All Chapters of The Undesired Wife and Her Hidden Heir: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

Carter’s POVMy heart was hammering against my ribs so hard it felt like it would shatter.My hands wouldn’t stop shaking as I stared at the woman who had just come into my office, unable to believe my eyes.Maya… oh, my goodness! It was really her.Five years ... it had been five long years since that horrible night when she had literally disappeared from the surface of the earth.I had imagined every worst possible scenario.In fact, hardly a night had passed since then during which I didn't wonder where she could be, or if she was even still alive.Yet here she was, suddenly, sitting in my office as if no time had passed at all.She looked different ... but in the best way imaginable.Don't get me wrong, Maya had always been beautiful, but in a subdued kind of way.Now, however, she was absolutely breathtaking.Her beauty shone brightly and, along with the self-confidence radiating off her, left me speechless. And why wouldn't she be confident?She had just revealed to me that she

Maya's POVCarter flushed in utter humiliation and muttered quiet apologies to his staff."I'm so sorry. I'll deal with this immediately," he promised, bending his head and trying to reason with Brooke.There was no reasoning with her. Her fingers dug into his arm even more tightly, and she screamed in his face."I'm going to report you to your parents. Is that what you want? I'll tell them how badly you're treating me, the mother of your son."Ah, Carter's parents. They, especially his father, didn't like me because they thought I wasn't as beautiful as Brooke, and he wanted only the best for his son.Unfortunately for them, after Richard and Ashley threatened me to walk down the aisle in place of Brooke, Carter's father had no choice but to force him to go through with the wedding to save the family from disgrace.Now, Carter looked down at Brooke’s hand on his arm, and his face twisted in pure disgust.Hmmm ... So he was completely sick of her already?Interesting. I couldn’t blam

Brooke’s POV“Are you out of your mind, Brooke? How could you disgrace the family like that?” My father roared at me as soon as I entered the living room in our family estate.He didn’t scare me in the slightest bit.He and my mother needed me badly, after all.Over the past several months, they had made disastrous decisions that significantly harmed their once-thriving company.Now, they were relying on me to get money from Carter to help them get back on their feet.In other words, I held all the cards, so they had better treat me with respect, or else …“Calm down, pops. You’re going to give yourself a stroke.” I replied irritably.He yelled even louder. “Calm down?! You made Carter cancel the allowance that was our only steady cash flow!”“Okay, be my guest. Yell all you want, but I've got news you'd want to hear. Guess who I saw at Carter’s office today.”"Who?" My mother asked.I paused for dramatic effect. “Maya!”“Maya?” they chorused, the color draining from their faces.“Oh,

Maya's POV I stared out at the city skyline from my office window, lost in thought. My former family’s audacity knew no bounds, it seemed. “Read it again, slowly this time,” I told Lucas without turning around. He flipped through the folder in his hands, even though he probably already knew every word by heart. "Ashley plans to publicly accuse ‘M’ of intellectual property theft. She plans to do this in front of the press at the Heritage Gala. She aims to force us to hand over fifty-one percent of the brand to settle out of court." I nodded slowly. I had gotten the full information from Rosa, the Millers' old housekeeper. Rosa had worked in that house since before I was born. Growing up, Ashley would send me to bed without dinner more times than I could count. It was Rosa who secretly sneaked food up to my room after everyone else was asleep, at the risk of losing her job. She was the only person from that toxic household that I had ever trusted. After I got back, I secretly re

Brooke's POVI could literally feel the walls closing in on my family and me. I hadn't slept a wink since my parents’ confession the other night.My lack of sleep worsened after I saw Maya in Carter's office again.I was right. That bitch wanted him back; if not, why would she be sniffing around him all the time?It seemed like every other day, a new problem reared up its ugly head.This latest one had to do with the corrupt doctor my parents used to confine Juliet to the sanatorium.So this morning, Mom and I decided that we were done folding our arms and waiting for the axe to fall.We dressed up, and Mom drove us to the sanatorium where Juliet used to live.Neither of us spoke much on the way.The tension in the car was too great for conversation.I had been to the private clinic where Juliet was housed for twenty-five years quite several times over the years on behalf of my parents.Each time, I always came in through the back entrance, and always paid in cash.It wasn’t until the