The Heiress's Unseen Revenge

The Heiress's Unseen Revenge

Er Duo

5.0
Comment(s)
420
View
22
Chapters

I was Ella Cash, a ballerina who gave up everything for Damien Wolfe, believing his philosophy that love should be free and untethered. I thought our love was superior, purer than any vow or ring could make it. Then, I overheard him on the balcony of his penthouse, talking to a friend. "Of course I'm going to marry her. Kiersten is the only one for me." He called me a "placeholder," dismissing our two years together. My world shattered. Every loving gesture, every whispered promise, every shared dream-it was all a lie. He left me standing there, rushing off to Kiersten, who was crying in Central Park. There, I heard the ultimate betrayal: "I never loved Ella. I pursued her for you. I needed her to carry our child so you wouldn't have to put your career on hold." The baby I miscarried wasn't ours; it was Kiersten's, conceived with a donor's sperm. I was just a vessel, an unwitting surrogate. To add insult to injury, I learned I was the real Bentley heiress, a truth Damien and Kiersten conspired to hide to protect her inheritance. They even tried to kill me, pushing me into a pool, with Damien choosing to save her over me.

The Heiress's Unseen Revenge Chapter 1

I was Ella Cash, a ballerina who gave up everything for Damien Wolfe, believing his philosophy that love should be free and untethered. I thought our love was superior, purer than any vow or ring could make it.

Then, I overheard him on the balcony of his penthouse, talking to a friend. "Of course I'm going to marry her. Kiersten is the only one for me." He called me a "placeholder," dismissing our two years together.

My world shattered. Every loving gesture, every whispered promise, every shared dream-it was all a lie. He left me standing there, rushing off to Kiersten, who was crying in Central Park.

There, I heard the ultimate betrayal: "I never loved Ella. I pursued her for you. I needed her to carry our child so you wouldn't have to put your career on hold." The baby I miscarried wasn't ours; it was Kiersten's, conceived with a donor's sperm.

I was just a vessel, an unwitting surrogate. To add insult to injury, I learned I was the real Bentley heiress, a truth Damien and Kiersten conspired to hide to protect her inheritance.

They even tried to kill me, pushing me into a pool, with Damien choosing to save her over me.

Chapter 1

Damien Wolfe didn't believe in marriage.

He said it was a contract, a piece of paper that stifled true connection. Love, he claimed, should be free and untethered.

I believed him.

I was Ella Cash, a ballerina on the cusp of a career at the American Ballet Theatre. I gave it all up for him. I internalized his philosophy, making it my own. Our love was superior, I thought, purer than any vow or ring could make it.

I had been in Boston for a week, visiting an old mentor from my foster care days. I finished my visit two days early and decided to fly back to New York to surprise him. I pictured the look on his face, the slow smile spreading across his lips when he saw me standing at the door.

The party was in full swing at his penthouse. Music spilled out into the hallway as I let myself in with my key. I navigated through the crowd, looking for him. I found him on the balcony, his back to me, talking to a friend. I smiled, ready to wrap my arms around his waist.

Then I heard his words, carried on the cool night air.

"Of course I'm going to marry her. Kiersten is the only one for me."

My feet froze to the marble floor. My surprise died in my throat.

The friend chuckled. "What about the little dancer, Ella? You've been with her for two years. Everyone thinks you're serious."

Damien's voice was dismissive, cold. "Ella? She's just a placeholder. Kiersten and I have had this understanding since we were kids. It was always going to be her."

"So what's the plan?" the friend asked. "You can't just dump Ella. It'll look bad."

"Don't worry," Damien said, and his voice was laced with a chilling arrogance. "She's served her purpose. She knows her place. She won't make a scene."

My heart felt like it had stopped. The blood drained from my face, and a buzzing started in my ears. The sounds of the party faded into a dull roar.

I couldn't breathe. Every loving gesture, every whispered promise, every shared dream-it was all a lie. A carefully constructed performance.

My whole body started to shake. The glass of champagne I'd picked up on my way in slipped from my numb fingers and shattered on the floor. The sound was loud in the sudden silence of my world.

I struggled to make sense of it. The man who held me at night, who told me I was his world, who convinced me to give up my future for our future-he was a stranger.

Just then, his phone rang, a sharp, intrusive sound.

He answered it, his tone instantly changing. It was soft, full of a desperate emotion I had never heard from him before.

"Kiersten? What's wrong? Where are you?"

There was a pause. I could hear the faint, frantic sound of a woman's voice on the other end.

"Don't do anything stupid," Damien said, his voice tight with panic. "Stay right there. I'm coming. I'm coming right now."

He hung up and turned, his face a mask of pure terror. He was going to run, to chase after her, the real object of his affection.

He didn't see me at first. He just started moving, pushing past his friend.

"Damien," I managed to whisper, my voice cracking.

He finally noticed me. He barely glanced at my face, his eyes already focused on the door. He bumped into me, shoving me aside without a second thought. My shoulder hit the doorframe, a sharp, physical pain that was nothing compared to the agony in my chest.

"Sorry," he muttered, a distracted, meaningless word. He didn't stop. He didn't look back.

His entire being was focused on one thing: getting to Kiersten.

His friend looked from Damien's retreating back to my shattered expression. He stepped toward me, a look of pity on his face. "Ella, are you okay?"

I tried to pull myself together, to build a wall around the gaping wound in my heart.

"I'm fine," I said, the lie tasting like ash in my mouth. "I just remembered I left something at my friend's place. I need to go back."

I forced my legs to move, to walk away with some semblance of dignity. I walked out of the penthouse, out of the life I thought was mine.

The elevator doors closed, and the mask I was wearing crumbled.

I slid down the wall, burying my face in my hands as a wave of gut-wrenching sobs tore through me. The cold, sterile hallway became the witness to the complete and utter destruction of my world.

Continue Reading

Other books by Er Duo

More
The Mafia Don's Regret: She Is Gone Forever

The Mafia Don's Regret: She Is Gone Forever

Mafia

5.0

I carried the first word I had spoken in ten years like a sacred offering, ready to surprise the man who had saved my life. But through the crack in the study door, I heard Josiah tell his Underboss that I was nothing but a noose around his neck. "Grace is a burden," he said, his voice cold. "I can't become Don while babysitting a mute ghost. Lexi brings power. Grace brings nothing but silence." He chose to marry the Mafia Princess for her father's trade routes, dismissing me as wreckage. But the true betrayal didn't happen in that office. It happened in the woods during an ambush. With bullets flying and the mud sliding beneath us into a ravine, Josiah had to make a choice. I was injured, trapped at the bottom. Lexi was screaming on the ridge. He looked at me, mouthed "I'm sorry," and turned his back. He hauled Lexi to safety to secure his alliance. He left me to die alone in the freezing mud. I lay there in the dark, realizing the man who swore a blood oath to protect me had traded my life for a political seat. He thought the silence would finally swallow me whole. He was wrong. I crawled out of that grave and vanished from his world completely. Three years later, I returned to the city, not as his broken ward, but as a world-renowned artist. When Josiah showed up at my gallery, looking shattered and begging for forgiveness, I didn't sign. I looked him dead in the eye and spoke. "The girl who loved you died in that ravine, Josiah."

The Billionaire's Asset: Cashing Out Freedom

The Billionaire's Asset: Cashing Out Freedom

Modern

5.0

I spent three years acting as a high-end manufacturing plant for the Snyder dynasty, waiting for the day I could finally break my golden cage. Today, I slid the postnuptial amendment across the desk, trading my marriage for fifty million dollars and a chance to breathe again. I thought I was free the moment the elevator doors closed. But while I was at a club celebrating my "asset liquidation" with champagne and silk blindfolds, the Snyder empire was falling apart. My grandfather-in-law had a heart attack the second he heard I was gone, and he refused the surgery that would save his life unless I was the one to authorize it. Claudius didn't send a lawyer to bring me back; he came himself. He burst into my private VIP suite like a predator, his eyes cold enough to freeze the room. He saw the models, the drinks, and the blindfold, and he instantly assumed I was selling my dignity at a discount just hours after leaving him. He didn't care about the truth or the papers I’d already signed. He kicked the cameras out of his cousin’s hands, cleared the room with a single look of death, and hauled me over his shoulder like a sack of grain in front of everyone. To him, I wasn't a woman or a wife; I was a critical piece of hardware that had gone rogue. "The separation is paused," he growled, pinning me against the leather seats of his Maybach as the child locks clicked into place. I stared at the bite mark I’d just left on his thumb, realizing that in the world of the Snyders, even a signed exit strategy was just another contract he was willing to break. This wasn't the end of my marriage; it was the start of a much more dangerous game.

When Family Becomes The Enemy

When Family Becomes The Enemy

Modern

5.0

"A daughter should never marry better than her family, Sarah. It's a simple truth." My adoptive father, Mr. Miller, laid down the law every night, telling me my only job was to be grateful and listen to his "guidance." Then, a week later, my successful boyfriend, Michael, came to dinner, flowers in hand. My father, who had just fawned over my brother Kevin's wealthy girlfriend, turned ice-cold. "Get out of my house," he snarled at Michael, shaming me and driving him away. Hours later, the nightmare escalated. My father, drunk and enraged, announced he had already arranged my marriage to Leo, a man I barely knew. When I refused, he lunged across the table and struck me. I fled, humiliated and betrayed, only to have my father ambush me at work the next day with Leo. He publicly announced our "engagement," turning my professional life into a circus. Michael walked in on the chaos, and the trust in his eyes vanished. He left, unable to handle the "chaos." My own family, including my mother, then blamed me for everything, even after my brother physically assaulted me. They demanded I fix their problems, clean up their mess. How could my own family do this? What twisted logic allowed them to treat me like property, to sabotage my life at every turn, while showering their biological son with privilege? Why was I, the dutiful daughter, always the one punished? Their cruelty, their endless demands, transformed my despair into a cold, hard rage. I saw their game, and I decided then and there: if I couldn't fight them head-on, I would dismantle their power from the inside. They wanted a pawn? Fine. They were about to get a queen.

You'll also like

One Night With The Wrong Brother

One Night With The Wrong Brother

Tangye Wanzi
5.0

I thought I was waking up in the arms of Arthur, the man I loved. But as the morning light hit the Hamptons estate, the man buttoning his cuffs by the window turned around with eyes like chips of ice. It was Augustus Riddle, Arthur’s cruel younger brother, and I had just spent the night whispering confessions of love into the wrong man's ear. The night I thought was a beautiful beginning turned into a devastating nightmare. Instead of comfort, Gus treated me like a stain on his expensive carpet, scribbling a check for "services rendered" before shoving me into a dark service corridor to hide my existence from his brother. "How much does it cost to buy your silence?" He sneered, before leaving me barefoot in a torrential downpour while he drove away in a luxury Cadillac. Four years later, I am a struggling actress in Los Angeles, working double shifts as a barista just to keep the lights on. My life was finally stable until my roommate dragged me to a high-end dinner to meet her new "influential" boyfriend. The man sitting at the table, looking more arrogant and lethal than ever, was Augustus. He spent the entire night humiliating me, calling me a pathetic amateur and a social climber in front of my only friends. When I fled into the rain and collapsed on the sidewalk, skinning my knee until I bled, he watched from his car. He saw me clutching a plastic baggie containing the taped-together pieces of that four-year-old check—the only proof of my shame. He looked at me like roadkill, rolled up his window, and drove off into the dark. I couldn't understand why he was doing this. Why did he hate me enough to crush me, yet remember that I couldn't handle the smell of cigarette smoke? Why did he leave me bleeding in the street, only to send expensive medical supplies and coffee to my door the very next morning? "I'm moving out." I told my roommates, realizing that Gus Riddle didn't just want to destroy me; he wanted to haunt me. I grabbed my suitcase and walked out with eighty dollars to my name, finally ready to disappear into the city before he could burn the rest of my life to the ground.

Chapters
Read Now
Download Book
The Heiress's Unseen Revenge The Heiress's Unseen Revenge Er Duo Romance
“I was Ella Cash, a ballerina who gave up everything for Damien Wolfe, believing his philosophy that love should be free and untethered. I thought our love was superior, purer than any vow or ring could make it. Then, I overheard him on the balcony of his penthouse, talking to a friend. "Of course I'm going to marry her. Kiersten is the only one for me." He called me a "placeholder," dismissing our two years together. My world shattered. Every loving gesture, every whispered promise, every shared dream-it was all a lie. He left me standing there, rushing off to Kiersten, who was crying in Central Park. There, I heard the ultimate betrayal: "I never loved Ella. I pursued her for you. I needed her to carry our child so you wouldn't have to put your career on hold." The baby I miscarried wasn't ours; it was Kiersten's, conceived with a donor's sperm. I was just a vessel, an unwitting surrogate. To add insult to injury, I learned I was the real Bentley heiress, a truth Damien and Kiersten conspired to hide to protect her inheritance. They even tried to kill me, pushing me into a pool, with Damien choosing to save her over me.”
1

Chapter 1

22/08/2025

2

Chapter 2

22/08/2025

3

Chapter 3

22/08/2025

4

Chapter 4

22/08/2025

5

Chapter 5

22/08/2025

6

Chapter 6

22/08/2025

7

Chapter 7

22/08/2025

8

Chapter 8

22/08/2025

9

Chapter 9

22/08/2025

10

Chapter 10

22/08/2025

11

Chapter 11

22/08/2025

12

Chapter 12

22/08/2025

13

Chapter 13

22/08/2025

14

Chapter 14

22/08/2025

15

Chapter 15

22/08/2025

16

Chapter 16

22/08/2025

17

Chapter 17

22/08/2025

18

Chapter 18

22/08/2025

19

Chapter 19

22/08/2025

20

Chapter 20

22/08/2025

21

Chapter 21

22/08/2025

22

Chapter 22

22/08/2025