After I found out I was pregnant, my husband, Adrian Blackwood, had his bodyguards drag his younger brother Julian out of a private club and back to the family townhouse in Manhattan. Then he told him coldly,
“Name the child she’s carrying.”
Julian lounged on the sofa, a careless grin on his face.
“Let’s call it Little Bastard. The cheap ones are always hardier.”
Vanessa Reed laughed.
“Julian, that’s awful. Who names their own child something like that?”
My heart stopped.
“What do you mean by that?”
Only then did Adrian turn to me.
“On our wedding day, I was with Vanessa. Julian was the one who went to the bridal suite, pretending to be me.”
“Every time after that, it was him.”
“The child you’re carrying is his.”
A violent buzzing filled my ears.
He Deceived Me So I Destroyed His Family’s Legacy Chapter 28 On the third day, Vanessa took the stand. She wore a plain gray suit, her face scrubbed of makeup. The diamond bracelet that had once glittered on her wrist had been seized along with the family’s other assets. She passed Adrian
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He Deceived Me So I Destroyed His Family’s Legacy Chapter 26 That afternoon, Adrian’s lawyer called me to the stand. “When you left the estate, you took a large quantity of prescription medication with you, correct?” “Yes.” “And when Mr. Julian Blackwood died, his room was locked from the inside, and his phone was missing.”
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He Deceived Me So I Destroyed His Family’s Legacy Chapter 27 Every admission that followed, every threat that followed, came from Adrian himself. “They were just a few worthless lives.” “Those people are dead. They can’t cause any more trouble.” “And then we’ll see if she has the shame to keep on living.” When the
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He Deceived Me So I Destroyed His Family’s Legacy Chapter 25 The defense lawyer objected at once. The judge instructed Lily to answer only from her direct experience. She nodded. The prosecutor placed the medication records in front of her. Her name was there, along with dates and dosages. Every line matched the bottles we
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He Deceived Me So I Destroyed His Family’s Legacy Chapter 24 The next day, Adrian’s lawyer did exactly as I’d expected and went after Lily. “Miss Hale, you were on sedative prescriptions for a long period of time, correct?” “Yes.” “And you experienced confusion so severe that you didn’t even recognize your own sister?” Lily’s
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He Deceived Me So I Destroyed His Family’s Legacy Chapter 23 And every time she was even a little lucid, Julian would appear. Those things had once been the chains used to hold her down. Now, they would be laid out before a jury. The day before the trial, we returned to Manhattan. The old
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He Deceived Me So I Destroyed His Family’s Legacy Chapter 22 Lily looked at the notice, the bottle in her hand clicking softly against the counter. “Nora.” “I got one too.” I looked up. She pulled a neatly folded sheet of paper from her apron pocket. Her name was first on the witness list. I
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He Deceived Me So I Destroyed His Family’s Legacy Chapter 21 The doctor came out too, holding the chart he had just filled out. “This child has a persistent high fever and old bruises on his body.” “If you take him back today and he dies, will you take responsibility for that?” The man faltered,
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He Deceived Me So I Destroyed His Family’s Legacy Chapter 20 “Come inside first.” But the woman didn’t move. She kept looking back toward the main street as if a monster were chasing her. “My husband’s family is coming.” “They said even if the child dies, they won’t let me get away.” “They said they
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He Deceived Me So I Destroyed His Family’s Legacy Chapter 19 That day, Adrian was taken away in handcuffs by NYPD detectives. Vanessa clung to his leg, crying, then turned and implicated Mrs. Blackwood and the house manager. Overnight, the Blackwood family fell into chaos. The rot they had hidden beneath a veneer of good
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