I Refused to Marry Any of Dad’s Three Adoptees

I was the sole heir of my family. But I was a woman.

Everyone said the three foster husbands my father chose for me are the true heirs. Yet none of them has ever even looked me in the eye.

I’d tried countless times to get Melvin Butler’s attention—flirting, reaching out, anything—but all I ever got in return were cold, disdainful stares.

At first, I thought he treated all women like this. Then I saw it with my own eyes.

He knelt before Addison Dolton, the chauffeur’s daughter, and promised, “I only agreed to marry Audrey to repay the Rodgers for raising me.