(Aurora's POV)
Chloe watched me for a moment. "Does it bother you? Me bringing up all of this? The old stuff?"
I shook my head. "No. Honestly."
"Because if Jasper had known from the start that you were the real Langford heir-" She stopped, reconsidering. "He never would have gone through with the divorce. You know that, right?"
"Probably not," I agreed.
"Doesn't that make you angry? That he would have stayed for the name and the money when he couldn't be bothered to stay for you?"
I thought about it. Really thought about it, the way I hadn't let myself for a while.
"If he needed my bloodline to want to keep me," I said, "then he was never worth keeping in the first place. The marriage was already over before it ended. It just took me a long time to see it clearly." I set my coffee d
