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.

blinded by the downpour, she made

Brian be so heartless as to have pushed her away and made her leave? She didn’t want to return to the Wright family, and he knew that

He turned his back and disappeared behind the door, the ornate iron gate closing with a loud clang

Natalie and Brian’s affair had spread like wildfire through Streamville in just

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

month later, Natalie was sent abroad with little fanfare, and the Howard and Wright families quietly let the matter rest with no response. Given the

Wright family, a servant whispered to Samuel Wright, “The chauffeur

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Audi parked downstairs but

grandfather Matthew suddenly falling ill and

stepped out of the Audi, holding a black

up, her gaze met Samuel’s for

eyes.

Howard family and when

Natalie,” greeted Gracia Wright, Samuel’s second daughter, with a sly smile at the

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

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