The Perfect Wife's Perfect Revenge

Chapter 398

Later, your father met your mother by chance, and the two of them fell in love. When Mrs. Edith found out she was pregnant, she hoped to use the situation to persuade your grandfather to approve their marriage.

But the Turner family was a powerful business dynasty, and at that time, your father was just a low-ranking officer. Your grandfather was firmly opposed to your mother marrying a man of such modest means.

To make things more complicated, my own mother came back into your father's life around that time-bringing three-year-old me with her. Your father was torn, caught between two women he cared for and unable to decide what to do.

In the end, your mother stepped aside to let my mother and your father be together. She returned to the Turner family.

All of this, Stein only learned from his mother's stories. His father died on the battlefield, and his mother succumbed to grief not long after. It was only when she was on her deathbed that she told Stein about the tangled love of the previous generation—and revealed that, deep down, his father had always loved Victoria's

mother.

Stein's mother had always been a kind-hearted woman. She understood the burdens her husband carried, and she didn't want him to leave this world with regrets. As she neared the end, she made Stein promise to find his half-sister and to help her reclaim her rightful place in the family.

as if she'd been the one to come between two people who truly loved each other. If she hadn't returned to find Granville Campbell, none of this heartbreak would have

to say who truly interfered with whose happiness. There was no betrayal in

mother's dying wish to heart. He eventually managed to find Edith, but sadly, Edith never told Victoria the truth-not even at the end. All she ever said was that Stein was a distant cousin, and that no matter what happened,

listening, her eyes were brimming

once suspected

voice trembled. She'd met Granville a few times-he was just as gentle and refined as Stein, nothing like Simms. She remembered how tenderly he'd treated her. She'd had no idea he was her real father. Now that the truth was

word "Dad" caught in her throat, and she broke down

and yet, in

her cheeks as Stein looked at her with nothing but affection in his eyes. His

cry," he murmured. "At least all these years, we've known about you. Edith probably kept the secret to protect my parents' memory-and to protect you as

least, he'd given Victoria a legitimate place in the world. That way, no one could look down on