My Husband Served Me Divorce Papers Hours After I Gave Birth To Triplets. He Called Our Children A Mistake, Not Knowing I Am Actually The Billionaire Heiress Funding His Company. Should I Bankrupt Him Before He Realizes Who I Really Am?

A Vow of Strength

After ensuring that her three babies were receiving the best care in the private nursery connected directly to her room, Eleanor asked for a moment alone before discussing business matters with the legal team. She forced herself to get up and walked slowly to the large wall mirror, looking at herself with a piercing gaze that scrutinized her own soul. The woman who looked back from the mirror seemed pale and fragile, with dark circles under her eyes that were silent witnesses to sleepless nights and the inner suffering she had endured.

But behind that physical fragility, Eleanor saw something new beginning to grow: a steely determination forged in the fire of betrayal that had burned away any form of tenderness Richard had exploited. She touched her own reflection in the mirror, promising the woman she saw that this would be the last time she would look wretched. From tomorrow on, the world would know that face not as that of a victim but as that of a conqueror.

Her mind drifted to the past, remembering the impulsive yet romantic decision she made five years ago when she chose to abandon the great Prescott name to seek a pure love untainted by wealth. She remembered how she met Richard, an ambitious young man from a middle-class family who made her believe that love could be built from scratch, fighting side by side against the hardships of the world. Eleanor had hidden her identity perfectly, living simply, cooking, cleaning, and even saving from the grocery money to buy Richard a decent desk.

She did all that in the hope that Richard would love her for who she was, not for the billion-dollar inheritance that awaited her. Richard, in fact, had passed that initial test. He married the poor Eleanor. But as time went on and his ambitions grew, the man’s mask began to crack and finally shattered at the very moment Eleanor most needed support.

Dismantling Richard’s World

Eleanor looked at the figures of the investments she had secretly injected to support the dreams of the man who had now discarded her like trash. All this time she had lived austerely, refraining from buying new clothes, pretending that her salary as a freelance translator was barely enough to eat, when in reality she was injecting millions of dollars to cover Richard’s incompetence in managing his business.

Love had blinded her, made her willing to be the unsung hero behind the scenes, allowing Richard to live in the illusion that he was a successful and independent entrepreneur. But that night, that illusion had to end in the most painful way for Richard to realize that without Eleanor he was nothing more than an ordinary man with average skills and too many dreams.

Eleanor took the gold pen that Winston offered her, its tip hovering over the paper of the investment cooperation termination order. With a calm voice that contained a deadly authority, Eleanor asked Winston about the status of this quarter’s fund injection, which was due to arrive tomorrow morning to save the operations of Richard’s company. Winston explained in detail that without those funds, Richard’s company would go into default with suppliers and banks in less than 48 hours, which would lead to the seizure of assets and total bankruptcy.

Eleanor nodded slowly. Her eyes showed not the slightest pity as she remembered Richard’s cold face when he threw the divorce papers at her. She told Winston that it was time for Richard to learn to stand on his own two feet without the crutch he had so despised. It was time for him to feel the cold of the real business world without Eleanor’s warm protective cloak. Eleanor signed the investment termination document with a firm motion. The stroke of her ink on the white paper was like a death sentence for Richard’s career.

The Fall of Apex Innovations

Meanwhile, in another corner of the city, in an exclusive nightclub in the Meatpacking District filled with the smoke of expensive cigars and intoxicating music, Richard was celebrating his freedom with euphoria and without the slightest remorse. He was sitting on a red velvet sofa in the VIP area, a crystal glass with the most expensive champagne in one hand, while the other possessively wrapped around the slender waist of Tiffany, who was laughing flirtatiously beside him.

Richard told his friends how relieved he felt to have finally gotten rid of the parasite that was holding back his career, referring to Eleanor with a derogatory tone that was met with laughter from Tiffany and her friends. Tiffany, in a designer dress that showcased her curves and diamond jewelry that sparkled under the club’s lights, looked at Richard with calculated adoration, seeing him as a trophy of her victory over another woman.

She whispered sweet nothings in his ear, promising that her father would soon appoint him as the CEO of one of his subsidiaries as a wedding gift. Richard grinned from ear to ear, his ego soaring, feeling that his decision to divorce Eleanor was the most brilliant business move he had ever made in his life. He imagined Eleanor at that moment crying in a modest apartment counting pennies to buy milk, and that thought gave him a sadistic satisfaction.

But the next day, the atmosphere at the headquarters of Richard’s company, Apex Innovations, was the complete opposite. Chaos reigned like a contagious disease. Phones rang incessantly, staff ran around with panicked faces, and piles of unpaid bills mounted at the reception. Richard sat in his cluttered office with his shirt rolled up and his tie loose. His hair was disheveled because he kept running his hands through it in frustration.

He stared at the computer screen that showed a graph of the company’s cash flow in a freefall toward deep red, a terrifying sight he never imagined would happen so quickly. The mysterious investor who had been his savior had suddenly disappeared without a trace, cutting off all vital cash flow just when he most needed capital for the major expansion he had promised his new shareholders.