Back from the Dead The Billionaire's Wife He Should Never Have Betrayed1
All of Harbor City had witnessed Ivor Sanchez's obsession with Jocelyn Henson.
They were supposed to be sworn enemies, heirs to a blood feud that spanned generations. Instead, he'd climbed to the rooftop of the Sanchez estate and threatened to jump, gambling his own life until every last member of the Sanchez family bowed their heads and accepted her as his bride.
On the day of their wedding, ten miles of red carpet unfurled across Harbor City. Every business under the Sanchez Group had Jocelyn Henson's name added to its registry. Even the master keys to the Sanchez estate were handed over to her without a moment's hesitation.
After the wedding, Ivor Sanchez became something even more extreme: a man who orbited his wife like a man possessed.
When a branch family member dared mock her background behind closed doors, he flipped the table on the spot and stripped them of every share they held. Then he put out the word: anyone who made his wife unhappy would disappear from Harbor City entirely.
The man they called the Devil Sanchez, the name that made all of Harbor City tremble, had nothing left but boundless tenderness in Jocelyn Henson's presence.
Three years passed with no child. Ivor weathered a tidal wave of pressure from the family and publicly declared he would rather have no heir at all than put her through IVF.
In the end, it was Jocelyn who begged him, tears streaming down her face, saying she wanted to give him a baby. Only then did Ivor relent, staying by her side through every grueling step of the process.
The day the embryo transfer succeeded, he held her in the hospital room and cried for a long time.
Jocelyn believed those were tears of joy. She believed that decades of enmity between their families had finally been erased by a love this fierce, this consuming.
That same day, the doctor confirmed the pregnancy was stable. Jocelyn made soup, giddy with happiness, and carried it to his study. But outside the door, she heard his voice, low and careful, giving instructions to his assistant.
"Make sure everything's arranged on the Swiss end. Nellie's health is fragile. She's not to worry about a single thing regarding this child."