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have any
idea what you’ve done?” My father’s fury was something I was used to but never before had I seen him this angry.
As soon as Damon and I walked through the front door of my house, it was like we’d walked into a warzone. My stepmother sat beside Corinna at the dinner table, as she held her hand and glared daggers at me. On Corinna’s other side was Ashton, who I took particular care not to look at.
I’d lose my cool if I saw that “sshole’s face now,
“I can’t believe you ruined Corinna’s engagement party with this nonsense!” red-faced with a receding hairline.
my father shouted,
“I’m sure Addie didn’t ruin my engagement on purpose, Father,” Corinna said bravely, hands clutched on her chest as she smiled tearfully at me.
“I’m so sorry we didn’t invite you or Damon. I couldn’t bear to make Damon watch my engagement after our horrid split,” she said with a pitying look at Damon.
I eyed Damon’s reaction. He paid her no mind, only picked up his steak knife and began slicing into
his steak.
Corinna turned to me with teary eyes, “And I knew you had an important meeting with. your sponsor, Addie. I didn’t want to make you miss it just for me.”
She looked away, hand on her mouth like she’d suppressed a sob,
“You’re such a good sister, Corinna,” my stepmother, Tabitha, patted her hand with a kind smile. She turned to me with a nasty look, “so unlike Adelaide.”
“Good sister, my *ss-” I retorted before I stopped myself.
“Adelaide!” my father slammed his fist on the table, rattling the dishes and spilling his third glass of red wine. “Don’t talk to your sister that way! I should’ve known you would’ve caused trouble!”
Corinna peeked beneath her hand, a tiny smirk on her face only I saw. I clenched my fists under the
table.
I knew better than to take her provocation, but I still wanted to reach across the table and smack her.
“Don’t blame Adelaide,” Ashton’s smooth voice said. “I doubt this was her fault.”
“Not her fault?” my father raged, “the press is having a field day with us! They think there’s a fight for the inheritance of our families because of what she and that illegitimate child did!”
I peeked over at Damon, but he was unaffected by the accusation. Despite being true, it was rude and callous of my father to point this out,
“Here
as he laid down his knife and switched our plates so
I can cut my own steak! I glowered at him as he leaned back
plan something like this,” Ashton said to my father with a placating
me? The anger I’d been holding back reared its ugly head, ready
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advantage of her. I’m so sorry about this. Please forgive Adelaide, Father.” Despite the trash flowing from Ashton’s mouth, my father believed it wholeheartedly as
have seduced her to craft this plan,”
choked on my water.
this “sshole?
out of his
must’ve infected
Ashton said coldly to my father. “Father and I are politicians. This could influence the votes
wanted to yell
dying down, “Adelaide would never do this on her own. She would never disobey
wow, so stupidity
to me coldly, “you have not held a ceremony yet. This mistake can easily be reversed. You will
“What?” I gasped.
you as his third wife,” my father said, with no room for negotiation in his voice.
Corinna looked shocked at
I couldn’t retort or say a single thing back as the room spun around me. Thoughts rushed through my brain in a whirlwind but only
over and over.
hate me that
old and a notorious “sshole. Though successful, he was renowned to have a horrid temper and often
me a little. Corinna was always his
trying to appease my cold-hearted father years ago.
was beyond cold.
was happening, tears sprang to my eyes. But I couldn’t. I mustn’t. I must not cry. For years, I’d been telling myself to be strong,
around mine. Stunned, I
tightly under the table, cold and confident
Damon whispered for only me
tears and looked my father dead in the eye as he
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about, future father-in-law. She
before Father looked her way and returned to
my
our family’s butler, interrupted him formally. Silent as a ghost as
is it?” my father snapped. Most of the servants would’ve cowered, but Piers had
madam is on her way.”
My father
is coming? Why?”
Corinna
chaos. Father cleared his throat, and Tabitha brought out her compact make-up kit to do touch-ups. Even Corinna
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