Imprisoned While Pregnant, She's Back for Payback novel Chapter 330

Chapter 330 Layla is Your Daughter

“Tess, are you blaming me?”

Finn took a step forward. Tess instantly backed away as if he carried the plague, putting distance between them.

Suddenly, a gulf of empty space opened up between them, and Finn’s expression turned even colder.

“If you hadn’t stolen Lock Group’s secrets back then, I never would have sent you to prison.”

He swallowed hard. “You spent a year in jail, then came out with a baby no one could explain. Tess, have I ever thrown that in your face?”

His arm trembled slightly.

At the mention of Layla, Tess’s eyes instantly turned bloodshot with anger.

“What did you say?”

She rushed forward, grabbing Finn by the collar.

Did he really just call Layla an illegitimate child?

How dare he?

Tess’s sudden outburst left Finn stunned. He tried to calm her, but she slapped him hard across the face.

Smack!

The sharp slap echoed loudly through the still air.

Finn stood frozen, his right cheek tingling and burning.

Tess glared at him, like she could burn a hole right through him.

“Finn, Layla is your daughter.”

Now that their divorce was certain, there was no point in hiding Layla’s identity anymore.

“What?

Finn’s eyes went wide in shock.

Seeing the disbelief on Finn’s face, most of Tess’s anger melted away, replaced by a rush of satisfaction.

“You forced yourself on me that one time. I got pregnant. That’s all it was.”

Her words echoed in the air, and Finn’s body shook violently.

“What?”

His voice was trembling, filled with disbelief and pain.

Tess got pregnant before? Then Layla is …

Every doubt in his mind vanished, but all that was left was the pain of realization.

“Why…”

His voice was hoarse and low, overflowing with regret and confusion.

Finn’s eyes were bloodshot as he grabbed Tess’s wrist. “Why didn’t you ever tell me Layla was my daughter?”

When Tess had come back to Evermount Villa, he’d had Zane look into everything she went through after getting out of prison.

Tess looked at him coldly, her head slightly bowed in a show of icy contempt.

“So you knew I suffered, and you knew Layla suffered too, but you did nothing–just because you thought she wasn’t your child.”

A sense of absurdity washed over Tess.

She was filled with a sense of bitter irony.

This is so ridiculous that it’s almost funny.

“Finn, you don’t deserve to be Layla’s father. Not just because you forced yourself on me, because you’re cold, heartless, and arrogant.”

If Finn had trusted her even a little, she wouldn’t have spent a year pregnant and alone in prison.

With everything that had happened, he was the last person who had any right to judge her.

“It’s not true… It’s not like that, Tess.”

Finn’s lips trembled. For someone usually so calm and distant, he looked completely devastated.

He reached for Tess, but she dodged his hand.

A year ago, I still had hope for you. I really believed that if I tried hard enough, you’d finally see my worth.”

Tess’s voice lingered in the air, thin as mist.

Finn stood frozen, panic surging in his chest.

“You …”