She’d learned the truth from one of her husband’s most trusted aides.
She was livid.
So, her husband had never truly forgotten that woman. Worse, he’d brought back the other woman’s child.
And what about her?
Where did that leave her?
Ever since their marriage, she and Cyrus had spent more time apart than together. Now, with the years showing on her face and nothing left to her name, her husband was still caring for his ex-girlfriend’s child.
The irony was almost laughable.
She loved her husband—loved him more than anyone else ever could.
There was nothing she wouldn’t do for him.
But he didn’t love her back.
Their marriage had been arranged, a merger between the Harper and Stone families—no love, only obligation.
She refused to accept it.
What did she lack compared to that woman?
She had the powerful Stone family behind her, status, influence, everything that woman could never dream of.
If only she could sever the last living tie between Cyrus and that woman, then he’d have no choice but to return to her.
Liana had always believed that.
But it was just her own delusion.
Ever since Cyrus thought the child had died and the other woman had disappeared, he’d only grown colder, coming home less and less, barely even seeing her.
She loathed the woman who had ruined their relationship.
That’s why she locked the child away in the basement, like a criminal, determined to make her suffer for it, day after day.
That child was nothing but a burden—this was all her fault.
“Liana, my son—no one knows him better than I do. He’s always valued loyalty above all else. He remembers the kindness you show him,” Old Mrs. Harper said, singing her son’s praises.
The marriage between the Harper and Stone families had been a strategic alliance between two powerful dynasties, mutually beneficial on all sides.



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