All Chapters of His Nemesis, Her Heartbreak: Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

Ophelia’s POV:“Ma–ma?”The voice was fragile, barely a whisper, yet it acted like a bolt of lightning through my spine. I jolted upright, nearly knocking the stool over. My heart hammered against my ribs.I blinked away the blurriness of exhaustion, my eyes darting to the corner of the room. This wasn't even a proper bedroom; only a cot and a few shelves in a carpeted white room where Raymond allowed me to sleep with our daughter on the "occasions" he deemed me too irritating to be in the master bedroom.The only light in the room came from a single lamp perched on the edge of what I was forced to call a "desk." It was, in reality, nothing more than a rickety wooden stool and a makeshift side table I had scavenged from the attic. My neck ached from where I had been dozing off over stacks of paperwork.I had begged him for a proper desk, a place to manage the freelance translations I did to keep a few secret pennies in my pocket. But to Raymond, every request was an act of war. To him

Ophelia’s POV:I curled into myself, my knees hitting the hard floor with a dull thud. My fingers went limp, and for a terrifying heartbeat, Ria slipped from my grasp. I scrambled to pull her back against me even as the world spun."It hurts... it hurts..." I whimpered, the words lost in the roaring of my own blood.Raymond looked down at me, his blue eyes burning with a cold light. He didn't look like a man who had just severed his family; he looked like a man who had finally cleaned a stain off his rug."Don’t worry though," he began, his voice dropping to a low, mocking drawl. "I know you are too weak to survive out there. I won’t throw you out of the house just yet. You’ll stay here. You’ll stay as my side bitch, and you’ll watch in regret as I marry someone else. Someone worthy of the Vorthas name."He sneered, the corner of his lip curling in a way that made my stomach churn. "Because the one who is actually weak here is you, Ophelia. Look at you. Kneeling in front of me, sobbin