Chapter 4

I stared blankly at Samuel, utterly lost as to why he would say such a thing. "My parents never did anything—"

"I heard everything at the hospital," Samuel snapped. "Your parents never thought much of me, did they? They believed someone like me could never make you happy. They thought it was a raw deal to marry off their precious daughter to me."

I vaguely recalled the time I was hospitalized after I lost my first child.

Samuel had been glued to my side to take care of me, and I had finally started to open up to him.

My…