Madly Yours (Nora Reed) novel Chapter 179

Hudson's expression froze for a fraction of a second, but it passed in a flash.

He raised an eyebrow, his lips curving into a smirk. "What? Forgot where I just went?"

Nora was stunned for a moment before realizing what he meant.

Right.

He had just been to the Lancaster ancestral home. He must have run into Tiffany there.

So it made sense that he knew her name.

Whether she was Eleanor Vance or Nora Reed...

She definitely wasn't Jade Reed.

Nora lowered her eyelashes, her fingers curling involuntarily.

"Um... does that not bother you?"

After all, the Reed family had deceived him, and she had taken her sister's place in the marriage...

Regardless of whether the 'warding off bad luck' superstition was nonsense or not, it was still a matter of life and death in their eyes.

From what she knew, many elite families in San Francisco still believed in that sort of thing.

At the very least, old Mrs. Lancaster Sr. believed it; otherwise, she wouldn't have made Hudson marry her to change his luck.

But now that the bride had been swapped, did the superstitious blessing still count?

Wasn't he afraid?

As if guessing what she was thinking, Hudson reached out and laced his fingers through hers.

His palm was dry and warm, completely enveloping her slightly cool fingers. His thumb gently stroked the back of her hand.

"I'm actually grateful the Reeds swapped Jade for you."

Nora's heart skipped a beat.

"Because it's you, I couldn't be happier."

In that instant, her breathing seemed to falter.

She could vividly hear the sound of her own heartbeat—heavy, fast, threatening to hammer its way right out of her chest.

She had only been with him for a dozen days.

In the grand scheme of a long life, it was barely a blip on the radar.

But in those few days, she had experienced things she had never felt in her entire twenty-plus years of life.

She wasn't made of stone.

Her heart could race.

She could fall.

She could be uncontrollably drawn to this man.

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