Untouched for Three Years, I Carried His Rival’s Heir

Scarlett is the wife of Kieran Thompson, heir to the Thompson family, bound to him by an alliance between the Valerio and Thompson families. In three years of arranged marriage, he has never touched her. She believed he was simply cold, until the night he came home drunk, held her for the first time, and whispered another woman's name: Camilla.

Now seven months pregnant, Scarlett moves through the estate untouched by his neglect. Kieran brings Camilla home, kneels to remove a splinter from her hand, and shuts down a clinic floor for her cold, while remaining blind to his own wife's condition. Scarlett no longer fights. She keeps her secret, counts down the days, and waits for the child to be born — the child she insists is not his.

But the Valerio alliance cannot be broken without an heir, and Kieran's searching gaze is beginning to find cracks in her calm.