Chapter 18

Thama's POVHearing about their engagement is not a big deal, but it comes when I least expect it. Carter is my husband, but no one knows this, not even the caretakers in the villa.

Everyone believes Cirino is my husband, but Carter is the man who is always in my bed whenever he has the chance and wants, and I can't seem to get him out since my body loves his touch every night.

He tells me over and over that I don't deserve to be alive and that I should have died with my father because what he did was evil.

I don't know what happened or why he blames me for everything, but it's clear from his words that it has something to do with my family, and I will surely find out.

These past several weeks have been difficult for me as I've been assisting Claudia with her engagement planning; it's as if I'm being used as a source of the firm for her so that it appears like we are on good terms and to make a name for herself.

Wearing high heels every day and on every