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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
smirked as he laid down his knife and switched our plates so I had the steak he’d meticulously cut
like a child! I can cut my own steak! I glowered at him
like this,” Ashton said to my father with a
I’d been holding back reared its ugly head, ready to tear him apart.
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sorry about this. Please forgive Adelaide, Father.” Despite the trash flowing from Ashton’s mouth, my
her to craft this plan,” Ashton accused his
nearly choked on my water.
By this
and infuriated by the accusations that came out of his stupid mouth.
around Corinna must’ve infected
our family’s reputation,” Ashton said coldly to my father. “Father and I are politicians.
I wanted to yell at my ex.
father nodded, his anger dying down, “Adelaide would never do this on her own.
so stupidity is contagious.
to me coldly, “you have not held a ceremony yet. This mistake can easily be reversed. You will annul the license and marry the man I have
“What?” I gasped.
my father said, with
looked shocked at my father’s
silence at my father’s words. I couldn’t retort or say a single thing back as the room spun around me. Thoughts rushed through my
over and over.
hate
notorious “sshole. Though successful, he was renowned to have a horrid temper and often visited
to care for me a little. Corinna was always his golden child, but
appease my cold-hearted father years ago.
beyond cold. It was downright cruel.
mustn’t. I must not cry. For years, I’d been telling myself to be strong, to be tough, to
Stunned, I turned to him.
under the table, cold and confident like everything was
back,” Damon whispered for only me to hear. “I won’t let that happen.”
and looked my father dead in the eye as
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to worry about, future
us furiously before Father looked her way and returned to her
dare-” my father sputtered.
a ghost as always, I hadn’t even noticed he
the servants would’ve cowered, but Piers had dealt with
is on
is?” My father
gasped, “Mother-in-law is
me, obviously,” Corinna
Father cleared his throat, and
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