Full name: Contessa Marie Velmont Nicknames: Tess Date of birth/age: December 1st, 1988/26 Occupation: Owner and Lead Contractor of CMV Construction. Education: BS in Construction Management with CCM Credentials Residence: Ocean Views Appearance: Tess gets her height from her father, coming in at a little over 5'11" tall. She is svelte like her mother, though, with the same soft curves and full lips that her mother possesses, but she has her father's eyes; blue and piercing. She has long blonde hair and legs that go on for miles. She is a very attractive woman and she knows it, consistently using that to her advantage, especially in her usual profession. After all, guys with hard-ons don't complain as much when given a higher than anticipated bill for their construction project. PB:Kristanna Loken
Personality: Tess may as well have been born a man because she certainly has the personality of one. She drinks too much, swears like a sailor, and is a total player when it comes to relationships. She will fuck just about any attractive woman that will allow her to, though her favorite thing in the world is seducing a straight girl and getting her hooked. After all, she's better than any man when it comes to pleasuring a woman, and she knows it. When it comes to men, however, she is far more selective, though she tends to go for the bad boys more often than not.
If there is one thing that can be said about Tess, it is that she is her father's daughter. Just like Christian, she can be quite cold and calculating when she needs to be and she has a real problem with not getting what she wants. She is not opposed to lying, cheating, scamming, or stealing to get whatever is she has her sights set on. Especially if what she wants is to outdo her brother. She's very competitive when it comes to Christian II and is always trying to one up him if at all possible.
In spite of all of the brashness that is on the surface, Tess has a vulnerability that not many people have ever seen. She is one of those people who doesn't do anything halfway and she has a habit of investing her entire self into things and is easily hurt when they don't work out, not that she would ever show it. She wears her bravado like armor in order to keep safe the little girl underneath who wants nothing more than for someone to love her.
History: Tess was born with a silver spoon in her mouth, the second child of a very young but very rich couple and one of a set of identical twins. As children, she and her brother were inseparable, like two peas in a pod. She wasn't all that close to her twin sister, though, in spite of the fact that they were identical. She was a rough and tumble tomboy sort of girl, at least until she was old enough to realize the kind of power that being a sexy girl could have. After that, it was all over.
Taking her cues from her brother, Tess developed into quite the player even at a young age. She was jealous of him, though, and even had a thing for a couple of the girls that he dated over the years, attempting more than once to get them out of his bed and into hers. There was even a point when she thought maybe she was in love with her brother, but she eventually figured out that it was only admiration that she felt towards him, nothing more.
Growing up, her family spent their summers in the small Maine town of Lakewood Shores. It was a bit of peace in an otherwise hectic life. Growing up in New York City, it was sometimes difficult to get a bit of down time, and with both of her parents being highly sought after professionals, her father a plastic surgeon and her mother a forensic investigator, it was good to get away. The family owned a home in the estate of Ocean Views and Tess spent many interesting months there over the years.
And then Casey happened. Tess was horrified when she found out that she was pregnant. She was terrified of telling her parents and even more terrified of telling the father. She was past the point where an abortion was possible when she finally told her parents about the pregnancy. They were of course upset. And when she told them who the father of the unborn child was, they were even more upset. It was decided by her parents that both of them were far too young to deal with a baby, so they decided for her that the child would be given up for adoption.
Things didn't go precisely according to plan when it came to the birth of Tess's daughter. She went into premature labor and the baby almost died. It wasn't until then, when she nearly lost her, that she realized just how much she had grown attached to her unborn daughter. She decided at that time that she wasn't going to give the baby up. Her parents were reluctant to agree but Tess eventually won them over. Of course none of them bothered to inform the father of the change of plans. It was decided that everyone would be better off that way.
From that moment forward, Tess vowed to make Casey the center of her universe. Of course that didn't last for very long. Tess was a selfish girl and nothing could change that. She went back to her life and left the care of her daughter to her nanny, at least throughout the early years. Although her father hated the idea of it, Tess made the decision to attend college after high school to earn a degree in construction management. Tess loved to build things. As a graduation present, although he had been reluctant about the decision to begin with, her father helped her to start up her own construction firm. It was rather successful and she made quite a bit of money though that was never much of a concern.
And then something happened that was even more unexpected than the birth of her daughter; Tess fell in love. It had started out as a game. She'd met the girl at a club one night. She was so opposite of Tess. She was a girly girl for sure, all about pink and glitter, one of those girls that had been a pom-pom carrying cheerleader back in her high school days. Tess knew right then and there that she had to have her even though the girl had never looked twice at another woman in her life. It took a while, but eventually Tess succeeded in seducing her. When she tried to pull her usual stunt of hitting it then quitting it, however, she hit a snag. The girl refused to be quit. Then it was Tess being pursued instead of the other way around.
While it had taken a long time for Tess to get into the girl's pants, it took even longer for Tess to admit that she had fallen head over heels for the girl. By that time, however, she had gotten tired of Tess's crap. Six weeks later, she dumped her for some dick leaving Tess heartbroken for the first time in her entire life. Life in the city just wasn't all that appealing after that. She tried to get over her by getting under someone else, but nothing seemed to work. The final straw was when she saw the engagement announcement in the news. She completely lost it and she knew she had to get away.
It was then that Tess made the decision to uproot her life, and that of her now ten year-old daughter, and relocate them to her family's summer home in Lakewood Shores. It was her first time back there since before Casey was born, but not much had changed. The town had gotten a little bit bigger and the population had grown, but it was still the same small town that she had loved growing up and exactly the change she was looking for.
The Family: Christian Micheal Velmont (Age 50) - Father Jenna Marie Velmont (Age 47) - Mother Christian Michael Velmont II (Age 28) - Brother Charisma Michelle Velmont (Age 26) - Sister Connor Matthew Velmont (Age 24) - Brother Christina Meredith Velmont (Age 14) - Sister Casey Madison Velmont (Age 10) - Daughter