Chapter 4 Trophy Wife
The other guy laughed. "But Meryl's a real knockout, isn't she? With that face and figure, she'd turn heads anywhere. Keeping her around as a trophy wife wouldn't be so bad."
He glanced at Dalton, tossing a card onto the table. "Dalton, are you really okay with letting someone else have her?"
Dalton finally spoke, his tone flat and uninterested. "You want her? She's yours."
The guy was taken aback, unsure if Dalton was serious or just messing with him, and chuckled awkwardly.
"Everyone knows Meryl's been devoted to you. She's followed you around all these years. I guess I'm not that lucky."
Outside the door, Meryl was stunned, her face twisting into a bitter smile.
It was well known that she loved Dalton, but hearing him casually offer her up like a prize was a painful blow.
The sting of humiliation made her eyes well up. She clenched her fists tightly, feeling overwhelmed by a suffocating sense of betrayal.
She remembered being fourteen, new to the city from a small town.
Her dad, Malcolm Stone, had put her in an elite school.
It was supposed to be a fresh start, but Lydia Stone's schemes ruined it fast.
they locked Meryl in
freezing and terrified. She screamed for help until she
Dalton kicked the
It was freezing cold, and there he was, with the blizzard
uniform flapped in the wind, wet hair
the dim light, she couldn't see his face clearly, but she remembered him
he said, turning
a
she had loved him deeply, chasing
just something
the window, pulled out a long-forgotten number, and dialed
the phone rang, someone called out to
"Meryl? You're back?"
ended the call, and turned
and approached with a skeptical expression. "When did
How ridiculous.
Lydia's birthday but
over. "A little hardship can be good for you. It teaches you lessons. Your father and I won't hold the past against you. Today's both your and your sister's birthday. Change into a dress quickly." Then, as if remembering something, she added, "Oh, right. Since you've been gone for three years, your room is
room. The moment she
the bathroom, trying
footsteps outside the door signaled the maid's
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