Chapter 1: Heart wrenching Betrayal

CHELLEY KENSINGTON They told me I was pregnant the same morning they told me my mother was dead. I sat on the cold examination table holding the paper with my trembling fingers as the other hand pressed to my flat belly like it might keep me from floating away. I was still trying to wrap my head around it, the two pink faint lines that meant hope and finally a future.After three years of silence from my womb, three years of scorns and humiliation from my husband, my adoptive parents and sister Cierra, three years of pitiful stares from the workers in my father's company, his legacy... which he left for me alongside signing me up for adoption to my current adoptive parents to take care of me because he divorced my mother years back.The impossible finally happened, I was pregnant. Now I would hold my baby and the world would see that I'm not barren. I thought I'd run home to laughter when I'd share this news with my husband and my family, that my husband would finally; for the fir

Last Updated : 2025-08-02

Chapter 2: A Vow of Revenge

CHELLEY KENSINGTON “What? What did you say just now?” I asked desperately, My heart exploding, hurting and bleeding internally, I couldn’t breathe.“I’m pregnant, two weeks pregnant sister, I’m merely doing you a favour” Cierra said, “Favour is sleeping with my husband?” My voice broke, that my hands were visibly shivering. “Oh please, Sister Chelley,” Cierra said with a roll of her eyes, still perched on the edge of the bed,“Don’t act surprised. You were practically begging him to cheat. Always moping around, crying over your living corpse of a mother, refusing to give Alec Kensington a real family. I just… stepped in to clean up the emotional mess you made. You should be thanking me.”I staggered back a step, then another. My legs were trembling. The room tilted. I reached for the doorframe, missed; and slammed into the wall. Still, nobody moved. Not even Alec.He just stood there, naked, smug, pulling up his pants like nothing had just happened, “I told you once, Chelley,”

Last Updated : 2025-08-08

Chapter 3: The Will Clause

CASSIAN MORETTI The polished obsidian wall reflected the gleam of chrome inside the boardroom, the long mahogany table stretched endlessly, and at its head, I sat with a seething barely concealed. Across from me sat eleven men, all grey-haired, stiffed jaws, they are retired judges, senior lawyers, and corporate watchdogs who had once bowed to my father. Now, they are my biggest obstacles, they strongly guard my father’s 30 trillion dollars worth of fortune that is legitimately mine as the heir of the Moretti family.Because I don’t have a family anymore! I’m being denied. And who controls these witless old men now? It is my father’s legal concubine, Lady Claudia Moretti, in white, not a single hair out of place, wearing a pearl necklace that once belonged to my dead mother… She didn’t flinch under my stern gaze; she only gave me a cold confident smile. On her left was her 28 years old son Luca, the illegitimate son of the Moretti family, pretending to be part of a legacy h

Last Updated : 2025-08-08

Chapter 4: Postpartum Psychosis

CHELLEY I thought Alec Kensington’s torment will end with him walking out of the detention center after wrecking my entire world. I thought I’d go back to sell the remaining thing I had left, which is my father’s estate and start all over again… but…Just as I walked out of the women’s detention center, the bright sunlight shone on my eyes, so blinding; I haven’t seen or felt the sun for a whole week, I breathed in the fresh breeze not the stench of the prison. But it was all cut short as a strong arm grabbed me from behind and suffocated me with a pungent substance in an handkerchief, I slowly lost consciousness and drifted into darkness afterward. Silence. ….I slowly opened my eyes. I’d been asleep for so long I’d lost track. The mattress felt soft as a cloud, and the ceiling above was high, detailed, and… expensive-looking. Not the usual modern kind of rich, but that rare mix of old architecture with ultra-modern touches, the kind of luxury you don’t see often.I sat up in th

Last Updated : 2025-08-13

Chapter 5: The Old Enemies

CASSIAN MORETTI Three years had passed, That’s how long I’ve kept this new mask in place. To everyone else, my life is the picture of success. A new fiancé, Another son, Asher Moretti. A family portrait so good the media eats it up, except there’s no picture to print about my “fiancé” who prefers her privacy, or so I’ve told them. No one had ever seen her, no one knows her, and that’s exactly how I’ve designed it. But the truth? There is no fiancé, there is no wife and I’m keeping it that way. I’ve been living inside a mausoleum of my own making.Donna and Jade. My wife and son and my mother, They were my life, the only three people I ever allowed past the walls I built. And I buried them; no, I lost them in a firestorm of a jet crash seven years ago. One moment they were there, laughing in the cabin before takeoff; and the next, the world told me their bodies were unrecognizable, my world ended that instance. I’ve never forgiven myself for not being on that flight, even th