When I hung up, Spencer looked trapped.
But instead of apologizing, he turned on Vanessa.
“You had no right to bring those messages here!”
Vanessa laughed bitterly.
“You promised me we would be together. Then I found out you were planning to keep your wife until the inheritance was secured.”
“You knew I was married!”
“Yes. And that was my mistake.”
She looked at Chloe.
“I won’t ask you to forgive me. I just couldn’t let him keep lying to you.”
Then she walked away.
Spencer watched her leave before turning back to his wife.
“Chloe, please. We can fix this.”
Chloe looked down at her wedding ring.
Four years earlier, she had stood in a white dress beneath a canopy of flowers and promised to love him through everything.
She had meant every word.
Now she slowly removed the ring.
“You didn’t just lie to me about our daughter,” she said. “You lied about what kind of father you were going to be.”
