Vicky looked up at Tyler and answered, “Because…I’m your wife?”

Tyler laughed. “Wrong. It’s because I’m still useful to them.”

“How are you still useful to them?” asked Vicky with a puzzled expression on her face.

“I can help their adopted son to successfully get the position of being the heir to the entire Hart family’s fortune.”

Vicky was a little taken aback. “They want you to help him? But aren’t you their real kid…?”

“So what?” Tyler asked back indifferently.

Vicky fell silent.

Tyler was right—what did it matter that he was their biological child? He had long been labeled as the ‘rebellious one’, and it was all because of her. If she was not in his life, he would not have been hated by his parents nor would he have to suffer through so much torture.

made Vicky feel as if a giant boulder was pressing against her chest and making it

did not continue the conversation,

for so long—was feverish. The emotional shock of seeing Tyler had

she had no energy left. Her resistance made Tyler’s eyes darken

a married couple does, so why are you still acting like we are strangers?” asked

I’m worried that

dirty and cold basement for the past several days without a chance

freak,

having heard her explanation. “It’s fine,”

to present her best side to the man they loved. Therefore, Vicky could not imagine just how unkempt and unsightly she must have looked at the moment. Even though they were husband and wife, she was still embarrassed to have him see her like

long as she did not look at him, she could pretend he was

it must be,’ she thought in a

Vicky’s evasive behavior made Tyler very

fact that I

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