1. I SOLD MY BABY

🌹TESSA🌹“The documents are complete and all bills have been paid.”The man Raymond brought with him—I had decided he was a lawyer from the moment he walked in without introducing himself and opened his briefcase on the chair beside my bed like my hospital room was a conference table—slid the papers toward me without looking up.“Please sign here, Ms Hart.”I was still in the bed. They had not even given me a day. I had delivered this baby six hours ago and my body was still doing things I did not have the energy to think about and Raymond Reddington was standing at the foot of my bed in a suit watching me with the patience of someone who had somewhere else to be.I looked at the papers. Then I looked at my son in the plastic hospital bassinet beside me. He was asleep. His chest was rising and falling in that fast shallow way that newborns breathe that had terrified me the first time I noticed it until the nurse explained it was normal. I had spent the last six hours learning him. Th

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2. AND HE HAD A BROTHER

🌹TESSA🌹Ten months ago I was still Tessa Hart, billionaire heiress to the Hart Group of Companies.I was twenty-two years old and I still believed that if I was good enough, patient enough, quiet enough, the people around me would eventually see me the way I wanted to be seen. I still believed that love was something you earned through obedience and that if I just did everything right, someone would finally choose me.I was wrong about all of it.The day everything fell apart, I walked into Lucien's penthouse and found him in bed with another woman.He told me my body did not appeal to him.My mother told me to lose weight.My father told me my feelings did not matter.That night, I went to a club and met a man. He told me I was beautiful and the rest happened so fast.A month later, I found out I was pregnant. Before I could tell anyone, my fiancé found out and called off our engagement. And my parents disowned me for bringing shame to the family.I walked out of my family home wit

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3. THE LAST PAYCHECK

🌹TESSA🌹I wiped down the table for the third time, the damp cloth dragging in slow circles over the same spot of wood grain I had been staring at for the past five minutes.The bar was quiet for a Tuesday night, just a few regulars nursing their drinks at the counter and a couple in the corner who had not looked at each other in the last hour. I tucked the cloth into my apron and checked my watch. Another hour and a half and I could go home to Wayne. That was the only thought that kept me moving through nights like this, the only thing that made the aching in my feet bearable."Tessa."I turned and saw my manager standing at the end of the bar with his arms crossed over his chest. He never came out of his office during service hours. He never called anyone over unless something was wrong. My stomach tightened as I walked toward him."Can I see you in my office for a moment?" He did not wait for my answer. He just turned and walked toward the back, his footsteps heavy on the worn flo

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4. THE SON I LOST TWICE

🌹TESSA🌹I stood outside the gates for a long time before I pressed the buzzer.The house loomed behind the iron bars, all stone and glass and the kind of quiet that money bought. I had seen houses like this before. I had grown up in one. But that life felt like it belonged to someone else, some other girl who had not made the mistakes I had made.A voice crackled through the intercom. "Yes?""I'm here for the nanny interview," I said. "Tessa Hart."The gates swung open and I walked through them. I felt my hands shaking and I pressed them against my thighs to steady them. I had done this before. I had walked into interviews and smiled and pretended I was not desperate.I could do it again.The door opened before I reached it. A woman stood there, tall and slender with sharp features and eyes that swept over me like she was cataloguing everything she did not like. She wore a cream dress that probably cost more than my rent and her hair was pulled back in a way that looked effortless b

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All Chapters of HE PAID ME TO FORGET MY SON…NOW I WORK FOR HIM: Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

1. I SOLD MY BABY

2. AND HE HAD A BROTHER

3. THE LAST PAYCHECK

4. THE SON I LOST TWICE