No more trust.

Her face had reddened as her mind processed the words Ethan had told her. William had a fiancé?! Since when?! How?!

Ethan felt pleased upon hearing Anna’s mix of emotions in her voice as she asked, a tad desperate. “What do you mean, Ethan? William’s fiancé?”

She clutched him closer, like her knees were going to buckle from the shock of the news.

Ethan knew that this would make Anna come to him and break the small link that William had to Anna so easily.

That was exactly why he had mentioned Lily.

Oh, brother, he thought delightfully. You shouldn’t have made things so easy for me to play with you.

“It’s exactly what I mean, Anna.” He said.

Anna felt betrayed and at the same time angry. She felt like such a fool for falling for that act of his again. Why had she not known? After all, it explained the way that he had insisted at first that she was a gold digger. He had a woman he was going to marry. And having children out of wedlock would have honed everything for him.

Ethan continued