The Martinez Fortune

Chapter 1.

"Aid me!"

Isabella screeched from excruciating agony. She dragged herself from her bedroom with force since her contractions were too painful and she was searching everywhere for her husband, Ethan Anderson.

"Darling, please lend a hand!"

When she yelled, all she heard were the room's echoes. Thinking that Ethan had gone to grab her special morning salad like he always did, she fumbled for her phone.

She was shaking hands as she picked up her phone when she heard laughing coming from downstairs.

"Thank God, maybe it's Ethan or the maids," Isabella thought to herself. She was taken aback to find that neither Ethan nor the maids had visited to see how she was doing as usual.

Why wasn't he present when she needed him the most, since by now he had brought her morning salad every time?

She got up, trying not to show how hurt she was, and stammered.

before another excruciating contraction started, she moaned and plastered her face with sweat before yelling once again, "z."

"Help me, please!"

She thought her shouts were not loud enough when the sound of laughter reverberated once more. She dragged herself through the agony out of her room and along the hallways until she reached the stairs since her strength was also failing her.

She felt another contraction coming on, but she was so shocked that blood started to seep out from between her thighs.

With a "Ethan?"

She felt disoriented and her voice was thin. With only her cousin Olivia to witness the breakup, the man gave her a false remorseful face. Even though he spoke softly, she could only feel that it was poisoned after what she had seen.

What is wrong, my love? It seemed like he cared.

Isabella's cousin Olivia, the woman he had been flirting with, started to dash up the stairs as though she too cared.

"She appears to be in labour,

Olivia I's eyes glowed with mock concern once more. Isabella fell on the ground, too startled and repulsed by what she had witnessed and their divergent actions, while Ethan ran up the stairs to her like the devoted husband he was.

"You mean you know when our baby is due to come out?" Ethan bent down in front of her and stroked her big bulge.

With a cry of "Ahhhhhhhhh, please help me," "It hurts so much to have contractions."

She didn't realise what was about to happen, but at least they could get her to the hospital before she confronts what she had just witnessed.

"You must sign this for me before I can take you to the hospital," Ethan's voice was serious.

Isabella glimpsed a stack of documents in his hands from the corner of her foggy eye.

The anguish, the emotional torment, the contractions had her hands tightly gripping her tummy.

Ethan continued, assuming she was unaware of what it was, and said, "You have to give your approval for the business, the funds, and all assets." Isabella thought as he taunted her with a smirk, staring her in the eyes. "Only then, will I take you to the hospital," he said. Was this the same man who'd kissed the floor beneath her feet years ago? Why did she turn down so many suitors?

How could she give up these assets—the result of her family's decades of labor—to traitors?

Isabella was crushed by her own foolishness.

Her heart was punctured like a knife by hatred and agony. He was a liar who fooled her for years into thinking he was her knight in shining armour and protector. She felt another sharp contraction, and her thoughts returned to the unborn child. She had to battle tomorrow and rescue herself and her child today.

She signed the papers with unsteady hands, and that's when Olivia and Ethan started laughing. Olivia gave Isabella a disgusted look. From the blood in the puddle she sat in, she was a mess.

She's very foolish. She gave you credit," Olivia chuckled.

She only had one cousin, Olivia. Olivia told Elaine that her closest friend had feelings for Ethan, which caused her relationship with Elaine to fall apart. Olivia was the only person she could trust. 1.

Isabella experienced a heart stab. Is she wearing a cone?

She was duped by her father into marrying Lucas Johnson. However, she snapped at him the night of their honeymoon, prompting him to file for divorce as she wed her true love, Ethan Anderson.

She even assisted Ethan in ruining Lucas's life and losing billions of dollars in commercial transactions. Isabella felt as though she was immobilised by shock because of how numb she was.

"I find it hard to believe that you, the CEO of Martinez Incorporated, are such an uneducated woman.

The wiser one was your father, who forced me to sign the prenup. Ethan said, "He was a tough one, but I killed him in a plane crash with your mother," without feeling guilty at all.

He laughed at Isabella's sad, shaky appearance and her cries. She was the dumbest lady he had ever met.

"You appear taken aback. Before the private jet took off with all those businessmen on board, I bribed someone to tamper with a few things. I made you oppose Lucas Johnson, hehe. The guy did love you, though, but you were blinded by your own ignorance. You enabled me to flatten him. I used you as my instrument to force him to lose all those enterprises so I could take control of them."

Isabella was in such much anguish that she lost all desire to live because she could not believe what she was hearing. Her childhood friend Lucas Johnson was being used by Lucas to get up the corporate ladder, according to Ethan, who she met while attending college. Lucas's father is a lecturer, therefore he's not wealthy. Isabella was at a loss for words as Ethan went on to say, "Now that I have everything, I have no use for you." Isabella clutched her nine-month-old bulge and shook her head. She reached out to assist Olivia in descending the stairs.

Isabella yelled, "Olivia!" She thought Olivia would have a child baby Liam and assist her because they were cousins.

"Dummy, stop calling my name. I've been dating Ethan for the past five years. Did you believe it was just a chance that you two ended up together at the library? I set it up. I gave him to you on loan only."

Olivia expressed her amazement at how, despite the obstacles, everything came together.

"I have to say, Isabella, Lucas Johnson made things difficult for us. Haha. He believes he can surround you with individuals who will watch out for you and be your knight in shining armour, but guess what? We had people observing him, and we outwitted him.

She grinned wickedly as she gave Isabella a fresh batch of documents, E 1.

"Like the b***h you are, very soon his business would also collapse due to the bad people we sent there, and he would become a penniless son of a b***h," Olivia declared triumphantly.

Isabella believed Lucas was her family's nemesis and that he only interfered with matters pertaining to her family. Relationships: She recently learned that the man she fell in love with was the genuine snake. She grasped her bulging belly and realised that the agony was more than just the contraction that had started up again.

"Take me to the hospital, please, and you can have everything," Isabella begged, her eyes welling with tears.