Chapter 9 - The Wife's Defiance
"NO!" Jessi screamed, swinging her legs off the hospital bed and standing up on her trembling feet despite the pain in her abdomen. "I am not letting you trade your life for ours, Luca! We are a family! We built this together!"
She walked right past Wendy, stood beside Luca, and wrapped her arms around both him and baby Fiona.
"She thinks money makes her untouchable," Jessi said, looking directly into Wendy's cold eyes with an unyielding glare. "She thinks because she built this wing, she owns human beings. But she doesn't own us."
Wendy let out a cold, patronizing laugh. "A high school teacher with seven thousand dollars in her savings account trying to teach me about ownership? How touching. You have until 5 PM today to sign the papers, or my lawyers file the emergency petition."
Wendy turned on her heel and strode out of the maternity ward, her bodyguards falling in behind her, leaving the room in a heavy, suffocating silence.
Luca sank into a chair beside the bed, burying his face in his hands, weeping silently while holding Fiona against his lap.
"We can't win against her, Jessi..." Luca sobbed. "You don't know what she's capable of. She's ruined lives for far less."
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Jessi knelt beside him, wiping the tears from his cheeks. "She has money, Luca. But you have something she forgot you kept."
👉 Read PART 10 to discover the secret evidence Luca had kept for five years!
