Chapter 2 A Substitute

If they thought she was worthless, fine. She’d leave them to it.

Five years of trying to make this marriage work, all that love and effort she’d put in… what a waste.

Later, Arthur’s assistant came to handle her discharge paperwork.

Keeping up her act of memory loss, Charlotte looked at the assistant. “Who are you?”

Grace Johnson hesitated briefly. “I’m Mr. Harrison’s assistant. I’m here to take

home.”

you

“Mr. Harrison?”

“The man who was just here. Your husband.”

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expression neutral and puzzled. “So why would he

wife had lost her memory

an arranged marriage?” Charlotte mused, keeping up her act. “Is that why he’s saying we’re just

leaving

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outside Rose Villa. Charlotte’s

– Arthur holding Sarah, their bodies close, his eyes soft with a tenderness she’d never

for him, she realized, weren’t

built their life together. Five years ago, he had been drugged, and she’d woken up in his bed. Their families quickly

night,

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you, but I won’t betray you. Let’s just be a

convenience meant no love,

She’d agreed.

Arthur started controlling every part of her life, telling her

while, Charlotte fooled herself into thinking

felt hopeful and tried harder to be the perfect wife he seemed

they married, she got pregnant with Julius, and she started dreaming of a happy

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changed. He stayed

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