"How could you have the heart to do it?"
Adelaide could not hold back her rage, her eyes burning with hatred for Benjamin.
She had been with Benjamin for several years when she fell pregnant with her little daughter.
When she found out, she became overjoyed. Not only would the Carteret line finally have its heiress, but she began to feel a real affection for him.
Once the girl was born, the rest of the Carteret family would have no choice but to accept him openly.
But she had never imagined he would poison their daughter out of pure self-interest.
At first, she had truly believed her own poor health, from old injuries, was to blame for losing her daughter. It was only when Owen sent her the proof that she finally realized the truth: every bit of it had been Benjamin's doing.
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