My wife, Katrina Paine, was being pressed to the floor by several burly men in our cramped rented apartment. The men were street thugs whom my mother had hired.Katrina’s face was deathly pale, and she was so terrified that her body shook uncontrollably.“Why are you doing this, Samantha? Everything was going just fine. Why are you doing all this?”“Don’t call me by my name so casually. You’re not my family.”My mother, Samantha Harding, frowned. Her gaze burned with fury, and her voice was filled with hatred. “I already disowned Aiden when he said he wanted to marry you. If he dares to abandon his older brother for a woman, then he doesn’t deserve to be a member of this family. The Harding family raised him for twenty years. It’s time for him to pay us back, but where has he run off to?”At Mom’s words, I felt a wave of bitterness rise within me. My older brother, Anthony, had been in poor health since he was a child. The whole reason my parents decided to have me was so I co
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