The Disabled Heiress, My Ex-husband Would Pay Dearly. Novels & Stories

"Well there are things you have to settle to that husband of yours." "Ex- husband grandma. Scores to settle such as...?" "Are you forgetting your inheritance. It belongs to you. You have the right to claim it. The house that your father left you. It's all in your name." "But are you forgetting that I nearly lost my children when he make sure that I won't survive after he force me to leave his home." "You were vulnerable then Sweetie but now you have emerge as one of the successful and influencial business woman." "One that he can trample on when he will realized that I survived that accident he orchestrated hiding behind my true identity."

"She's lost it! This woman's completely lost it!" Everyone stared at me like I had lost my mind. "What did she just say? She gave the wedding money to the driver who hit her fiance? Did the shock scramble her brain?" "Who does something like that? Henry must have the worst luck alive. He lost his leg saving someone, and his fiancee handed the money to the person who caused the accident!" Dad rushed onto the stage and slapped me across the face. The sharp crack echoed through the entire room.

Noemie cut in with a sneer. “What ‘proud’? What ‘illustrious’? That's all in the past. Now he’s nothing but a crippled loser.” Her voice dripped with disdain. “It’s obvious from how he’s been hiding away since the accident that his downfall has already begun.” For a fleeting moment, I glanced at her. It was almost... baffling. That such words could come from someone who once claimed she couldn’t live without him. Someone who had revolved her entire existence around him.

“So now that he’s broke, he thinks he can leave his ex to pay for everything he enjoyed?” “What a mess…” “Disgusting.” “Even if she’s in a wheelchair, he can’t treat her like that. It’s not like she chose to be disabled.” “Men always do that—pick women like they’re accessories.” Caelen’s face twisted as the murmurs grew louder. “It wasn’t like that!” he shouted at the crowd. Then he turned back to me, eyes wild. “Do this for me, and we’ll call it even, Kiva. Otherwise, don’t think this is over. I’ll come after you for every cent I invested in you these past few years.”

My mind refused the information, the way it sometimes refused impossible numbers on a financial report before the details resolved into something comprehensible. A photograph. Amelia, walking down the steps of a building I recognized instantly as Hart Global Headquarters, standing beside an elderly man I recognized just as quickly as Edmund Hart. Beside it, smaller, an old photograph from our wedding day. And above both images, in bold black letters that seemed to grow larger the longer I stared at them, a headline that made absolutely no sense standing next to everything I thought I understood about the woman I had been married to for three years. ‘THE HIDDEN HEIRESS OF HART GLOBAL HAS RETU

The man. Another woman’s voice came from the phone, clear enough for me to hear. “Well, apparently the man is severely disabled... Even though he is a billionaire, his family wants this settled quickly.” I frowned. Disabled? Settled? “What kind of family pays that much for a marriage?” Victoria asked. Marriage? My fingers tightened around the edge of the doorframe. Victoria spoke again. “You know what? After hearing that number...” A pause. “Tell them I found the perfect girl.”

Her Ex mother-in-law said in an understanding voice. Lia took a deep breath. 'He explains it already huh? Her husband?' Lia just shook her head while hearing what Ethan's mother said. "T-thanks for understanding me, Mom." Lia only responded because she had nothing more to say. "It's okay, darling. You know I miss you so much. Will you please come as early as you can? You and Ethan? I bought something for you, darling. I know, you will like my gift to you." Lia's ex-in-law excitedly said it to her.