Love In Disguise: Rebirth of the Heiress
Chapter 106

Chapter 106: Chapter 106

"I love you, Ethan. I never meant to hurt you. Please, let me make amends. I’ll do anything." But his face hardened, his mouth sealed, his dark eyes looking anything like the loving eyes that once woke me up with a smile. This made me gulp in fear, my heart was beating so fast in my chest that it felt choking.

"You love me?" He laughed, shaking his head. "Unbelievable."

My heart sank, and with tears in my eyes I continued, "Ethan, I can change. I’ll be better, I promise, I will be more quiet if that’s what you want. Don’t cast me away like this. I can’t bear to lose you."

He did not say anything, instead, he glanced at his security personnel, "Take her things, burn them, and lock her up in her room and deal with her as you see fit." Terror gripped me as the guards approached, their hands ready to seize me.

"No, Ethan, please! I beg you, have mercy!" I cried out, but his expression remained cold and unforgiving.

"Please...don’t hurt me, I beg you." He wasn’t saying anything, his eyes were cold and burning with fury.

"Please say something...please..." I choked out. The room felt like a scorching inferno against my flesh. I was going to combust from the pain that was boiling inside of me. My heart, it hurts.

"Do you believe I would still welcome you after you chose to harm my child?"

"Ethan, I swear I had no involvement in it. I would never inflict harm upon your child or anyone else. Remember, I accepted that you are free to have another child with another woman. I always have. Why would I harm her now?" My heart raced as I fumbled over my words, desperation clinging to each syllable

His eyes bore into mine, skepticism etched on his face. "Words can’t erase the accusations against you, Daniella. Aurora started throwing up yesterday and bleeding profusely, and you were the only one near her. The evidence points to you, you know she was allergic to peanuts and yet you gave them to her."

I looked at Aurora silently pleading with my eyes so she would talk some sense into Ethan, but she stood there with her smug smile, her eyes red from crying. She knew what she was doing, and I was stupid to think I could ever trust her.

"She’s lying, Ethan. She’s just trying to save herself. It was so unexpected to have her come to my room on Monday night with fruits, now see. If the baby dies...oh my," she started crying her crocodile tears again.

I bit my lips, enough to draw blood. Why did I even think Aurora would help me? She hated me, to the core. "I was nowhere near anything you ate. I never did hurt you, you were the one who came to my room with fruits, why are you lying, Aurora?"

"Give me one reason why I shouldn’t believe Aurora," Ethan demanded, his voice cold and detached.

I took a deep breath, desperation fueling my words. "Because, Ethan, you know me. You know my heart. I would never harm your child or any child. Aurora has always been jealous and always sought to undermine us. This is her revenge, tearing us apart."

Aurora’s eyes widened, feigning innocence. "I loved you both, but I never wanted to see Daniella hurt. She’s framing me because she can’t bear the guilt."

I grabbed Ethan’s arm, pleading with him. "Ethan, please listen to me. Don’t let Aurora’s lies destroy us."

He yanked his arm away, his eyes burning with anger. "Your lies have no place here, Daniella. I’ve lost trust in you, in us."

I felt like a broken mirror, shattered into a thousand pieces. My knee throbbed from the endless scraping, and my eyes and head ached from crying. The courtroom guards watched with a mixture of awe and disdain, some pointing fingers and calling me a murderer.

But I knew the truth. Aurora had never been innocent, with her charming smile and innocent face. She had a way of manipulating people, making them believe her lies. And now, she was using that charm to destroy me, to tear us apart.

Aurora had the charm that every girl wished to have, an innocent face, tall, beautiful, and a voice that could make one call on their knees.

Ever since Aurora was born, death followed her. My mother died when she was giving birth to her, my father died as well and now she was stealing the man that I have loved for years. The man I gave up everything for.

My birthright to my grandparents’ company, my life, my body had become wrinkled, looked older than my age because of depression.

I wasn’t able to give him a child, I was useless according to his words. I gave up my happiness to be with him.

Now here I was begging for my innocence. Hoping he would consider me his wife, and the mother to his child he would consider.

Yes, I was pregnant, but no one believed me. No one cares. Not when I told them I was six months pregnant but it just didn’t show as a six months belly should.

No one wants to believe the forgotten heiress.

I did not give up easily and decided to use my last card.

I crawled towards Ethan, holding his hand, "I am pregnant, Ethan, with your child. Can’t you consider--"

"Shut up!" Ethan yelled, pushing me away from him. I stumbled, my belly barely missing the floor. His eyes, once filled with love, now held only contempt.

The weight of his rejection settled into the core of my being as I realized that even the mention of our child could not bridge the hole that had formed between us.

"I know your game, Daniella. You think you can use a child to manipulate me, to escape the consequences of your actions," he spat out, his words like shards of glass cutting through the fragile threads of hope I clung to.