The Heiress Returns
"I've been through heartbreak, and I don't desire love. Even if I marry you, I won't give you love." Lisa stared pointedly at him, " Are you okay with this, President Joseph?"
"Then...Let's sign a one-year contract. If after one year we still don't find ourselves compatible, we break it off."
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The Heiress, Lisa Morgan came back home after an ultimate betrayal from her husband of three years, but her father wouldn't let her into his home unless she agreed to his condition.
"Take over the company and marry Joseph Bronson, or leave and never come back again!"
As a woman who only cares about survival right now, her choice was obvious but she never expected the turbulence that came after.
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Chapter 3
Chapter 3
"You're a disgrace to the Morgan family! Get out!"
Lisa stood in front of her father with her head bowed low as she listened to him rage.
She didn't say a word no matter how she was insulted. She wasn't a kid anymore and life had taught her patience. The young her, had been so arrogant, hot-headed and did things according to her belief but now...
"I wouldn't listen to a word she says! Ask her to leave my home!" Her father yelled, then turned around, "Guards!" He roared and in no time, the guards who had been positioned in hidden places rushed out to take orders.
Lisa looked at her father with a pale face, her fist clenched behind her dress, and her eyes glared at him, but she remained silent.
Her father, Reed, turned to look at her and sneered seeing her stubborn self, he pointed at her and commanded, "Throw her out of my house!"
The air in the room froze until the gentle woman who seemed like she was about to cry spread her arms in front of Lisa which surprised her.
This woman was the person she hated the most but she didn't think she would be the one to fight for her at her most helpless, but when she thought about it, her eyes flashed with mockery.
"Pretender!" she muttered under her breath but continued to watch the woman stop the guards from coming close to her.
Her father, Reed Morgan felt a headache as he looked at his wife, he gritted his teeth but when he saw the same indifferent look on Lisa's face, he grew more determined to chase her out.
"Get away from that ungrateful girl, Lauren! She doesn't even appreciate you. Just look at her face! Look at her expression. She deserves to be treated wrongly by that poor man she ran away with, idiot!" He raged even more, then reached out to pull his wife away from Lisa, then signalled the guards to do their jobs.
"Let me go!" Lisa cried out as the guards pulled her.
"We're sorry, young miss.." One of the guards apologised guiltily.
"What young Miss?! She is not my daughter! I disowned her long ago!" Her father roared again, then pulled Lauren who was still fighting and begging them to let Lisa go.
Lisa looked at her father as she was pulled out, she glared at him, then calmed down and said, "You'll have no choice but to later let me in, Father." then she didn't fight the guards anymore and allowed them drag her out.
Lisa knelt in front of the Morgans' family's entrance.
She was determined to let her father let her go in. If he wouldn't accept it easily, then she would go hard on him. She knew her father so well and was very familiar with his pride and arrogance. He hated to see his reputation tarnished and that is what she was targeting.
She had purposely knelt in an obvious place where outsiders would see her. This mountain estate is a place for the most wealthy and powerful people in the country and in the whole mountain, only 10 families have houses here.
She knew her father wouldn't want the other family to see her kneeling on the floor as it would be a big embarrassment to him.
And Lisa was right.
At this moment, her father was seething with rage as he watched Lisa through the camera, he wished he could go down there to beat her up.
He gritted his teeth and glared at the figure that looked like it was about to break kneeling under the hot sun.
"Can you see her?! She did this on purpose, she's trying to provoke me! Darn that girl!" He complained to his wife angrily and pointed at Lisa's image on the screen.
Lauren on her own knew how stubborn both daughter and father were, and none of them would give in to each other if she didn't do something about it.
And true enough, Father Morgan hit the table with his palm, "If she thinks she would make me take her back by doing this, then I would prove her wrong!" He roared, then stood up and walked away leaving Lauren looking at his back with a sarcastic expression.
"Stubborn man!"
Lisa knelt on the ground stubbornly and no matter how the sun beat her and how hungry or tasty she was, she never stood up.
She could still remember the lawyer's words.
"For the sake of your mother."
She closed her eyes tightly, and when she opened her eyes, determination flashed through them.
She had made a decision to put her pride behind her and come back home after being persuaded by the wise reasons of Lawyer Simmy, and had come straight to the Morgan family when she dropped from the plane.
An hour later when Lisa was about to collapse, she felt someone hug her gently.
"Lets go in! Don't mind your father, he wouldn't dare do anything with me around." A gentle voice whispered into Lisa's ears jolting her.
She raised her head to see that it was Lauren, her stepmother.
Her eyes flashed with surprise, but she clenched her fist to keep herself from pushing her away.
"What do you mean? Did my father allow me in?" Lisa asked in surprise but Lauren shook her head.
"Just follow me." She said confidently then walked in with Lisa staggering behind her.
They both got into the house and paused seeing Reed sitting on the couch with a calm expression.
Lisa watched Lauren do her thing. Hugged and wiggled in his arms as she tried to placate him while Lisa watched with an indifferent expression which irked her father but he could do nothing.
After a while, her father looked at her and then burst out in laughter, "So...That poor boy cheated on you?"
Lina looked at her father in speechlessness. She gritted her teeth and glared at him for him to stop but he continued to taunt her about her wrong steps.
After a while, he turned serious, then looked at her with a cold expression which made the room turn dreadful.
"I can allow you back into the family, but..." He paused and stood up from the couch.
Lisa grew tense as she waited for him to make his demands.
"You have two options," he said again, his face deadly serious.
Lisa's heart skipped a beat and she swallowed nervously. "What do you want?!" She asked.
"Take over the company!" He said which startled Lisa. She parted her lips to say something, but he raised his hand to stop her.
"Don't lie to me. I know that while you were studying that course, you were also taking business management with it and you have your certificate. You can't fool me!"
Lisa froze at her father's words, she looked at him in shock, then turned calm again.
"Okay!" She said firmly.
"Leave the family or you have to marry the fiancé chosen for you, Joseph Bronson!"
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7.8
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8.3
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When I divorced him, I did it quietly.
No confrontation. No tears. No warning.
He signed the papers without reading them.
Everyone still called me the CEO's wife-
until the day I returned, no longer his woman,
but someone he could no longer touch.
Now he's chasing me.
Regretting me.
Begging for a second chance.
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And this time, if he wants me back,
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8.2
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"I am divorcing you, Carl."
8.0
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"look at me," He growled, grasped my chin, and cover his lips upon me.
"Sign the marriage contract, right now!"