Once Invisible, Now Irreplaceable

her when a sharp voice

re you

ix of shock and fury. Closing the distance in seconds, she snatched

e second my back is turned? I

e glanced at the discarded milkshake, finding th

, had already spun

ything else? Do you

rating with the urge to call Dean on the spot

wrong. I asked her

she didn't look the l

you. But she does. She's your

arpened int

on her, would we even be in this mess? How else

works a lot. She har

e sliding back to where

r from his first marriage. Yet, in her own wa

lena's neck. Nothing

face as she wondered if her little setu

ood family, she never would have handed Ethan over to Elena. But wi

country. You're his wife. For once in your life, think about someone other th

, letting out a sof

le thing for this family. Is that just

she had no answer. A heavy si

roke the

ome medicine... Elena, coul

nd slipped out

hold when Katrina's venomous voi

e-that much is obvious. Her mother worked herself into an early grave, and your father was too absorbed in

ful scoff

mother was just

te everything that had happened the day before, she refus

rescription, she made her way to the gynecology department.

the examination with

like to report th

izing the dark implicati

as my husband. He just got back from

ation before her expression

vise avoiding intercourse for a while, and tell your husband to be more caref

learly drawn her

er cheeks, Elena took the tube of o

he practically ran straight i

d to the pharmacy bag in he

to see Bridget? Or are

nce, the picture of a perfect gentleman. Yet, something in his eyes always made Elena's skin

ld out the bag of medicati

The doctor renewed the

brow, a faint smirk

It's been a while since we

ings to do," she

she turned on her heel, desperat

k, ambiguous look clouded his eyes. Once she was out of sight, he cou

n walking out of the gynecology wing with this specific

gers tightened their grip

so cold, always so reserved-could be ca

past three years. A woman left alone in an empty

uld have to return to the Ashcroft house

out a shaky breath as a heavy

toxic. Warren wasn't even blood, yet his constant, looming presence made her skin crawl. Her father had tried

an almost blind leniency toward Warren. Not wanting to force her father

ad grown up in felt

hrough traffic, her phone began to vibrate in the console. The caller ID fl

nd shrill. After a brief moment of

Mrs. C

e line was Simone Call

cency. Elena was well aware of where she stood. Aside from playing the dutiful wife i

the manor. We need to

Simone didn't even pause for a breath, barrel

d Gareth's dying wishes. Now that Ethan is officially running the Blackwoo

l clear: this divorce was happeni

After all, what woman would willingly surrender her status as Ethan Blackwood's legitimate wife? E

t the road ahead, her exp

hould I com

ntirely detached, sounding exactly like a woman who had

er tone visibly threw

e never a good match anyway. He deserves someone of his own standing.

tched for a fract

ld be the

sive thought cr

ent the night ravishing was the exact same wife he

than Blackwood would undoubt

r, brief, and utterly devoid of humor-as she signaled an