In public, she was the noble daughter of the Muller family and the enviable young mistress of the Carrell family. But behind the scenes, she was a poor maid who had to wear a mask all day long and struggled for her livelihood.

Due to a conspiracy, she was forced to marry Ralph Carrell, son of the most powerful family in Northfield, in the name of Rayna Muller.

After the wedding, Ralph doted on her.

When Rayna showed up and claimed the place, she shed all her glory and left. She thought she would never see Ralph again, but Ralph took her into his arms and said, "Mrs. Carrell, you are not running away from me."

The Odd Luna Series

We had another moment of silence before Evan spoke again. "Hey Norah?" Past me hummed, waiting for him to tell me what he was going to tell me. "I love—" I looked up from my lap where my gaze was fixed and realized past me took her head off of Evan's shoulder and looked at him. I didn't realize what he was going to actually tell me in that moment at the time of this memory, but I knew what it was now. Too bad I didn't realize before now because he changed what he was going to say. "—This lake. It's just so pretty. Do you love it just as much as I do." It was so obvious what he was actually going to say and if I had realized that at the time, I would've made him say it.

"Yeah," past me smiled. "I love it too. Thanks for showing me."

"Mhm." He hummed. I knew that a part of him hoped I would've caught on to what he was trying to originally say.

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