Chapter 6
Chapter 6
The following days, Jessica didn’t return to that so-called “home.”
Until a phone call shattered this brief peace.
It was Zhang Ma, the Anderson family maid, her voice trembling with urgency.
“Madam… you must come back immediately!
That photo of your parents…”
Jessica’s heart clenched-it was the only surviving picture of her mom and dad.
An hour later, Jessica stood inside Anderson Manor House.
The living room layout had changed.
Replaced with gaudy European extravagance favored by Anna, vulgar and ostentatious.
Anna sat directing servants to change curtains,
her champagne silk nightgown draping over a slightly rounded abdomen.
Spotting Jessica, surprise flickered in her eyes.
Then it melted into naked provocation.
“Oh, sister’s back?”
Her gaze lingered on a faint red mark at Jessica’s neck, smile deepening.
Jessica ignored her, striding toward the second-floor study.
The photo album once on the bookshelf was gone. A charred metal basin lay discarded in the corner.
The acrid stench of burning still hung in the air.
Jessica’s blood turned to ice.
She knelt, trembling fingers brushing the cold ashes-
her father, her mother, her last tangible connection.
Anna leaned against the doorway, arms crossed, looking down.
“Sister, stop looking.”
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“Just cleared some old junk taking up space.”
“William agreed we should declutter for the new baby.”
Each word hammered Jessica’s heart like a chisel.
She rose slowly,
bloodshot eyes locking onto Anna.
Just then, William returned.
He frowned at Jessica kneeling on the floor.
“You finally decided to come back?”
“Where have you been these days?
Ignoring calls and texts-what do you take our family for?”
Jessica stared at him.
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Memories flashed: William holding her tenderly, promising he’d be her only family. That face bore no resemblance to the man before her.
“William.”
She stood. “Let’s divorce.”
Without another glance, she turned to leave.
The finality in her eyes stabbed William.
He grabbed her arm instinctively.
“Jessica! Stop right there!”
She shook him off without looking back.
The following days, William went utterly mad.
Jessica had vanished like mist.
He realized-this woman he’d long stopped loving could unravel his entire world so easily.
“That Roberts playboy is getting engaged?”
“Who’d dare marry that philanderer?”
Another socialite in the VIP lounge asked curiously.
“Who knows? William, any idea?”
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“Who cares?” William scowled, his irritation over Jessica unrestrained even during leisure.
“Look,” the friend who spotted Jose’s update nudged him, offering the phone.
As William pushed it away, his eyes caught Jose’s new post-
a photo resting on someone’s thigh.
Under Jose was a corner of a familiar woman’s nightgown.
William’s pupils abruptly contracted.
That nightgown was the one he had given to Jessica.
The location was a private club he had never heard of.
Rage and jealousy instantly shattered all his reason.
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Chapter 7
“Bang-!”
