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.

nearly blinded by the downpour, she made

him, but how could Brian be so heartless as to have pushed her away and made her leave? She didn’t

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

that Natalie’s mother had run off with a fortune from the Howard family and a lover, leaving Natalie behind. Natalie had stooped to

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

to Samuel Wright, “The chauffeur has

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the Audi parked

yet to finish her studies. But with her grandfather Matthew suddenly falling ill and insisting on seeing Natalie one last time, Samuel

stepped out of the Audi, holding a

up, her gaze met Samuel’s for

eyes.

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

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

responded curtly. Then, she strode past 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 effortlessly, having just finished filming a period drama that was already

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