“You’ll look lovely in this Leah, why don’t you go try it on,” Vera said with a wide smile plastered on her face.

She became the only motherly figure I had left when my own mum fell sick, and I constantly wondered how an angel like her could ever marry a devil like Thomas Kingsley, and worst of all birth a cheat like Xavier.

She was one of the reasons I could not just call off my relationship with Xavier, not like I had any say in that aspect.

But it would break her, and she was ...