From Heartbreak to Happily Ever After

Chapter 528

Debra ripped off the fragile veil of Melody’s pretense.

Melody fell silent, and Hester was enraged.

*Is what she said true? You did all of this? You knew from the start that the person who entered my room wasn’t Juan. You set me up,” she shouted.

Melody responded only with cold impatience, “You lack skills and have only yourself to blame.”

The words pierced Hester’s heart like a knife. She had trusted Melody, believing that winning Juan’s affection would eventually lead to a future by his side. But now, it has become clear. Melody had seen her as nothing more than a pawn, discarding her when she was no longer useful.

“It’s all because of you!”

fury, Hester lunged forward. Melody took a fearful step back, her usual composure slipping. Hester had the knife at Melody’s throat, trembling with the intensity of her emotions. For the first time, genuine fear flickered across

doing? Have you lost your

lost my mind. You drove me to

desperation. Stripped of her chastity, she had come here looking for answers,

not be as powerful as the Nichols family, but she had still been a pampered heiress, unaccustomed to

been sweet–natured, but Melody had exploited her weaknesses, never treating

the

voice cut through the tense air like a command, but to Hester, it

had loved Juan from the moment she first laid eyes on him. When Melody approached her with the prospect of

been a fool to think Juan would ever love her. Once, she would have treated Juan’s every word as gospel. But now, all she wanted

me. You allowed some stranger to take away my chastity while I foolishly believed I could marry you. Do you feel accomplished, using people like

more deliberately at Melody, inching closer. Debra saw a reflection of her past