Deborah was leaning against a propped-up pillow.
She'd changed out of the hospital gown into a simple white dress with a sweetheart neckline.
she's really fond of white dresses, Kira thought absent-mindedly.
Deborah was wearing white in the photo.
She was wracing white when Kira saw her in person for the first time..
And the dress she had on now, though different in design and fabric, was just as elegant.
Kira wondered if Austyn had bought that dress for her.
"Miss Connelly," Kirsaid when she couldn't stand the silence any longer, aren't you going to asl "About what?!
"About me and Austyn
Deborah glanced at her with a faint smile I'm not stupid."
You mean you already knew Austyn and 1 are married?
Deborah nodded
Kira tilted her bead to the side. Then how can you be so calm?"
'Why can't I? How else did you expect me to act?'
Kira shrugged. I don't know. I thought you'd at least be more....!
'Moer what?!
'More hostile
"Why would I be hostile to you!
Oh come on Kina threw up her hands. "There's no point pretending. The last time we talked, you made it clear. You said you'd wait for the man you love, that you wouldn't mind being the taler om You were talking about Austy, right?" Deboyalı's placidatritude galled lier.This belongs to - ©.
She was the legal wife.
Deborah was the uthier woman to wrecker manage
Why was the woman acting like she was beyond reproach?
"I was," Debresaid I will get Austyn back, but I'm not going to be the other woman. Miss Hewitt, I want a fair chance."
A Carchance?
Al what?
At destroying her marriage and stealing ber mant
Kita couldn't hold back her anger anymore.
She shot to her feet. "Miss Connelly, I don't know which country you've been living in, but we don't do things like that here. We don't interfer mariage. We don't try to break up a couple in the name of true love. You call it fair chance, I call it homewrecking!" Alat chance the nerve of the woman!
Deborah was imperturbed. But Miss Hewitt, you told me yourself that your marriage to Austyn wasn't because of love. There was some other f since you don't love each other, why can't Austyn be allowed to find true happiness elsewhere? Are you that selfish to trap him in a loveless marri.
Kita blanched.
Deborah had found her weakpoint.
In the beginning, she married Austyn for money.
Throughout the year, she had been looking for ways to gain
Falling in love with him wasn't part of the plan
ther independence and divorce hin
But now that she had, she was filled with conflicting emotions that tormented her daily.
on the one hand was the giddiness of being in love.
On the other, the dread of their marriage coming to an abrupt end, as well as the feeling of inferiority in front of Austyn. Deborah was a formidable opponent.
She'd met kirjast pace and already had the measure of her
Deborah didn't the look of dejection on Kira's face
She smiled. The ones of a fair fight is really for your benefit, Miss Hewitt. If I wanted to fight dirty, you wouldn't last two r Ent gittrend waste. His first womanwes me. We have a history that's longer than the entire duration of your marriage." Krabi her lower lip She was only seeing Deborah clear for the first time.
The woman warner harmless as her delicate appearance suggested.
So was stored, good at playing games
Auky nemamed to find the ward in meeste allence
Deborah was sitting labed incking our the window
Kira was glumped in a chair, head lowered
Austyn was fatiated
It appeased that na money business had been conducted in his absence
"It's done. "He handed over a prescription bag to Deborah "You can leave the hospital now."