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Harmony
It was all true, Damien had been cheating on her and for who knew how long? She’d seen it herself and many times, apparently, just always forgot about it. She could feel the bile rising up in the back of her throat, as she realised just how dumb she had been.
A hand latched onto her as she hurriedly headed away from Garrett’s office. No longer wanting to be in there hearing anymore. “Harmony sweetheart, it’s all in the past now.” It was Laurel Damien’s mother “I have sent that girl away, overseas. He’ll never see her again.”
Harmony stared at Laurel unbelievingly. How could she just say that, did she still expect her to accept Damien back? After all she had just heard, after he’d laughed about it, and called her
that terrible name. She couldn’t believe it.
She pulled her arm from the woman’s grip. “No,” she stated, “how can you even ask me such a thing, I hate him.” She spat out “I’ll never take him back.”
“Harmony, please be reasonable. You have nothing and no one, and we’re offering for you to be part of our family. You’ll never want for anything ever again. This is how it works in their world. I was like you once… Do you think I didn’t have the same issue? That my own husband in
there, doesn’t have a mistress even now?”
Harmony was just staring at her more than wide–eyed, and she could actually see the pain in Laurel’s eyes and hear it in her voice. “It’s hard and difficult to live within their world, you sometimes have to conform and turn a blind eye to the things they do. In order to be a part of
their world, their family.”
“I will never.” Harmony shook her head “I’m not like you, I don’t want that for myself. Would never accept being with a man that doesn’t want me, wants another.”
“It’s not that he doesn’t want you, Harmony, he just… has needs that,” she sighed “It’s difficult to explain. He’s attracted to both of you in very different ways. We’ve talked to him. He won’t do that anymore, there will be an iron–clad prenup with stipulations in place to prevent that, if you can’t accept that about him.”
“No.” she turned and walked away, only to be latched onto once more, and she felt it, that bile rising in her throat again, as she was halted and turned to face Laurel again. She stopped trying to fight it off, and let herself just throw up right there on the woman’s pants and shoes.
Laurel gasped and staggered back away from her, staring down at her vomit–covered clothing.
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“It sickens me.” Harmony told her “I will never be like you, I have more respect for myself than
that.” She stated and she did.
She felt a set of hands on her upper arms and heard Ryan state “I’ve got you Harmony, you’re alright.” And that weird southern accent was rolling out of him once more.
He turned her away from Laurel. “Leave Mrs Blackwell, I think Harmony has heard more than enough, you and your family will not get what you want from her.” and she was walked away by Ryan, to his office and ushered on to his couch in there, where he brought her a glass of water, she took it with shaking hands.
She could barely hold onto it to drink from it. She was shaking so much, she didn’t know if it was disgust or anger that had her shaking so very much, probably a bit of both she thought.
Damien’s own mother, a woman who had always been nice to her, smiled at her and seemed
to really like her. Seemed happy in her life all the time; had just told her that Gregory had a mistress, always had one, from what Harmony took from those words.
She knew it to be true, the pain she’d seen and heard was real. That Laurel, wanted her,
Harmony, to be just like that. Accept her son and his mistress forever and always. Just suck it
up and turn a blind eye to it.
Damien didn’t love her, and now she knew he never had, he’d always love Chloe, she now
realised. She was just to be his trophy wife, someone that would stand next to him, would
smile all the time and pretend he loved and doted on her. When, in fact, he didn’t want her at
all. Would use her body to make him look good and honest, a family man. Redeemable
because she took him back.
She might have nothing and no one, but she had self–respect, and wasn’t going to be a
doormat, that man and his family could walk all over, just to have access to his money and
status. She had always gotten by on her own and could continue to do so. She was never
going to let him touch her ever again. She didn’t know how it worked in their world, if what
Laurel had said was in fact true of all wealthy people, but she didn’t care for it, wouldn’t be
allowing herself to be pulled into a world like that.
“Breathe honey.” She heard Ryan state softly, as she dragged in a breath, hadn’t even realised
she was holding it in.
“We’ll never let him near you again,” Ryan told her.
“It’s…It’s so sick and twisted.” She murmured.
“Very wrong indeed.” Ryan agreed with her, and pulled her gently into him, to lean on him, and
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she let him “Everything, will be okay.”
She was trying to think through all she’d heard, all the things Damien had said back then and
how he’d called her that terrible name, and it dawned on her that he not only knew she’d slept
with another, had probably seen it. it had been in that night club as well. “He knows.” She
turned her eyes to Ryan.
“Knows what?” he asked.
“Who…” she looked at her still flat stomach “I slept with that night, he must have seen it,” she
murmured. “That’s not the first time he’s called me that or told me I slept with some random
guy.” She felt much calmer sitting here, and could for the first time, see her way to talking about what was going on, she also no longer felt sick or nauseated.
“Let it go, you two were over the moment you saw him with Chloe. You stated that yourself
right to him.”
“But, what if he finds out about my baby?” she worried.
“He will, eventually. You’ll only be able to hide it for so long.” Ryan nodded.
“I don’t…even know who it is.” she murmured, and she didn’t.
“We’ll get to that later.” He sighed a little.
“What?” she asked.
“It’ll all get sorted out in time,” he smiled down at her “Just stay here and relax for a bit longer.
She nodded and leaned on him some more, she was actually comfortable sitting there with him, taking comfort from his presence and she knew it. It was a bit weird, but she didn’t want to move away from him. Didn’t really understand it either, she’d only known him for all of three days but was at ease in his presence.
There was just something about him that was calm and comforting, and she needed that right this minute. She was still all leaned into him when Garrett walked into the office, sometime later and looked at the two of them. A smile touched his lips, and she felt Ryan chuckle a little
“I got her, all is good.”
“I can see that.” Garrett nodded, and he came and sat on the coffee table in front of her “I’ve had those people removed from the building. There will be no more dealing with them. They are horrid people, Harmony.”
“She wanted me to take him back, to let him have a mistress, always.” She muttered.
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“Appears to me, they hand–picked you for him. That Chloe is in their eyes unacceptable wife material. You, however, are perfect for that in their eyes.” He shook his head.
She shuddered visually at the thought of that. “It’s sick and twisted is what it is, I don’t know how they think it’s acceptable at all.”
“Agreed.” Garrett sighed “You should love your wife or husband, and always be faithful.”
“She threw up only once, Garrett.” Ryan told him.
“I know, kind of expected it actually. With all that was said, I was unhappy about what I learned myself.”
“What did you learn?” Harmony asked curiously as she sat up, though she felt Ryan’s hand
drop to the small of her back.
“Just what I stated a moment ago. The Blackwell’s, Gregory and Laurel hand–picked you, set Damien up to date you with a view to marrying you after a predetermined amount of time, I’d say. Though like you, I believe he actually wants Chloe. So I’m guessing some sort of deal was struck between all of them regarding what they wanted, only you got left out of it on purpose.”
“I was the mistress all those years, is what you’re saying.” She was staring at him now, more than a little horrified. She’d allowed herself to like the man, fall in love with him, give herself to him and learn to do those things he liked in the bedroom from him. Because she’d loved him, and wanted to make him happy, enjoyed being with him, and it was all nothing to him. Just a
lie.
She was just a body to be used by him. He’d told her Chloe was better in bed than she was, and now she understood that was actually true for him. Because it was Chloe that he truly
desired and wanted, not her.
She wondered how he did it, slept with her all that time, did he just imagine she was Chloe, was he even attracted to her at all? She’d heard Laurel state he was, but she doubted it, she was nothing like Chloe. Wondered if he had to make himself touch her?
She could feel Ryan’s hand rubbing her back as pain touched her, as she sat trying to understand everything about her relationship. Three years and all of it was a lie, none of it was real, or not for Damien. He’d never loved her, never likely would. Wanted to marry her, but only
for how it would make him look.
Like a wholesome family man, that didn’t care about the wealth and status of the woman he was in love with. Showing the world he had a heart, and could love a poor orphaned girl, that
came from nothing.
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She was so very dumb to think a man like that could love her. She’d had doubts in the beginning because of his wealth and their different status. But he’d pursued her and laid on all the charm, and she’d been suckered in by him; it was all just a lie.
“Why did he do it? How could he be with me all those years, if he was in love with Chloe all this time, how could he…have s*x with me at all?” She didn’t understand that.
She saw Garrett sigh a little on the heavy side. “Men can be fickle, he likely does find your attractive, and likes that part about you, that your so very beautiful, so sleeping with you is probably easy for him. He might well prefer your looks to Chloe, but still love her… Who
knows?”
She huffed “I feel like a piece of used garbage.” She muttered.
“You’re not that.” Garrett told her and leaned forward and took her hands in his, “Never think that about yourself, you did nothing wrong. That whole family is rotten to the core, it seems. Coerced you into being with their son, into falling in love with him, so that they could get you to marry him, and be the perfect wife that loves him and stands next to him is all.”
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