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.

by the downpour, she

pushed her away and

by her pleas. He turned his back and disappeared behind the door, the ornate

scandal of Natalie and Brian’s affair had spread like

a

sent abroad with little fanfare, and the Howard and Wright families quietly let the matter rest with no response. Given the Howard family’s status

years later, at the Wright family, a servant whispered to Samuel Wright, “The chauffeur

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the Audi

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

another rainy day. Natalle stepped out

up, her gaze met Samuel’s

eyes.

she left the Howard family and when she was sent away. And it was raining on

Gracia Wright, Samuel’s second daughter, with a sly smile at

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 effortlessly, having just finished filming a period

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