My Billionaire Husband Lost His Perfect Wife Overnight Chapter 02

My Billionaire Husband Lost His Perfect Wife Overnight Chapter 02

Everett froze, his expression instantly darkening. 

Tessa, I know it’s the hormones talking. You don’t mean that.” 

I’ll pretend I didn’t hear it. Get some rest. The doctor’s 

confirming the baby’s sex–we’re doing the reveal at the estate tomorrow.” 

He slammed the door hard enough to rattle the walls. 

I swallowed hard, picked up my phone, and called my lawyer. 

I need you to draft a divorce settlement. As soon as possible.” 

I showed up at the Ashford estate the next morning, belly heavy, nerves raw. 

Everett and Vanessa were already there. 

Vanessa stood to greet me, her smile perfectly measured. 

I was at the office late last night, so I asked Mr. Ashford to 

stay and keep me company.” She tilted her head. “You’re not 

upset about that, are you?” 

I pulled my hand free and found a seat as far from Everett as the room allowed. 

Everett’s expression soured, looking like he wanted to speak but holding back. 

Everett’s mother, the family matriarch, took the sealed 

envelope from the doctor herself. 

She opened it in front of everyone. 

“It’s a girl.” 

The Ashford women immediately began whispering among themselves. 

“We all thought she was carrying the heir. It’s just a girl.” 

“A girl, and she’s already acting entitled, demanding this, 

spending that. She’s probably just using the baby to milk the family for money.” 

Let’s see how long she lasts now.” 

Everett’s face went cold. 

“Girl or not, she’s still my flesh and blood. Not one of you gets to gossip about her.” 

The room went silent. 

But his mother walked straight up to me, her mouth set in a thin line.! 

Since this baby can’t inherit the Ashford holdings, you’ll 

need to pay back everything we’ve spent.” 

“The trust allocations for boys and girls are different. It’s been in the agreement from day one.” 

My fist tightened in my lap. A dull ache pierced my chest. 

To me, boys and girls are exactly the same.” 

Everett grabbed my arm and pulled me close. His voice was low, sharp. 

“Watch your attitude.” 

“Those are the rules. Every cent comes back.” 

He nodded at Vanessa to pull up the bills from the last seven months. 

The nonrefundable deposit for the elite private maternity. suite. 

Premium prenatal vitamins. 

Seven checkups. 

Vanessa put on her professional smile, 

“No offense, but a woman needs her own income. Depend on 

a man for everything and eventually you become a burden.” 

She held out a tablet displaying the wire transfer details. 

The total comes to $308,000, Mrs. Ashford. We accept direct. wire transfers.” 

They wanted every penny back because my baby was a girl. 

How utterly absurd. 

I didn’t move. 

Everett’s brow creased. 

“You’re not getting out of this. The agreement and the 

prenatal report are both notarized. If you want someone to 

blame, blame yourself for not giving us a boy.” 

When he first found out I was pregnant, he cried. 

His hands were shaking, and he couldn’t stop smiling, like a kid on Christmas morning. 

Now, just because it was a girl, his attitude had done a complete one–eighty. 

The whispers pressed in from every direction. 

The baby shifted inside me, and a sharp cramp tore through my stomach. 

grabbed the wall. My knees almost gave out. 

Everett started toward me, but Vanessa’s scream cut through. the room first. 

“Mr. Ashford, my dad… he’s having a heart attack. I need 

money for his emergency out–of–network surgery right now, please, I have to…” 

“I’ll go with you. Put it on my card.” 

He grabbed his coat and was gone. 

Sweat soaked through my clothes. I reached out, calling for someone, anyone. 

His mother walked out with the rest of them. 

Not one of them looked back. 

The family physician was the only one who stayed. He kept me stable until the pain passed. 

was about to call a cab to my grandparents‘ house when my phone rang. 

My grandfather’s name was on the screen, and I already knew something was wrong. 

“Tessa, someone trashed the farm! They destroyed the entire 

harvest; they just destroyed everything, right there in the fields!”