He Covered for His Mistress, While I Gathered Evidence to Ruin Him

In the third year of their remarriage, Alvin Henson's mistress Sonia Harding becomes pregnant. Isabella Gilbert sends tonics and caregivers, then waits. Three years earlier she caught Alvin and Sonia together, was forced out with nothing and a million in debt, and her only brother was beaten and sentenced to eight years after Sonia arranged the charge. When Alvin offered a remarriage agreement, Isabella returned to the Henson household without hesitation.

She plays obedient for three years, quietly keeping backups of the business records Alvin believed destroyed and every photo and video Sonia sent to provoke her. When Sonia suffers a hemorrhage, Alvin accuses Isabella of ordering the drugging, drags her into the courtyard to kowtow toward the hospital, then locks her in the basement despite her claustrophobia. Starving and wounded, she still refuses to confess to a wrong she did not commit.