Chapter 1
Kate Sutton’s daughter was dead, killed by her husband, Chris Cohen, and her so–called elder sister, Kyla Sutton.
Rowena, the little girl, was only seven months old and just barely learning to sit up on her own. She was a sweet little cherub, with two dimples on her smiley face, looking like a real–life doll
Unfortunately, she just fell and died while Chris and Kyla were supposed to be watching her. They said it was a tragic accident and admitted they weren’t paying enough attention.
Kyla taunted Kate provocatively, “Kate, Chris is mine. He’s the father of my son. As for your daughter, she’s just a little bastard.
“Do you know how your parents died? It was me. They always claimed that I was also their daughter and treated me the same, but when it came to the family fortune, they were only ever going to leave it to you, their biological daughter.
“Go to hell and reunite with your bastard, Kate!”
Kyla’s words hammered in Kate’s ears. The sound of poor Rowena hitting the ground and crying out ripped through her heart. As Rowena’s cries faded, panic took over, and Kate begged them to rush her to the hospital. She swore she’d give up everything–Chris, Sutton Group, all of it–if it meant her daughter could live.
However, they turned a blind eye to everything. By the time she managed to get Rowena to the hospital herself, it was too late. The one thing that really mattered to Kate was gone, and now she felt like she had nothing left.
Kate carried Rowena’s tiny body as she walked out of the hospital, one slow step at a time, It was drizzling ourside, and the winter chill seemed to bite even harder with the main
Kate’s face was a blank slate, her eyes hollow, but tears continued to spill down her cheeks, drop by drop.
The rain soaked through her hair and clothes, but she felt nothing but the weight of her own regret
She was the Sutton family’s biological daughter, but somehow got mixed up and swapped at birth. It was just four years ago Kate finally reunited with the family at the age of 25
Kyla – she was the one who’d been raised up under the Sutton roof for over two decades and had gotten real tight with the whole family. The Sutions just couldn’t bring themselves to cut ties with Kyla. So in the end, they decided to keep both girls as part of the household.
When Kate returned to the Sutton family, she was already twenty–five. Her biological parents felt guilty toward her and, after she got accustomed to the high society circle, wanted to arrange a good marriage for her.
At that time, there was a whole passel of wealthy families in Sherpsel trying to get in good with the Sunons. Even the big shots of the bunch, the Davidson family, they came calling to propose a marriage alliance. They had their eye on Kate, the Suttons one–and–only true daughter.
However, the Davidson’s eldest boy, Alfred, he’d been in some big car accident that left him all busted up and crippled. And the guy, therefore, turned from just plain cold and high–and–mighty into downright unapproachable.
All them young ladies who used to be lined up to marry him? They were high–talling it the other way, like he was the devil himself,
Perhaps worrying about offending the Davidsons, Kate’s parents told Kate she could make the call herself. Fool that she was, Kate fell head over heels for Chris, and flat–out refused to marry Alfred.
Blind and foolish in love, she fell for Chris and refused to marry Alfred. Although her parents didn’t expect her to agree to the marriage alliance with the Davidson family, they didn’t want her to marry into the Cohen family either. It was she who insisted on marrying Chris, and her parents. unable to disuade her, had to agree.
Her parents didn’t expect her to go for the Davidson marriage alliance, but they sure didn’t want her marrying into the Colien family either. However, Kate was dead set on Chris, and her parents couldn’t talk her out of it, so they just had to go along with it
When it comes to marriage, one wrong step can send the whole thing straight to hell.
After Kane married Chris just like she wanted, she soon learned the ugly truth Chris and Kyla were the ones who really had a thing for each other. But during all the marriage negotiations between the two families, neither Chris nor Kyla had the gumption to speak up and come clean.
Is turned out that the two of them had cooked up a real nasty little trick, just waiting for poor Kate to come falling right into it. And Kate was just tou simple–minded to see through their little conspiracy.
Then, after that accident that took her parents, and with the birth of Rowena, Chris started getting more and more cold and indifferent toward Kate
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He had the gall to go bringing Kyla right on home for their little trysts. Kate tried her best to defend her marriage, but she was just no match for Kyla. To make things worse, there was not a soul in the whole Cohen family stood by Kate’s side.
With Rowena in her arms, Kate stumbled forward, eyes blank, while crossing the road in a daze.
SCREECH –
The screech of brakes filled the air.
With a loud band. Kate got slammed by that car, sent flying up and then coming down hard, blood spreaking out all around her on the ground
Kate felt nothing but pure pain, her whole body aching badly. She fought to crawl her way toward her little girl, but that impact from the car had been too much, sending the kid flying right out of her arms.
“Rowena.. she screamed out
Kate clawed her way forward, inch by agonizing inch, trying to get to her little girl. She reached out her hand, but just couldn’t quite make it all the way to Rowena.
Then a pair of big feet in shiny black leather shoes came into view in her blurry, fading vision. The man bent down and scooped up Rowena’s small body, placing her right into Kate’s arms.
Kate held her daughter clour, overflowed with joy, but the blood from her own wounds was staining poor Rowena’s lule body
Kate was just too hurt to hold on. Struggled to look up at the man, she only saw him sitting there in a wheelchair before the darkness closed in. Eve in that wheelchair, he still exuded an regal aura.
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Kate recognized him after Chris and Kyla ignored her pleas to get Rowena to the hospital, Kate had come running out holding her litle girl, flagged down a car, and begged for help to get them to the hospital. This man in the wheelchair had been the one in that car. He’d let them in and told the driver to rush to the hospital
Though it was still too late to save Rowena, Kate was deeply grateful to that man. Turned out he was the very same Alfred Davidson she was supposed to marry way back when
When their eyes met, Kate gave him a smile. If I get another chance, I’ll definitely choose to marry you, Alfred, she thought to herself.
A deep, cold voice cut right through the fog in Kate’s mind. “When’s she gonna wake up!”
“Mr. Davidson, Dr. Oliver said she just lost a bit too much blood and passed out. Now that the bleeding’s stopped, she should be coming to real
soon,” another man answered.
Just lost a bit too much blood shoot, I was sure I was a goner for sure… Rowenal Rowenal Kate suddenly snapped her eyes wide open.
The first thing she saw was not the plain white ceiling of that hospital room, but a pair of cold blue eyes staring right back at her. The man had a real handsome face, but his expression was stem as a preacher, and that sharp, ty glare of his made him seem downright unapproachable,
Kare recognized him right off the bat he was Alfred, the only one who’d shown her even a lick of kindness when she had nothing left
“Thank you, Mr. Davidson…” Kate said, gratitude plain as day in her voice.
In Sherpsel, everyone always called Alfred “Mr. Davidson,” and treated him with that kinda respectful tone. Even with his disability, he still held a mighty high position in the business world.
Alfred had this cold, hard look in his eyes as he stared on down at Kate. As he rolled his wheelchair along, he gave a frosty instruction to the bodyguard trailing behind him, “She’s awake now, take her back and tell Leland Sutton that I’m not gonna force his daughter to be my wife. Tell him to keep a real close eye on his daughter and make sure she doesn’t come pulling no more suicide stunts in front of me.”
Suicide? This whole scene’s starting to feel quite familiar… Kate thought to herself. Right, when the Davidson family came to propose marriage, they were specifically asking for me, the Suttons‘ one and only real daughter
Back then, Kate figured marrying Alfred, who was all banged up, would be a huge burden to bear for the rest of her life. So she slipped over to the Davidson mansion, found Alfred, and put on a real dramatic show by threatening to off herself just to prove she’d rather die than marry him.
