The True Heiress, His Worst Nightmare のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 1 - チャプター 10

"You'll seduce my brother whenever I'm away on business, right?" he spat, his face close to mine, his eyes burning with something I had never seen in them before. Not in three years of marriage. "You're such a whore!"_______________________I was almost due.That was the first thing on my mind as I dragged myself back from the market that afternoon. My legs were swollen, my back felt like it would snap in two, and every step came with a dull ache that travelled from my waist down to my ankles. Today was our wedding anniversary.I adjusted the bags in my hands and climbed the short steps into the house slowly, breathing carefully, the way the doctor had instructed me to during the last trimester. One hand found the railing. One step at a time."My child," I whispered, pausing midway to rest. "Today is Mommy and Daddy's wedding anniversary."The baby shifted inside me, a slow, rolling movement that made me catch my breath. I smiled despite the discomfort, despite the heat clinging

I remember the ceiling lights flashing above me.White. Bright. Blinding.Everything smelled of antiseptic and fear. My body felt heavy, like I was sinking into something deep and dark. Voices floated around me, urgent and overlapping, but they sounded far away, as though I was hearing them from underwater.I was being wheeled into the hospital.The stretcher moved quickly, the wheels making a sharp, hurried sound against the smooth floor. Someone held an IV bag above me. Someone else called out numbers I couldn't understand. My fingers felt cold. My stomach was on fire. The pain had changed somewhere between the floor of that house and here. It was no longer just sharp, it was deep, tearing, frightening. The kind of pain that tells you something irreversible is happening."Doctor…" I called weakly. My voice barely came out.I lifted my hand slowly, struggling to keep it raised. My fingers brushed against the doctor's coat as she moved beside the stretcher, and I forced myself to

CURTIS’ POV“Look at what that bitch did!” Rosa barked, slapping the sheet of paper against the glass center table so hard that the sound echoed across the sitting room.I had been seating right beside her, buried in deep, sad thoughts. But the sharp crack of paper against glass pulled me back. I turned slowly.She held the document in her hand like it was a weapon. The veins on her neck were standing out. Her lips trembled from rage. “It just came in this morning,” she continued, breathing heavily. “After everything we did for her. After everything you did for her.”I stretched out my hand without saying a word.She placed the paper in my palm.The paternity test result.For a moment, I didn’t look at it. My fingers felt stiff, like they didn’t belong to me. My eyes burned from nights without sleep, from grief I had not even processed. I swallowed and forced myself to look down.The words swam at first.Probability of paternity: 0%.I blinked.Read it again.0%.My jaw tightened.

The ride felt unreal.Tessa sat quietly in the back seat of the black SUV, and her hands resting weakly on her lap. The city passed by outside the tinted window, but she barely noticed it. Her mind kept drifting back to the cemetery… to the moment Curtis had poured her son’s ashes onto the ground… to the cold water washing everything away.Her chest tightened again, but no tears came this time.She had cried everything out already.The car slowed down gradually before coming to a smooth stop.Tessa blinked faintly as her attention returned.They had arrived.Before she could react, the man sitting in the front seat stepped down quickly and walked around to her side. He opened the door respectfully and stood aside.Tessa hesitated for a second, then slowly stepped out.The ground beneath her feet felt strange, like she wasn’t fully present.The man bowed slightly at her, his posture straight and respectful.“Please,” he said softly.Tessa didn’t respond. She simply nodded faintly and

The silence that followed Tessa’s words was heavy, thick enough to suffocate anyone standing in that hall. No one expected her to show up, let alone stand there so boldly, facing Curtis and Lauren without a trace of fear. For a brief moment, the entire event felt like it had been hijacked, the attention no longer on Ecofel or the grand presentation, but on the woman everyone thought had been completely destroyed.Curtis was the first to move.His expression darkened as he stepped down from the stage, his strides long and filled with suppressed anger. Each step carried weight, the kind that made the guests instinctively shift out of his way. His eyes never left Tessa, and the closer he got, the tighter his jaw became.When he finally stood in front of her, the air between them turned cold.“You should leave now,” he said sternly, his voice low but sharp enough to cut through the silence.Without waiting for a response, he reached for her hand, intending to drag her out himself. Bu