Imprisoned While Pregnant, She's Back for Payback novel Chapter 351

Chapter 351 Amused Tess

Chapter 351 Amused Tess

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Tess yanked hard, but Shannon’s grip was unyielding, clinging to the folder as though her life. depended on it.

“Hm?”

Tess’s brows drew together as her eyes cut toward Shannon. The softness in Shannon’s face had melted away, replaced by a shadowy look full of venom.

“Give those to me.”

Her words came out jagged, each syllable pressed hard between her teeth. The final notes grinded like a threat meant to slice the air.

Tess folded her arms across her chest, tilting her head, her gaze cool and unhurried. “Do you really believe I went to all this effort, sent people to track you, gathered all these photos, just to wave them at you as a scare?”

Her tone dripped with calm certainty. “Take this set if you want it. It means nothing. I have plenty of copies.”

Her lips curved faintly, lashes lowering with a slow, delicate flutter. Yet to Shannon, it felt like claws raking across her skin, setting her nerves ablaze.

“You’re nothing like that foolish mother you had. You’re far more cunning.”

Shannon spat the words through clenched teeth. Her grip trembled, and at last her hand slackened, letting the folder fall away.

Tess gave a quiet laugh. “I cut ties with her long ago. But neither of us could ever be cruel enough to fake a death and slip a secret daughter into her father’s house as his ward. You’ve shown me a masterclass in cunning.”

Her mocking tone lashed out, and Shannon’s face drained to a sickly gray.

Her body quivered, her knees buckling as she collapsed into Henry’s arms the moment he

rushed in.

“What’s happening here? Why are you two…

”

grown restless when Shannon failed to return. He had brought their child with Henry had him, only to stumble straight into Tess‘ sharp words.

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A glint flickered in Shannon’s eyes, but her face crumpled with pitiful tears. “Henry, we hurt Kylie, what we did all those years ago. When I saw Tess today, I only wanted to apologize.”

Her voice broke, her sobs hitching. “But Tess has every right to hate us.”

Henry’s chest burned with fire. All he saw was the fragile woman trembling in his arms, and it tore at him.

He stroked her hair, his voice low and tender. “Shannon, Kylie was never innocent. If not for her, you and I would have been married long ago. You would never have had to suffer in silence without a name. You were too kind. This was their wrong, not yours.”

Henry turned on Tess then, his eyes cold, his voice cutting like steel. “I knew you were trouble the moment you showed up. Apologize to Shannon right now.”

He held Shannon tighter against him, his face hard with authority.

Tess laughed, the sound sharp, mocking.

Ever since they seized Kylie’s shares, they no longer bothered to hide.

“Apologize?” Tess’s smile twisted, her finger pointing toward Shannon. “Why don’t you tell him what you just saw for yourself?”

She slipped the folder into her bag with careful ease, unmoved by Henry’s growing rage.

His jaw clenched as her indifference scraped against his pride, but the unease in her words struck him even harder.

His glare whipped toward Shannon, his voice rough. “What did she mean?”

“She had people tailing me. She took photos. She even filmed us!”

Shannon burrowed deeper into his chest, her voice trembling with practiced fear.

Henry’s expression shifted in an instant.

“Tess, what are you trying to do?”

The sound scraped out raw, sending dread up his spine. The sensation slithered like icy spiders sinking into his skin.

His eyes locked on Tess, as if he could tear through her calm and find the truth underneath.

His first instinct was disbelief.

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He had hidden Shannon so carefully. How could Tess know? Yet the tremble in Shannon’s shoulders beneath his hand chilled him to the bone.

Kaleb hovered nearby, confusion in his eyes. However, he caught the subtle look his mother sent him. It was a silent signal passed in a breath.

Tess swung her bag onto her shoulder and turned for the door. Then a sudden rush of air brushed her legs, and a hand latched tight onto her bag.

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