The Marriage He Ruined Became Her Escape

Ever since Annelise divorced and returned to the Ravenscrofts, Raphael had become a completely different person.

With Henrietta, he was always aloof, proud, distant—untouchable.

But with Annelise, he lowered himself entirely, showing a kind of tenderness Henrietta had never once received.

When Annelise had nightmares in the middle of the night, he abandoned Henrietta—who was burning with a high fever—and stayed up all night by Annelise’s side, reading her Andersen’s fairy tales like she was a child.