She remembered quite well, standing by the front door, watching with rising fury as he reached Gretchen and pulled her to a halt. Juliet's anger rose to an all-time high as she watched Ethan fall to his knees before Gretchen. Juliet had been furious enough to walk into the rain herself with the aim of causing more damage.

Half way through, Juliet had heard what Ethan had been saying and his words had been powerful enough to halt her in her tracks.

“Juliet took a part of me when she left.” Ethan's voice drifted to her. Juliet stood a few feet away but she could tell, even in the dark, that his entire body trembled and it had nothing to do with the weather.

For a few seconds, she allowed the implications of his words settle in her as she stood there. The longer she stood contemplating his words, the harder it became for her to stand. They were simple words but she felt the sheer sadness, grief and pain they carried and for the first time, she knew her actions had done more than hurt Ethan —they had nearly destroyed him.

All these months, she thought her disappearance meant next to nothing to Ethan. Perhaps he did miss her, perhaps he felt embarrassed by the fact that his wife had left him? But what Juliet hadn't been expecting was the raw pain she saw clearly in Ethan as he knelt before Gretchen. And in that second, she understood; Ethan was the real victim, he was the pawn and he was the loser.

Juliet might have been cajoled into the marriage, but she hadn't been forced. Ethan on the other hand, went into the marriage having no idea that he was being used. He married Juliet because he loved her and in her bid to get away from him, she nearly destroyed him.

Neither Lady Henrietta Hall nor Elaine Winston was a monster, but the true monster was Juliet —she wasn't the victim, she was the villain.

Her eyes had shifted briefly to Gretchen who still hadn't noticed her presence —they were two people who were so involved in each other's world, they failed to notice the woman who stood a few feet away in the darkness, barely able to move as she watched them.

For many weeks Juliet blamed Gretchen. She blamed Gretchen for taking Ethan's love away from her, and for trying to be her replacement. But as Juliet stood watching them, it felt like she was seeing Gretchen for the very first time. She no longer saw her as the replacement, she saw her as the one who had been able to fix the man Juliet had nearly destroyed. Gretchen was the one who had been willing to take the mess Juliet left behind and make it beautiful again. She took the man and the child Juliet left behind and she loved them; something Juliet had been too self-serving to do.

Juliet knew she had been wrong. She didn't know why it was only just occurring to her for the first time since she married Ethan, but she knew she was wrong. She might have despised Lady Hall but Juliet had done more damage than even Lady Hall was capable of, and she was done doing damages. She would fail to deliver the child to Lady Hall, she decided. While she had been anything but a mother to Elizabeth, she wanted to do something right by the child —leave her in the care of a mother and a father who loved her.