Love At The Right Price

Chapter 1 Illegitimate Child

man’s movements. At last, she fainted, unable to take it anymore.Tamara slowly opened her eyes the next morning. The unnatural pain between her legs reminded her of last night’s events. The man was already gone. She was the only one left here. But this didn’t affect her good mood at all. A sweet smile appeared on her lips. Last night, on her engagement day, she had given herself to Evan Hardy, her most beloved.Thump! All of a sudden, the door swung open forcefully. Evan was dressed in a suit, looking as handsome as ever.“Where did you go, Evan?” she called out sweetly.Upon saying that, Evan’s younger sister, Lily Hardy, immediately emerged from behind him. She was an adopted daughter of the Hardy Family.“Tamara, was the gigolo I gifted you good in bed?”A condescending remark. Tamara’s happy expression promptly froze in place. “What do you mean?” Unease crept through her heart.Lily smugly took a step forward and held Evan’s hand. Her red lips gently parted. “Evan was with me the whole time. The man who was with you last night was a sugar baby that we picked carefully. He was someone that countless women have hired, a lowly sugar baby! Aren’t you someone who thinks herself better than others, Tamara? How is it? How does it feel to have slept with a sex worker?”Tamara’s eyes slowly widened. Her grief threatened to break her apart as her nails dug deeply into the sheets below her. “How could you two do this to me?”Evan was pleased by Tamara’s pained voice. He stepped forward and wrapped his hand around her neck before he opened his mouth to cruelly push her down further. “My cruelty toward you is not even half of what your father did to my parents. If it hadn’t been for your father, would my parents have died? My entire family is dead because of your father! Did you think that I would love you? I feel repulsed just by touching you for a moment! You’re disgusting!”Each one of those words stabbed Tamara’s heart like a volley of arrows. She denied it vehemently. “Impossible! My father has always been so nice to you. He gave you everything and anything. How could he have hurt your family?”Evan’s laugh was demented. “Your father, nice to me? In order to force me to marry you, he caused Lily to miscarry. That baby was my first child!”Tamara smiled bitterly. Her eyes were wet with tears. Child? Lily’s baby was his? So, this twisted pair were already in league with each other long ago. And I was the only one being so stupidly lied to. She trusted Evan unhesitatingly, and she even praised Evan in front of her father, telling him how nice and capable Evan was.Evan smoothed out the wrinkles in his suit before looking at her hatefully. Then, he smiled elegantly. “I have even more surprising news: your father died last night. I have already bought out Randall Industries. Everything that Randall Industries owns is in my hands. If it wasn’t for my wish to torture you, I would have already sent you to meet your maker last night along with your father!”Tamara’s eyes were bloodshot as she charged over shamelessly and threw a slap at Evan’s face. She wept as she howled in fury. “You animal! You’re inhuman!”Evan exploded from being slapped. He slapped her back, his hand landing right on Tamara’s face, and her cheek instantly swelled, reddened from the hit. Enraged, he sneered. “Get her to a mental facility and lock her up. She’s not to leave the facility ever again.”Tamara had no idea how long she had spent inside the mental facility. From the nurses’ idle gossip, she found out that Randall Industries had gone bankrupt, and her nude photos had spread like wildfire. Everyone spat at her—she had such an excellent man for a husband, and yet she cheated on him, making her father so angry that he died.All of Evan’s wrongdoings were blamed on her instead.Suddenly, someone shouted from outside, “Fire! There’s a fire!”Soon, thick smoke seeped into the room through the windows.“Evan and Lily Hardy, I curse you two to die a painful death!” Tamara’s eyes were filled with hatred as she