Chapter 200

Alice Bennett had always considered herself quite the looker. Back in school or at work, guys trying to impress her were a dime a dozen. She was sharp, clever, and always carried herself with this air of calculated grace that made her, in many people's eyes, a total goddess. But all that confidence in her appearance got thoroughly shaken the moment she stood next to Caitlin Jordan. Next to that kind of stunning beauty, Alice suddenly felt like the ugly duckling trying to match up to a flawless swan—completely outclassed in every way. Women don’t really take kindly to other women being drop-dead gorgeous, especially when that other woman also happens to be the wife of the head of the Perkins family empire. It stung. A lot. Why did Caitlin get to have it all—beauty, status, power—while she, Alice, was just a nurse from a working-class background, tending to a sickly man like she was born to serve? Looking up at Caitlin, who sat untouchably above it all, Alice felt that familiar bitternes