Victoria stared at the video on her phone, unable to take her eyes away from the woman sitting at the restaurant.
Loretta.
The woman she had thought was her love rival for Julian. The woman she had spent so much time watching from a distance, wondering what made Julian so interested in her.
But Loretta was not Julian's woman. It turned out that Loretta was Kevin's wife.
Victoria's fingers slowly tightened around her phone. Suddenly, everything began to make sense.
The gala. Kevin had also made a bid for Loretta that night. At the time, Victoria had thought nothing of it. She had assumed Kevin was doing it for Julian.
Now she understood. "Why did I not think of it? I knew she was from the Gladstone family." Victoria could not understand why she had been so stupid.
She remembered asking the gala organizers for Loretta's photograph afterward and being told that it could not be provided. Back then, she had assumed it was because the Carter family preferred to keep a low profile.
