Chapter 2

When Natalie stepped out the door in the shirt, she noticed the wide–eyed stares of half the Howard family, their expressions ranging from shock to disdain as they watched her bare feet carry her out from within.

The weight of their gazes felt like knives piercing through her, the pain so acute she thought her heart might split in two.

Sadie was quick to react. She grabbed a blanket and wrapped it around Natalie, ushering her back into the safety of her room.

Natalie’s mind was a whirlwind of confusion as she sat in her bedroom, the muffled voices from next door barely registering. “Everyone has seen it, and you’ve got to be responsible for her, right?”

“Responsible?” Brian snorted with derision. “Fine, I’ll give her what she wants!”

By the afternoon, the Wright family had sent people over. And Natalie’s belongings were tossed out like trash at the Howard mansion’s gate.

Sending Natalie back to her biological father was the Howard family’s final statement on the matter.

It was pouring rain, but Natalie didn’t bother with an umbrella. She looked at Brian with the cold. and hard expression standing under the portico, staring back at her.

trembling, nearly blinded by the downpour, she made one last

could Brian be so heartless as to have pushed her away and made her leave? She didn’t want to return to

the door, the ornate iron gate closing with a loud clang in

Natalie and Brian’s affair had spread like wildfire through

mother had run off with a fortune from the Howard family and a lover, leaving Natalie behind. Natalie had stooped to unspeakable acts to secure. her position and cling to

Howard and Wright families quietly let the matter rest with no response. Given the Howard family’s status

and a half years later, at the Wright family, a servant whispered to Samuel

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Chapter 2

Audi parked downstairs but

She had yet to finish her studies. But with her grandfather Matthew suddenly falling ill and insisting on seeing Natalie one last time, Samuel had no choice but to bring

another rainy day. Natalle stepped out

her gaze met Samuel’s

eyes.

rained the day when she left the Howard family and when she was sent away. And it was raining on her return. How

greeted Gracia Wright, Samuel’s second

with her luggage without a glance as she entered the Wright mansion. On the way back, she had learned from the Wright family’s butler that Gracia had been accepted into a prestigious film academy. Barely in her second year, Gracia could snag roles

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