All Chapters of The True Heiress, His Worst Nightmare: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

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Chapter 1: Shattered Vows

"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

Chapter 2: Cruel Intrusion

“Tessa.”The voice came from the entrance just after Rosa stormed out.I was still on the floor, my back throbbing, my throat burning from where Curtis had gripped me. I turned slowly, blinking through tears.Lauren Dean was standing there.She walked in like she owned the house. Like she had every right to be there. Her heels clicked confidently against the tiles, her chin slightly raised, her lips curved in a small, mocking smile. Her hands were folded across her chest, calm and composed, as if she had just stepped into a friendly gathering.“You’ve taken explicit photos with others,” she said, tilting her head. “Why are you still here?”Her voice dripped with sarcasm.I swallowed, struggling to sit up properly. My waist felt like it had been crushed. I used my palm to support myself against the floor.“Lauren… what are you doing here?” I asked.Even as I spoke, memories flashed through my mind.Three years ago, before Curtis and I got married, before this house became my home, Ros

Chapter 3: A Choice

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

Chapter 4: Broken Trust

I stared at Curtis like I was looking at a stranger.The man standing before me was not the same man who once held my hands and promised to protect me from the world. His face was calm, almost indifferent, as he bent slightly toward me.“Tessa, you crashed into the coffee table yourself and had a miscarriage,” he said, his voice steady, like he was explaining something simple to a child. “What right do you have to blame Lauren?”For a moment, I forgot how to breathe.I searched his eyes, hoping to find even a small trace of doubt. A flicker of uncertainty. Anything that showed he was confused and not fully convinced.There was nothing.Only coldness.“She pushed me towards the coffee table,” I said again, trying to keep my voice steady even though my chest was shaking. My throat still felt dry from crying. “Curtis, she pushed me.”I looked up at him desperately. “Why won’t you believe me? Why did you believe her?”My gaze shifted to Lauren.She stood slightly behind him, looking comp

Chapter 5: Shattered Ashes

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.

Chapter 6: The Ashes of Cruelty

Tessa lifted her hands instinctively, her fingers trembling as they stretched into the air like she could still catch something that mattered. The ashes fell steadily from the box Curtis held above her, soft and grey, drifting down onto her hair, her face, her lips, her shoulders. For a moment, she didn’t even breathe. Her eyes widened, her mouth parted in disbelief, and then the reality hit her all at once.“No…” she gasped, her voice cracking under the weight of it.Her hands moved frantically, trying to gather the ashes before they touched the ground, before they disappeared. But they slipped through her fingers, light and merciless, scattering across the earth beneath her knees. Her chest tightened painfully, and a broken sob escaped her throat.“My baby…” she whispered, her voice shaking.She bent forward, ignoring the ache in her body, and began to scoop at the ground, her fingers digging into the soil as she tried to gather what she could. But it was useless. The ashes sp

Chapter 7: The Heiress Returns

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

Chapter 8: The Return of Truth

“Mr. Deveraux, Mrs. Deveraux went missing at the cemetery.”The assistant’s voice was careful, measured, as though he already knew the weight of what he was about to say.Curtis stood at the side of the grand hall, a glass of wine held loosely in his hand. The liquid inside hadn’t moved. He hadn’t taken a sip since it was handed to him. His gaze was fixed ahead, cold and distant, like nothing around him truly mattered.“And today… we received divorce papers,” the assistant added.There was a brief silence.Curtis didn’t respond immediately. His expression didn’t change either. He simply stood there, his jaw slightly tightened, his eyes steady and unreadable.Inside him, however, something shifted.‘Tessa…’The name echoed quietly in his mind, heavy with something he refused to acknowledge.‘Divorcing me won’t spare you.’His grip on the glass tightened slightly, but that was the only sign that the words had affected him at all.“Curtis.”Lauren’s voice cut in softly, yet it carried

Chapter 9: A Demand for Justice

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

Chapter 10: The Power Shift

The tension in the hall had not eased since the manager’s strange response. If anything, it had grown heavier, like the air itself was waiting for something bigger to happen. The guests, who had come for a celebration, were now completely invested in the unfolding drama. No one spoke openly anymore, but their eyes moved constantly, watching every expression, every movement, trying to understand who truly held power in that room.At the center of it all sat Tessa.She had taken a seat on one of the large couches as though she belonged there, her back straight, one leg crossed over the other. Her posture was calm, controlled, and completely different from the woman who had once begged and cried in front of Curtis. There was no trace of desperation in her now. Instead, there was authority, quiet, but undeniable.“Who said they wanted to kick me out?” she asked.Her voice was steady, but it carried enough weight to silence the whispers around the hall.Curtis turned sharply toward he

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