'Then why did he marry me? Why isn't he with the child's mother?'
Madeline's temples throbbed painfully.
'No wonder he was willing to marry the woman his son had just dumped. No wonder the terms were so generous. I'm estranged from my family, freshly dumped by my boyfriend, desperate to climb out of my situation through a powerful connection, and easy to control. Even if I found out Adrian had an illegitimate child and a mistress, what power would I have to question him? So when he said I was suitable, this is what he meant. Nothing comes for free. All the care I thought existed beneath our financial arrangement was nothing but wishful thinking. The shortcut across the class divide is littered with traps I can't see.'
Anger at being deceived collided with the humiliation of feeling powe
