Broken Promises The Anniversary Crisis

Our love was a rebel song, forbidden by the Devereaux family's rigid rules.

I was Ella, a blues singer from Bourbon Street, and he was Beau, the Prince of Prytania, who swore his heart was irrevocably mine.

He chose me, even when his powerful family threatened to disinherit him.

"It's you and me, Ella, always," he vowed.

I wore his promises like my grandmother's treasured locket.

But the Devereauxs changed tactics.

A new cruelty.

They gave Beau an ultimatum: produce an heir with a "suitable" woman.

He begged me to understand, a "formality" before we could truly be together.

Then Savannah Sinclair, polished and ambitious, entered our lives.

Soon, Savannah was pregnant, and the "little longer" stretched into an eternity.

Savannah became a constant, cruel presence, plotting against me at every turn.

She maliciously framed me for harming their newborn daughter, Charlotte, planting "evidence" and staging hysterical outbursts.

My protests fell on deaf ears; Beau let his parents lock me in a cold guesthouse.