After my sister died, I married my brother-in-law and sent him on his way ten years later.
Chapter 1
After my twin sister died of cancer, my family manipulated me onto my brother-in-law’s bed.
The next day, I knelt naked before Julian Vance, begging him for a chance at life.
His dark eyes lingered on my face, a mirror image of the woman he’d lost. A flicker of something — yearning? — crossed his features, and he took me into the Vance family.
For ten years, I tirelessly managed their daily lives, serving both father and son.
Then, when I was pregnant again, Julian Vance tore up the lab results.
“Get rid of the child.”
But his stepson, Leo, who always seemed to despise me, stepped in front of me.
“Don’t hurt Mom!”
Yet, when I was six months pregnant, after drinking the porridge Leo himself had prepared for me, I bled uncontrollably.
A cruel satisfaction spread across Leo Vance’s childish face.
“Finally, this day has come. Disappointed, aren’t you?”
“I only recognize Dr. Serena Wells as my mother. As for you? Just die!”
What he didn’t know was that I married into the Vance family for one reason: to avenge my sister.