Chapter 4 - The Forgotten Heiress
Three years earlier, Evelyn had walked into Graham’s life under the simplest of circumstances. She was a quiet, modest archivist working at the city museum. When Graham met her, he saw a beautiful, innocent woman with no demanding relatives and no obvious wealth—the perfect, compliant wife for an ambitious man trying to secure his social standing in elite society.
What Graham never knew was that Evelyn was the sole surviving granddaughter of Arthur Ashford—the legendary steel tycoon who built Ashford Hall in 1952.
After her parents passed away in a tragic accident when she was a teenager, Evelyn chose to live a quiet life, using her mother's maiden name to avoid the ruthless gold-diggers and fake friends who haunted high society. She wanted to be loved for who she was, not for her multi-billion-dollar inheritance.
When she married Graham, she placed her entire trust in him. She allowed his mother, Vivian, to move into Ashford Hall, believing they were building a real home together.
She spent three years being quietly undermined, criticized for her simple tastes, and treated like a charity case in her own ancestral home. Evelyn bore it all in silence, believing that once her children were born, Graham’s heart would soften.
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She was wrong. Graham and Vivian had been planning to push her out the moment the pregnancy was confirmed, bringing in Chloe—the daughter of a influential politician—to cement Graham's political ambitions.
👉 Read PART 5 to see what Graham finds when he searches the master office!
