My Mommy’s Brave Heart (Adina and Duke) novel Chapter 25

Chapter 25

The mention of scandals from five years ago caused a huge stir

The Daugherty family was also an important and dignified family in Sea City. It had held a grand banquet for Adina on her eighteenth birthday, which had made countless people envious,

However, the very next day, Adina had been caught sleeping with some man by the reporters.

From then on, the image of the most beautiful woman in Sea City was destroyed, and she ended up becoming a target of scorn

After that, she disappeared from sight for almost a year, and when everyone nearly forgot about the scandal, the Daugherty mansion went up in flames.

Adina‘s crimes were then exposed.

She had slept with a man when she turned eighteen, got pregnant out of wedlock, gave birth to b*stards, went through a difficult labor that led to her children‘s deaths, set the mansion on fire, and jumped into the river to commit suicide.

Each of these things could send the internet into an uproar, so when all of the events were linked together, the storm was even worse.

Adina‘s name had been present in countless headlines for two whole months.

This meant that there was no member of the upper class society of Sea City, including Duke, who did not know her name.

Her actions had caused a major uproar four years ago, so he had heard about it as well, even though he seldom paid attention to news like this.

Yet he simply could not link the person who was scorned and denounced by everyone four years ago with the brilliant woman before him.

“So, we‘ve really seen each other before...” Trent said with a dumbfounded expression “The most beautiful woman in Sea City... My mom tried to matchmake us, if I‘m not mistaken...”

Eilam shook his head. “If those things did not happen four years ago, Adina might have already become your wife, but do you actually think your mother would have let you marry her

now?”

Trent gave him the stink eye. “I didn‘t say that I wanted to marry her. I was just joking around. Why would you think I was being serious?”

“I seem to recall that you came here for the second lady of the Larson family,” Eilam kindly

“Bah. The second lady of the Larson family is nothing before the most beautiful woman in Sea City,” Trent said with a perverted tone. “Just you wait. I‘m going to woo Adina.”

Trent immediately went over to him. “Why not? Do you like her?”