By noon, Hailey Stewart would become a widow.She just didn’t know it yet.Calvin Blake was the adopted son of the Blake family’s second son. He had been abandoned on a snowy day as a baby, and the Blake matriarch had taken him in and raised him as part of the family.Now, he lay motionless on a hospital bed.His face was pale and thin. Machines surrounded him, their steady sounds filling the quiet room.After initially being told to remain at the estate, Hailey had been brought to the hospital when Calvin’s condition suddenly worsened.Now she stood beside the bed, staring at the husband she had married only that morning.So this was Calvin Blake.A stranger.Her husband.And judging by his condition, a dying man.“Stop standing there like a statue,” Rowena Harver snapped. “If you can’t help, move aside.”Hailey quietly stepped back.Rowena was Calvin’s mother and Hailey’s new mother-in-law. She looked exhausted, as though she had not slept properly in days.A servant entered carrying
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