Anne lifted her hand, intending to wipe the corner of Nigel's lips. "Nigel, are you

okay?"

Before she could touch him, Nigel took a step back. "I'm heading home."

With that, he left.

Anne's hand froze midair. Now that no one else was around, she dropped the

gentle act, her expression twisting with resentment and malice.

She hated Fiona.

Anne was the daughter of the Hampton family's driver. Years ago, her father had

died saving Nigel's father, leaving her an orphan.

Out of gratitude, Nigel had always looked after her, and she had grown up

alongside Nigel.

She had loved him for as long as she could remember, convinced that one day

she would marry him and become his wife.

However, out of nowhere, the Hamptons and the Jakemans arranged a marriage

alliance, and Nigel married Fiona.

At first, Anne consoled herself with the thought that Fiona was nothing more than

a bargaining chip. She had always thought Fiona was just a woman doomed to a

lonely life in a loveless marriage, but that wasn't the case.

Fiona was a seductress. The moment she married into the family, she latched

Nigel and never

stood outside Nigel's study one night two years into their marriage.

closed, just slightly

gap, she saw them. There

Nigel was

and her slip dress slipped

bare, silken skin.

"I still have a lot of work to

clung to him and said,

arms and replied,

here in

and kissed her, letting her hands slip under

and roam wherever they

you hired a

"Who?"

play dumb. That gorgeous secretary

like a meal."

chuckled. "I really have no idea who you're talking

you don't even know her,

her transferred somewhere else."

"Do as you like."

Satisfied, Fiona's voice turned

do you

your fault

handsome and rich. If

on

'feeding the public."

a serious

hand under her dress. "You

chance

every night-there's

for anyone else."

"Darling, let's have

with the sudden change

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