The meaning behind Aiken’s words was obvious. He said Becky had made the right decision to divorce Rory. It meant that even Aiken thought that Becky shouldn’t have married Rory in the first place.
Rory froze. Without another word, he swirled his glass of wine before downing it in one go.
Aiken sighed at Rory’s silence. He said cautiously, “To be honest, didn’t you marry Becky just because your grandpa forced your hand? We used to think that you hired Becky to play the role of your wife.”
But nobody had realized that Becky took the marriage so seriously.
When Becky married Rory, they all thought that Rory had hired her to deceive Elmore.
It didn’t matter if Rory liked Raina or not. The fact that Elmore was forcing Rory to marry another girl of the same status had probably left him with no choice but to hire someone to play the role of his wife.
To these rich people, solving things with money was easy.
But obviously, Rory and Becky’s marriage was not that simple and money couldn’t solve whatever was between them.
Rory had thought that Becky had married him for money, but the truth was that she had done it for love.
When Becky married into the Casper family, everyone thought she did it for money. But how ironic a thought that was! It turned out that she was the daughter of the richest man in Bluepond. She wasn’t lacking in money.
Rory looked up at him with a dark face and said, “I never thought of divorcing her.”
Aiken looked at his childhood friend for a long minute and asked, “But were you a good husband to her? If it weren’t for the fact that we’ve known each other for so many years, I would have slapped you, Rory.”
Everyone in the upper class of Courtbush knew that Denise and Babette had worked together to deal with Becky again and again.
It was true that Becky had made a fool of herself on important occasions, but it was because they had set her up.
She might have been Rory’s wife, but nobody had thought of her as Mrs. Casper.
Comments
The readers' comments on the novel: Divorce Has Never Felt This Good (Becky and Rory)