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.

a giant boulder was pressing against her chest and making it hard

Vicky did not continue

account of being locked up for so long—was feverish. The emotional shock of seeing Tyler had subsided, leaving her feeling sleepy and

even though she had no energy left. Her

are you still

I’m worried that I’ll get

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

been a clean freak, so she was afraid

face softened after having heard her explanation. “It’s

imagine just how unkempt and unsightly she must have looked at the moment. Even though they

eyes to avert his gaze, thinking that as long as she did not look at him, she could pretend he

must be,’ she

Vicky’s evasive behavior

the fact that I was the

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