Chapter 3

I rushed forward, my voice filled with urgency.

"Dad! Mom! Look at me! It's Aubrey! How can you not recognize me?"

Eleanor and Richard's faces initially showed a flicker of undeniable shock.

But that expression vanished in an instant, replaced by intense disgust.

"Lunatic! You crazy woman!"

Eleanor slapped me across the face, snarling, "Aubrey is perfectly fine inside! You imposter, how dare you cause trouble here!"

Richard frowned, his tone icy. "We don't know you! Get lost! Don't come here acting crazy!"

I clutched my burning cheek, stumbling back a step, staring at them in disbelief.

Eleanor and Richard were both present when Liam and I signed our prenuptial agreement.

How could they not remember me? Were they trying to break the agreement?

"Mom and Dad, Liam married into our family, giving up all inheritance rights. You both witnessed him sign those papers. Are you trying to break the agreement now?"

"Why won't you recognize me? Can you afford the massive penalty for breach of contract?"

Eleanor's face flushed with anger. She stepped forward, grabbing my hair, hitting and cursing at me.

"What 'married into the family'? What nonsense are you talking about! What man would 'marry into' another family like that? You're disgracing our family name!"

Richard also kicked me to the ground.

"I think you're just a lunatic, trying to push your feminist agenda everywhere! What agreement? You just don't respect men! Get out! Get far away from here!"

I lay on the cold floor, my heart filled with resentment.

Just as I was about to pull out the agreement Liam and I had signed, a foot stomped on my hand.

The impostor held up the prenatal report, looking at me triumphantly.

"I kindly brought you to the hospital, and you're still so ungrateful. To try and seduce my husband, impersonate me, and now harass my in-laws? How shameless can you be?"

"I know you might be desperate to marry Liam, that's why you'd do something like this, but you can't just keep chasing us!"

Her words immediately drew whispers and comments from the surrounding people.

"Turns out she's a mistress trying to climb the social ladder, pretending to be crazy."

"How pathetic, she's obsessed with a man."

"Seriously, the real wife is pregnant, and she's still causing trouble. So malicious."

I looked around. Everyone was staring at me as if I were insane.

A wave of immense grievance and fury washed over me, almost suffocating me.

Why wouldn't anyone acknowledge that I was Aubrey Sterling?

"What's all this commotion?"

A familiar voice. Liam had arrived.

I looked at the face I had lived with for three years, then fiercely slapped him across the face.

"Liam, have you forgotten? When you came to propose, you said you were willing to move into the Sterling family and obey me your entire life?"

"What exactly are you doing now?"