460.Chapter 460
Ten days later, Sophie stepped out of the Duke’s estate in her wedding gown and humiliatingly climbed into the carriage sent by the Marquis’s estate to fetch her.
Caleb had not come. At that moment, Adeline was keeping him confined within the manor, waiting.
“It’s just a simple wedding ceremony. If you had gone in person, the Stonor family would have been honored. But we’d be the laughingstock of everyone,” Adeline said, poking Caleb’s forehead with a hint of discontent.
Caleb curled his lip. “It’s my uncle’s family. Wouldn’t it be nice to bring them some glory? We’re family, and Sophie is going to be my concubine. Mom, why are you so stubborn?”
“Have you forgotten already?” Adeline had been holding in her frustration since morning. “When your leg was broken, your uncle didn’t show an ounce of familial concern.”
At the mention of this, Caleb immediately fell silent. Back then, when Adeline had learned about Caleb’s broken leg, she had scolded him while crying her heart out, almost collapsing from grief. She had even fainted for a whole day and night before regaining consciousness.
Since then, Adeline had been at odds with Gabriel. Every time she saw Caleb limping, she would burst into tears and curse Gabriel.
Although Caleb’s leg had improved now, Adeline still couldn’t help but resent Gabriel whenever she brought it up.
Caleb, fearing that Adeline might take out her resentment on Sophie, had been avoiding his mother these past few days. ‘Forget it. None of that matters. Today is my wedding day. Once Sophie is my concubine, everything will be fine, Caleb thought contentedly.
However, he had no idea that in the carriage heading toward the Marquis’s estate, Sophie was seething with anger. “Damn Caleb. Damn the Marquis’s estate. How dare you humiliate me like this?”
As soon as Sophie sat in the carriage, she tore off her veil, her face filled with rage and hatred.
Sophie had thought that after sleeping with Caleb, she would surely be her wife and have a grand wedding. And he had promised her.
But after he went back to discuss it with his family, the Nevill family insisted that she be a concubine.
Gabriel had strongly opposed it; otherwise, she might not even be a concubine but merely Caleb’s mistress.
‘Caleb, who do you think you are? You’re just a loser chasing after me. If I had a better option, I wouldn’t be with this fool. What’s the difference between a concubine and a mistress if I’m not the legitimate wife?‘ she thought.
Sophie bit her lower lip so hard that it almost bled, but she just couldn’t accept it. She could have married someone better. But now, because of her father, Caroline, and Eliza, everything had gone terribly wrong.
Sophie wondered, ‘If my father had declared me the legitimate daughter when I returned to the estate, I wouldn’t have schemed like that. If Caroline hadn’t interfered, my mother and father wouldn’t have separated, and I wouldn’t have become a bastard.
‘Or if there had been no Eliza, I would have been the only daughter of the Stonor family and naturally the legitimate one.’
In Sophie’s view, her poisoning, instigating, and other schemes were all to reclaim what rightfully belonged to her. She didn‘ t think she was in the wrong at all.
Sophie clutched her veil tightly, staring at her wedding dress, her eyes almost bloodshot. ‘Right, if I were the legitimate daughter, my wedding dress would be a hundred times more magnificent. This damn dress is an insult to me, she thought. Sophie sat in the carriage, sulking for a while before slowly taking a deep breath. She thought, ‘No, something must have happened. Caleb was completely smitten with me.
‘He couldn’t have changed his mind suddenly. It must be those people at the Marquis’s estate. Adeline is trying to humiliate
me.‘
The more Sophie thought about it, the more she gritted her teeth. She wondered, ‘After the wedding, I’ll use Caleb to take control of the entire Marquis’s estate. After all, the Marquis’s estate is not like the Duke’s estate, which has many legitimate sons and is hard to control.‘
The Marquis’s estate had only one legitimate son, and Caleb was head over heels in love with Sophie. If she could control Caleb, she would definitely be able to control the entire
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Then, everything would be under Sophie’s control, and she would definitely get her revenge for today’s humiliation. Sophie finally felt a little better inside.
However, Sophie did not know that she would not easily enter the Marquis’s estate today.
The ceremony for taking a concubine was naturally not as grand as a formal wedding. Moreover Adeli – ·
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embarrass Sophie. The ceremony was as simple as it could be.
When the carriage arrived outside the Marquis’s estate, the coachman got off to lead the horse and guide Sophie in through the side door.
At that moment, a large fire basin suddenly fell from the sky. Clang. The fire basin, along with the charcoal fire, crashed in front of the side door. It seemed as if someone had deliberately kicked it over.
The scattered charcoal fire startled the coachmen and the maid who came together. The carriage jolted, almost throwing Sophie out of the carriage.
Sophie let out a scream and then angrily cursed, “What are you doing? Can’t you even lead the horse properly? Do you want to be fired?”
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