Betrayed By Love, Reborn By Fire

drawn. He looked from the documents to my face, his expression a m

from the bassinet beside

to the bassinet, scooping our daughter into his arms

at our Lily. Are you really going to deprive her of a father? Can y

e, a tiny, perfect s

ce, then back at his. The col

ng deprived of a father. If I stay here, in this house with you and your... family.

"And don' t worry. After the divorce,

out of the bed, to walk away from him, he

r to you, it was a real accident!

nd on my arm, then

pregnancies. They leave this house, and I help them start new lives elsewhere, ju

w the calculation in his eyes. He was weig

ond was all hi

cheek. Eleanor had slapped me, he

cking. "You dare suggest harming my grand

and hope, now turned on me. Autumn, emboldened by Eleanor

usatory. "How can she ask us to do that? These are her h

but Autumn shot her a warning glance, and she fell si

ment. There was nothing left for me here. My heart, which ha

took Lily from a stunned Daniel, and walked out of t

of the mansion, into the suite of rooms directly adjoining mine. The house, once my

by enemies. Lily cried constantly, her small wails echoing in the caverno

t. "Shh, my sweet girl," I whispered into her soft hair. "It'

taff who looked at me with a mixture of pity and contempt. I could hear them on the other side of

eality, I walked quietly toward their wing. The door to the sitting room

of the new European expansion," Autumn was boasting, her voice full

out of the picture, he' ll need a gentle woman to manage the household. We just have to be patient

ictims. They were players in a game I hadn' t even known I

making a list of my personal assets-stocks, properties, funds my family had given me. I would di

assistant, a new girl hired by the agency, b

she gasped. "She' s gon