With the bank president brought down and Lucca dragged into such a scandal, it was unlikely she would ever recover.
When Catherine saw the news, she was at the hospital caring for Channing. Although Bert had hired a personal nurse for him, Catherine still went to visit every morning, sometimes bringing breakfast along.
The breakfast she and Bert ate was always made by Bert himself. Catherine genuinely wanted to be a good wife one day—someone who prepared three carefully planned, nutritious meals a day. She was willing to do it. Yet ever since moving in with Bert, she had hardly ever stepped into the kitchen.
As for breakfast, she used to be someone who could wake up early. But because Bert was always so enthusiastic about what happened in bed at night, she rarely managed to get up early anymore, so breakfast naturally became his responsibility.
