His Substitute Bride Became His Obsession
“You have the talent. You always did. What you didn’t have was someone standing beside you who wasn’t profiting off your silence.”
I looked down at the folder, at the contract inside with my name typed clean and unmistakable across the top, no shared credit, no asterisks, no fine print waiting to swallow my work whole the way Adrian’s had.
“Why now?” I asked. “Why help me now, after three years of nothing?”
Something flickered across Grace’s face, guilt maybe. “Because I let you walk out of here three years ago and marry a man I never trusted, telling myself it wasn’t my place. I’ve regretted it every day since. I won’t make the same mistake twice.”