Dumping My Ex to Flash Marry the Untouchable CEO novel Chapter 1787

Grace also believed that anyone with a bit of sense would stand on her side.

She simply never imagined Tessa would actually do something like this.

Not long ago, Tessa had sworn that she would never act this way.

Yet now, she had betrayed her without hesitation.

The truth was, Tessa wasn’t her biological child at all.

She was the daughter Sean had with his late lover.

When Sean lost the woman he adored, he fell into a long depression. The child was pitiful, with no one to care for her, and nearly ended up in an orphanage.

At the time, Grace never intended to get involved. After all, Tessa was the daughter of Sean and the woman he loved—a child who belonged to her love rival.

But when Grace saw how much Tessa resembled Sean, she couldn’t harden her heart.

In the end, she took the child into the Walton family.

Because William knew exactly where Tessa came from, he was furious.

That was when the fights between them began. Back then, Grace’s whole world revolved around Sean.

She didn’t care what anyone else thought, not even William.

Sometimes, Grace even treated Tessa with deliberate affection in front of William, while being harsh toward Aurora on purpose.

Because of that, William felt even more deeply let down by her.

He had never imagined that the woman he married with such sincerity would treat his own daughter so coldly.

All her tenderness was reserved for someone else’s child.

Thinking back, William had found Grace utterly unreasonable.

The man who once carried himself with such confidence and fire now looked hollow, drained of spirit.

Grace couldn’t understand how someone so brilliant could fall apart like this over a woman—reduced to a shadow of who he used to be.

The thought pained her, and when she looked at the child left behind, her heart wavered again.

Back then, Grace had been proud and stubborn, and she fought constantly with William.

“This is my decision. What does it have to do with you?”

Grace scoffed. “No matter what you say, I’m raising this child. And I’m not using a cent of the Walton family’s money.”

William pressed a hand to his chest, breath catching from the anger.

“Fine. You’re really something.”

He drew in a sharp breath. “I know you’ve never been satisfied with me, but Aurora is innocent. Why would you be so cruel to a child?”