But if Olívia annulled the marriage, how would I hurt Ernest Abertton? She was the only thing he cared about. He barely had contact with his older daughter, and I wasn’t a creep to go after the youngest Abertton brat. So I was stuck with Olívia Stick-Figure… that annoying, insufferable, unbearable woman!

I wouldn’t give her money, and I wouldn’t go back to that house—it wasn’t my home. She’d live in the Clifford mansion, and I’d stay in my private residence in a gated ...