The Millionaire Came Home Early and Found His Wife Living in the Servants’ Room—Then He Discovered What She Was Waiting For

A long silence followed.

Then Chloe whispered, “I thought Mariana would eventually leave.”

“Why?”

“Mom kept saying it.

She said Mariana had never really fit into our family.

She told me you were too busy to notice.”

The last sentence was the sharpest.

It was true enough to be useful to someone determined to exploit it.