The Scorned Heiress: No More Mercy novel Chapter 678

While she wouldn't be left homeless or destitute, the thought of living alone terrifies her. Deanna has been sheltered in a greenhouse her entire life, thoroughly accustomed to a life of pampered luxury and social adoration.

She simply cannot accept the reality of being a divorced woman. But the alternative—silently sharing her husband with a mistress—feels worse than death. It would be the ultimate humiliation. At every high-society luncheon, she constantly brags about her flawless marriage, and her friends envy her for having the only faithful husband in their circle. If the truth gets out, Charles might shrug it off, but she will never be able to show her face in public again.

"No. No one can know. It's been a secret for this long, it can stay a secret," Deanna mutters to herself, her eyes wild and frantic. She looks terrifying, teetering on the edge of a total psychological break. She convinces herself that if she keeps her mouth shut and the mistress doesn't push the issue, everything can go back to normal.

Just as she manages to force this fragile delusion into place, her phone buzzes with a new message.

It contains details about Jade's recent car accident. When Jade was hospitalized, a country woman came to visit her, claiming they bonded while Jade was working on her agricultural project in the rural province. But the report reveals the truth: the country woman was a fake. It was Jovani in disguise! The same woman who owns the matching earring. The same woman from the banquet.

"Why does Jade have a connection to that woman?" Deanna's mind races, the implications growing more horrifying by the second. A sickening dread coils in her stomach.

Then, her eyes land on the final document in the envelope. A DNA report.

The words on the page detonate like a bomb in her mind. The test confirms that Jovani is Jade's biological mother. And even worse—Charles is Jade's biological father!

Deanna's lungs seize. She crumples to the floor, completely paralyzed by the betrayal.

Deanna's mind is a white-hot void of static. Her entire reality has imploded. She can't even form the words to explain the absolute devastation to her sons.

"It's over... it's all over. Our family is destroyed," she babbles, her eyes unfocused. "How could this happen? Why? It has to be a mistake. A misunderstanding!"

Seeing their usually poised, elegant mother reduced to a rambling, incoherent mess terrifies the brothers. Deanna has always been the picture of grace and composure in the elite social scene. This level of raw hysteria is deeply alarming.

Jake and Nikolai exchange a grim, anxious look.