All Chapters of CEO Wants Me: Heiress Has Risen Again!: Chapter 481 - Chapter 490

Rhea's Pov I hung up the phone and tossed it onto the phone holder. "Stupid," I hissed under my breath. "He really thinks he's winning. He really thinks I'm that weak to want to depend on someone like him. What a foolish man." I looked at Neveah in the rearview mirror. She was looking out the window, swinging her legs. "Put your seatbelt on, baby," I said. "We have to go." "Are we going back home?" she asked, pulling the strap across her chest. "Yes, baby. We don't have anything else to do out here.” I started the car and drove out of the parking lot. I wasn't going to meet Leon anywhere. I turned onto the main road. The traffic was light. I was driving for about five minutes when Neveah leaned forward. "Mommy?" "Yes, baby?" "That black car is playing follow the leader," she said in her sweet, childish voice. "It went into the left lane when you did. And now it's back in the right lane with us." My heart stopped for a second. I looked at the side mirror. A black SUV with tin

Rhea's Pov Maria nodded, her eyes glistening with unshed tears that seemed to hold decades of grief. "That is exactly what she did. Hillary grew up under so much maltreatment from her parents, especially from Sally. She was treated even worse than a servant in her own home. In the eyes of the world, the Taylors were a respectable family, but behind those closed doors, Hillary was not a human to them. She was forced to work, to hide when guests arrived, to be invisible. But despite all that, Hillary never became a dark person." A small, sad smile touched Maria's lips. It was a look of pure love. "She was the light itself. Anywhere she went, people loved her. She had this way of making everyone feel seen, even though she had been ignored her entire life. It was only her mother who refused to see the lovely child she had given birth to. Sally looked at her and saw a crime, but everyone else saw love from that child." I thought of Neveah, sitting in the car behind me. She was so much l

Rhea's Pov“Huh?!” I almost fell in response to Maria's words. I didn't say anything for at least ten seconds, my mind racing, waiting for her to tell me it was a joke. The air felt thin, and the silence of the road became deafening. I was shocked, not because I didn't think Sally was capable of such a thing, after all, from all what Maria said, it's clear how much of a bitch Sally is but rather, it was because of the sheer audacity of her hatred. She was the one who had engineered the situation, and yet she spent decades punishing the innocent result of her own crimes.“Sally was angry at Hillary all this while because her plan of tying Hillary's father to herself didn't work,” Maria said, her voice dripping with a mix of disgust and pity. “Sally had drugged him, thinking she could trap him in a scandal he could never escape. She forcefully slept with him and got pregnant immediately after. She thought she had won. She went to him, gloating about the child, but he was more stubborn a

Rhea's Pov “Don't believe her, okay. She's lying. You're such a lovely and awesome child, if anyone doesn't want you, then that's their loss. A lot of people love you.” I said softly, caressing her very soft hair. Neveah let out a giggle that immediately went through my heart, making me gasp softly. “I know that, mommy. You, daddy, Laziel, a lot of people love me! So I don't think about what that woman says any longer. But seeing Grandma and Grandpa, they must have come to warn you about her, right?” I smirked, ruffling Neveah's hair. “My baby is smart. But you don't need to worry about Sally, she can't hurt you and I won't let her.” “Okay, mommy.” Neveah said. I nodded firmly, kissing the top of Neveah’s head as I gathered her into my arms. After a long, warm soak, I rinsed the last of the soap from her small shoulders. Neveah was resilient, more than she should have to be at her age, but I could still see the faint traces of weariness in the droop of her eyelids."Bedtime, princ

Rhea's Pov. “You don't understand, Rhea. What Leon wants... is you. He wants to own and possess you. He wants to make you his. If you're with him, then… Things would go smoothly for him. Or so he thinks.” I felt a wave of nausea roll over me so intense that I had to close my eyes. "I don't understand," I whispered, my voice thick with disgust. "If we’re siblings, if we share the same blood, why on earth does Leon want to 'possess' me? We’re siblings, Jace! It’s sickening! It’s disgusting!"Jace’s voice remained unnervingly calm, devoid of the horror I was feeling. "You’re thinking in conventional terms, Rhea. In our world, in families like ours, things are... different. Power is preserved through blood. It’s not uncommon in some circles for cousins to marry to keep the lineage pure. It's about legacy, not just affection.""I don't care about your 'circles' or your 'lineages'!" I hissed, my hand tightening on the phone until my knuckles turned white. "It doesn't matter! Leon and I ar