Chapter 3
“Oh,” Nathaniel lowered his hand, surprise flickering across his face. “Last night I’m sorry I was too busy to come back and protect you from Damian. Grandfather found out and wants me to take you for testing 1
Testing for what? Obviously to check if she had contracted syphilis
He claimed he’d forgotten to protect her, when he was the one who had deliberately handed her over to Damian. Now he was lying to her face, deceiving everyone in the Sinclair family
Playing with her reputation like it was yesterday’s trash.]
Aurora’s face drained of color. She didn’t want to go–just a minute earlier, Damian had sent her his medical results proving he was completely clean. Another of Nathaniel’s lies exposed.]
But Nathaniel dragged her to the car anyway. Inside, they sat worlds apart, and she noticed how he subtly wiped his hands after touching her. Did he think she was contaminated now?
Aurora turned away, her eyes burning with unshed tears, her silence a stark contrast to her former self
way to the
in the past, she would have filled the car with nervous chatter until Nathaniel shut her up with an irritated kiss. Now she remained silent all the way to Hospital. a hollow shell obeying doctors‘ orders like a programmed robot
During the cervical examination, she lay on the hospital bed like a corpse. The procedure was excruciating–normally they would offer anesthesia.||
But Nathaniel had somehow “heard that tests were more accurate without pain relief, so Aurora endured the entire torturous process without medication, each stab of pain remanding her how little he valued her comfort
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e stumbled from the exam room clutching her abdomen, taking small, pained steps, only to freeze at the sight before her: Nathaniel, red–eyed and intense. forcefully grabbing Felicia Rhodes’s arm. Apparently, the forty year–old woman had come for her own gynecological exam.]
What the fork is going on? Who gave you permission to come here with this guy?” he demanded, his voice cracking with emotion he’d never
At forty, Felicia still played the helpless ingénue to perfection.
She flashed Aurora a victorious glance before turning due eyes to Nathaniel, her voice a practiced whimper.]
r shown Aurora
“I’m forty years old. Nate,” she pouted, touching his chest lightly. “Can’t you stop being so overprotective? A woman’s beauty fades so quickly. I’ve already upset the Walle family, and the Rhodes won’t risk their empire for an adopted daughter. She batted her eyelashes dramatically. “Marriage is my only option now What does it matter who I end up with….-]
Felicia gazed at Nathaniel with calculated adoration. If they weren’t in a hospital, they probably would have been all over each other
One the bioingical son, one the adopted daughter–outsiders never connected them romantically
“That’s not happening Nathmuel insisted, his voice thick with genuine emotion. The Wolfes wantrouch you. I’ve made sure of ILI forbid you to marry anyour
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“That man is garbage–las Lody’s destroyeil from disease. I won’t let
Aurora couldn’t help but laugh–a timer, hollow sound. The trony was almost too perfect. So Felicia was too precious to be with other men, but Aurora was disposalde waste? Even in someone supposedly dying of syphilis her body could be traded away like a cheap canudity?
The pieces of her shattered hear turned to dust. Whatever lingering hope she’d bat board died in that moment, leaving nothing but colt empty space in her dest
Autora turned to leave, her decision to escape this toxic nights
meurt, a hysterical woman dinised her with urine mixed with iv
cemented farver, but found herself suddraly surrounded by reporters. Before she could 1
“The bark” Anyone with Nathan Rhodes deserves to set his know what it feels like to love everything! Apparently, Nathaniel had destrued unless live over the years building communities to acquire prime real estate
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This woman had some band Nathur’s contain with Damian last night Delleyasi Aurora was truly his beloved | Aura screamed as the trated woman plunged a kitchen kolde into her stomach again and again ||
She tried to call for help, instantively looking back toward Nathaniel, only to see him already mishing Felicia away, bis protective arm around her shoulders. without even a backward glance at the woman hed stained to chenah |
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