed her phone and gave Brad a call.
other end before her call was rejected,
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on her screen.
astute is
never texted her before, and the one time he did so was to send
tell her not to bother him while he was in the middle of something and to give up
had gone by since Nadine first got the message, and she was
she
made up: she was going to give Brad and his true love exactly what
wanted.
through the torrential rain to drop
held up an umbrella and shrugged off his coat to drape it
to the front
sure she stayed completely out of the rain, so she remained bone–dry while
were soaked with rainwater.
sight of this, Jean feigned heartache and said, “Brad, you’re
-cold.”
his umbrella
one of the
see you back here, Ms. Sawyer! This house. has stood
thought Mr. Hamilton would dismiss me after you left, but he was kind enough to let me keep my job. He told me
how horrible the last five years have been for Mr. Hamilton, Ms. Sawyer. Please don’t be upset with him. It wasn’t as if
would never have married that wretched Nadine if she hadn’t been so
behind Jean and surveyed the furnishings within the house with
was just as it had been five years ago before Jean
the familiar
I gave up on us five years ago. I should have fought for us even when your
stayed with you. I’m
tiptoes to stretch herself higher, clinging onto
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height, she suddenly pressed her lips against
When she blinked, she looked so harmless and ethereal that she reminded Brad of
with each
first love in his arms and being kissed by her. This should have been the greatest moment of his life,
against his, he realized he wasn’t
imagined he would be.
and the kiss was nothing more than a physical touch of
to push Jean away when she stepped out
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