The Imposter Bride by Sallie Woods

Chapter 2

The sleek black Rolls–Royce cut through the guardrail, somersaulting in mid–air before plunging into the ocean, causing a massive splash….

“Natalia!”

Magnus watched as the car drifted into the sea like a speck of dust. He roared, his eyes almost popping out of his sockets. His vision blurred as he swerved his car to follow, but he collided with the hefty steel columns of the overpass, bouncing back, and getting wedged between the barriers and the column.

As Natalia’s car sank deeper into the sea, water filled her ears, mouth, and eyes. A wave crashed into the wreck, sweeping her out through the shattered window She could hear her sister Kendra’s laughter echoing in her ears. “Natalia, you deserve this! Only your death can restore my marriage. How dare you take the man who rightfully belongs to me!”

She closed her eyes, and the image of Magnus pained and remorseful face surfaced in her mind. “Nat, don’t leave met You promised to be with me for life. Have you forgotten?” Had she made such a promise?

Then her mother, Addison’s tear–streaked face appeared. ‘Natalia, give your sister her man back. You can’t do this. Have you no shame?” Really? It was them who had insisted she married that man, and now they were accusing her of stealing her sister’s man!

“Nat, come with me. You don’t belong here. I’ll take you to meet your birth mother. She thinks about you every day!” She saw Callum’s hopeful gaze

“Natalia, I’ll wait for you, no matter how long it takes. Can’t you see, he doesn’t love you? Why else would he be with another woman while you were pregnant! He’s not worth it, Natalia!”

to go, but all she wanted was to be

to be with her child. Goodbye, Magnus! Goodbye, Dad! Goodbye, Hector! Goodbye, Call Her body slowly sank

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family and the Clarkson family were preparing for a wedding. It was supposed to be Lucius’s engagement to Kendra, but the groom

won’t marry that cripple!” Kendra, the young

Lucius, but then Magnus suddenly expressed his wish to marry you,” Kyler said

won’t marry him. Dad, are you really going to force your daughter to marry that waste?”

I will never let you marry that cripple Don’t worry” She

in Addison’s shoulder, sobbing uncontrollably.

Kyler. “Kyler, the Andersens are being utterly unreasonable. The engagement was supposed to be between Lucius and Kendra. Why did it suddenly change to that cripple,

adores Magnus. His guilt towards him grows every day, and he wants to give him the best the world

they’ve breached the agreement, we need not keep our end either Since Morgan loves Magnus so much, why not we marry

Natalia is off–limits!” Kyler’s eyes

Isn’t Kendra your daughter too?” Addison cried out. “You brought back a bastard from your affairs, and I raised her for over a decade without

he brought Natalia home and faced a storm of controversy Back then, he did everything he could to protect her, hoping she could grow up peacefully. Now that she had finally grown up, she was facing hardship again. What

him. Anger was clear in his eyes. He walked upstairs, pushed open a room on the

we arranging Kendra’s marriage to Magnus? Weren’t you the one who promised me a union with the Clarkson family?” Lucius stood tall beside the old man, his