The Substitute Wife's Secret Heir

Chapter 2

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darkness. The sprawling space was silent, save for the hum

ense of relief washed over her as

with light, and

ment was the faint red glow of a cigarillo between his fingers. The air

tablet across the marble coffee

Post. The headline was a punch to the gut: "MRS. HUDSON'

, on the terrace of a café yesterday afternoon. He was leaning in clo

she'd laughed too hard. A simple, friendly gesture. In

ngerous rumble. "Couldn't even wait for me t

ose in her throat and died. After the calculated cruelty in that resta

was his co

He was off the sofa, his hand clamping onto her

up. The fidelity clause.

gaze without flinching. "Our marriage was over th

wrong thi

anger, now burned with something

til the papers are

s. She struggled, but it was like fighting against a stone wa

cold. She knew

ld scramble away, he was on her, his weight pinning her down. One hand gripped the neckline of

she cried, her hands beating aga

is breath was hot against her ear. "Insane? You want to see what m

hment. A brutal, violent claiming

lling emptiness. She went limp, a broken doll,

a flicker of hesitation in his eyes. But it was q

s a liar. It reacted to her with a ferocious honesty that

and went into the en-suite bath

violated body. The tears came silently, hot tracks of shame

e her, why this despe

s later, wrapped in a plush white robe, his face o

ook at her

t room tomorrow. And stay away

e bedroom door shutting echoing the

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“On their third wedding anniversary, Elaina waited with an ultrasound report, ready to surprise her husband with the news of their baby. But Eleazar walked in with his long-lost first love and threw a divorce agreement on the table. "My condition has resolved. The terms of our contract are fulfilled." He coldly announced that his psychosomatic illness was cured, and her role as his living treatment plan was finally over. He kicked Elaina out of their master bedroom and falsely accused her of cheating based on a harmless paparazzi photo. When she was bedridden with a severe fever from walking in the freezing rain, he abandoned her to comfort his precious first love, merely sending an assistant to dump Elaina at the hospital. His first love even cornered her at a family gala, mocking Elaina as a pathetic substitute whose shelf life had expired. Elaina was left utterly humiliated and heartbroken, her three years of devotion treated like a transactional joke. But she couldn't understand. If she meant absolutely nothing to him, why did he violently claim her out of sheer jealousy? Why did he sneak into her hospital bed to hold her tightly in his sleep? And why did he furiously destroy the flowers another man brought her? Wiping her tears, Elaina quietly deleted the pregnancy report from her phone. Her despair hardened into cold, unbreakable resolve. She would play the perfect Mrs. Hudson, secure her family's wealth, and protect her secret child. When the time was right, she would take everything and disappear from his life forever.”