“Old Mr. Blackwood, do you have to be so cruel?” Chloe Bennett’s voice trembled with barely restrained anger. “What exactly makes me inferior to Naomi Hart?”
She still could not understand it. Naomi had been nothing more than a divorced woman carrying baggage, someone who had spent years grinding herself into dust for the Foley family until she was little more than a glorified nanny. What was so special about her?
Or was it simply that Old Mr. Blackwood had grown too used to having Naomi under his roof?
Now that Ethan Blackwood had divorced her and Naomi had left the Blackwood estate for good, the old man could no longer stand the absence of his former caretaker. Was that why he treated Naomi differently?
The more Chloe thought about it, the more the pieces seemed to fit. Ethan’s recen
