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The Price of a Stolen Marriage
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My father had severe face blindness. Forty years ago, someone drugged him, and he spent the night with my mother. But because he could not recognize faces, he ended up marrying the mistress who had taken my mother's place. From then on, my father and that woman became the golden couple of Kingsport's elite circle. My mother, however, was branded shameless for becoming pregnant out of wedlock. She never married. Forty years later, I married into the wealthy Wellington family with my looks, talent, and hard-earned success. My husband and I had a loving marriage. The day my son brought his girlfriend home, I was seated at the head of the table. The young woman across from me was beautiful, bright, and carried herself like someone who had been adored her entire life. I knew exactly who she was. She was the granddaughter of my father and the mistress. Looking at her face, which bore a striking resemblance to my father's, I didn't take the gift she held out to me. "You want to marry into the Wellington family? Keep dreaming."
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Chapter 1 The Girlfriend My Son Brought Home
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The Price of a Stolen Marriage Chapter 8 Justice, At Last
A week later, I had my mother's grave relocated.She was laid to rest in the finest cemetery on the outskirts of the city, on a south-facing hillside where the sun shone brightest.The headstone was not large, but two words were engraved on it, clear as day—Grace Bennett.She had been trapped in that village for forty years. Even after she died, she had not been allowed into the family cemetery.Today, she had finally left that place behind. At last, she could rest peacefully under her own name.Benjamin came. Dressed in black, he stood at the very back of the crowd.His hair had turned completely white, and he had lost so much weight that his jacket hung loosely from his frame.When it was time to bury her, he dropped to his knees. He kneeled alone in the dirt, far away from everyone else.Frederick stood on my left, and Christopher stood on my right."Mom," Frederick said as he bent down and placed a bouquet of flowers before the headstone. "I'm your son-in-law. I'm sorry I
The Price of a Stolen Marriage Chapter 7 Nothing Was Ever Yours
Benjamin's voice was so hoarse it barely sounded human."Mr. Ashcroft, what do you want?""I want to see you. I want to meet you. I want to see what the daughter your mother raised looks like.""You already did yesterday. I was the one on stage."Silence filled the other end of the line."I… I couldn't see you clearly. I have face blindness… you know that. I can't recognize people's faces.""Maybe you can't recognize faces, but you can recognize what's in someone's heart. Forty years ago, if you'd asked just one more question, if you'd asked whether my mother was telling the truth, you never would've driven her away."But you didn't. You believed everyone else. "You chose the woman who could benefit you. My mother had nothing, so she was the one who got cast aside.""Sera… It wasn't like that…""Don't call me Sera. You haven't earned that."I hung up.…Natalie came to see me three days later.She kneeled outside the Wellington estate, wearing a wrinkled sweater. Her hai
The Price of a Stolen Marriage Chapter 6 Too Late for an Apology
Benjamin collapsed into his chair onstage.He stared at me, his lips trembling. "Y-You're…""I'm your daughter. The woman you drove away forty years ago gave birth to your daughter. You never knew I existed because you never truly looked at her."I took a black box out of my bag. It was an urn.The room fell silent."This is my mother. She waited for you for forty years in that little country town. She never remarried. The people there called her a whore, said she was damaged goods that no man wanted. She pretended she didn't hear them. She kept her head down and went on with her life. Until the day she died, she waited for that one person to say he was sorry."I looked at Benjamin. "That apology never came."I set the urn on the table in front of him. "Benjamin, look at her. Look at her face. Look at what you let happen to her."Benjamin reached out, trying to touch the urn. His hand shook. His fingertips hovered barely an inch above it, but he couldn't bring himself to make c
The Price of a Stolen Marriage Chapter 5 Forty Years Stolen
Silence fell over the room.Benjamin stood on the stage, the smile frozen on his face. "W-What did you just say?""I said Natalie's grandfather and Christopher's grandfather are the same person."My voice was not loud, but every word hit the audience like a nail driven into their ears."Forty years ago, someone drugged you, and you spent the night with my mother, Grace Bennett. The next morning, your current wife was lying beside you wearing my mother's clothes. You have face blindness. You couldn't tell one person from another, so you married her."And my mother was thrown out of the Ashcroft family. She was carrying your child. She went back to the countryside, where people called her a whore for the rest of her life. Until the day she died, she never got to set foot in Kingsport again."The audience erupted.Some people shot to their feet. Others leaned together, whispering. More pulled out their phones and started recording.Benjamin's face turned as pale as paper. "Y-You'r
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