Strangers When We Meet Again

Ruby was brought into the Quinn house as a foster daughter, and the betrothal she wanted belonged to Aurora Quinn. The day before the wedding Aurora rode out to fetch a protective charm for her father, and bandits took her on the road and beat her. Her father and her brother had hired them, so that the match with Lord Anthony Grant would break and pass to Ruby instead, and Ruby had paid the bandits on her own account to make sure Aurora was hurt badly. Aurora had been raised in the palace as Crown Princess of the dynasty. She had come back to the Quinn house to be with the father and the brother she was born to, and to see whether they loved her. Her father told her she was no daughter of his. Blood taken from Aurora's own heart went into the medicine that saved her father and her brother, and Ruby was given the credit for it. Aurora was put out of the house. She learned about the bandits by chance. On the wedding day she laid out what her family and Ruby had done and named herself as Crown Princess. The Emperor and Lord Anthony Grant took her side, and Ruby's part in it was opened up in front of everyone.