Celeste admitted in a raised voice, “Yes, I married you because you are a Vernal. How can I pass up such an opportunity to be married to the richest bachelor in the city at that time? My parents extremely approve of you. I have no reason to decline you. You treat me so well. Your parents also treat me well, even if they don’t fully approve of me. I got to live a life of luxury, fame and honor. Then my parents also want that for themselves. But you and your parents remained so principled. They are helping so many people, and yet they would not want to help my parents. They want me to have control as the new Vernal Matriarch. Anyway, you are not aware of all the stealing I was doing from our household budget. When you fell out of love with me, I had just been your wife for the optics. We liv
