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I Left My Husband After Getting Pregnant
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My husband’s first love and I got pregnant at the same time. My husband stepped forward without hesitation and said that her baby was his. But my baby became someone everyone cursed and called a ba...
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第1章
My husband’s first love and I got pregnant at the same time. My husband stepped forward without hesitation and said that her baby was his.
But my baby became someone everyone cursed and called a bastard. Just because two months ago, she and I were kidnapped at the same time. That whole night, the unfinished building was filled with our cries for help.
I had an AIDS certificate in my bag for self-defense, so the kidnappers did not dare to touch me.
I stared at my husband, trying to find even a little emotion on his cold face.
“You clearly know this baby was already there before the kidnapping. Why do you not believe me?”
My husband looked at me with disgust. “You are willing to tell any lie just to protect your own name. That is disgusting.”
Later, the hospital proved that the baby in my belly was my husband’s.
But my husband still got angry and slapped me. “Tyara, you did not save Elise because she is my first love. You are a cruel woman, just like your mother. No wonder your father cheated.”
I looked at him in shock. For the first time, he felt like a stranger to me.
I once told him everything with full trust, but it became the fuel he used to shame me and my parents.
I suddenly realized that in ten years of marriage to Geff, I was the only one still living in the joke called “love.”
From the beginning to the end, the only person he ever cared about was Elise.
Since that was the truth, then I would give him one last gift — freedom.
***
“Geff, my stomach hurts…”
In the dark warehouse, Geff kicked the door open with his men.
My eyes lit up. I struggled and called out to the man at the door.
But Geff only gave me a quick glance. Then he saw Elise not far away, her clothes torn into pieces, her body full of wounds.
Geff’s eyes widened, and his face turned pale at once. “Elise!”
He rushed to the woman who was almost unconscious. His legs nearly gave out.
I stared at his reaction in a daze. The calm and steady man finally lost control for the first time. Then a sharp pain in my lower belly pulled me back to reality.
Under my skirt, blood was flowing out non stop, and the strong pain made it hard for me to even breathe. I struggled to reach out and said with great effort, “Geff, my stomach… blood…”
Geff picked up Elise in his arms and turned around.
Our gazes locked. I looked at him, begging silently, while his eyes remained icy and distant.
His deep eyes were unusually cold.
All the words I wanted to say got stuck in my throat. After ten years of marriage, I could almost read every look in his eyes.
The doubt in his gaze hurt me deeply. I looked down at my still mostly clean skirt.
“I had an AIDS certificate in my bag for self-defense, so they did not dare touch me… Geff, I really knew nothing about this.”
I tried to grab him, but the tearing pain below my body left me with no strength.
A trace of disgust flashed in Geff’s eyes. He turned to the door and shouted, “Doctor! Where is the doctor?”
I lay on the ground and slowly lifted my head. All I saw was Geff holding the girl tightly and running to the door, calling Elise’s name again and again.
I opened my mouth, but my heart felt like it was being cut by a knife. My throat was so tight that I could not speak.
All this time, Geff never showed many emotions in front of me. I thought he was just a quiet, cold man who did not talk much. But now, seeing how panicked he was, my chest felt so heavy I could hardly breathe.
So he was someone who was afraid to lose someone.
I dragged my weak lower body and slowly crawled to the warehouse door. Then I heard Geff talking to someone.
“Sir, Miss Heggart is stable now. We should go check on Mrs. Sincle.”
“No need. She planned this to hurt Elise. She deserves to die.”
I looked at the shadows moving on the ground and froze in place.
Geff’s words were like an invisible knife, cutting deep into my heart and destroying my last bit of hope.
I wanted to call for help, but the pain in my body and heart was too much. I could not even move.
Before I lost consciousness, I seemed to hear Geff say, “Leave her here and let her think about what she did. She must pay for everything she has done.”
When I woke up, I smelled disinfectant. A familiar woman’s voice came to my ears. “So lucky. You actually woke up?”
My blurry vision slowly became clear, and Elise’s face appeared in front of me.
I wanted to speak, but the pain in my throat made me swallow my words.
Elise played carelessly with the drip tube in her hand, pulling the needle in my vein and stirring it around.
I frowned and let out a low groan.
“Do not look at me like that. Geff trusts me, that is all.” Elise leaned closer, her voice proud and smug. “I only helped you see who Geff truly loves.”
I stared at her and said hoarsely, “Aren’t you afraid Geff will find out the truth?”
“The truth?” Elise laughed as if she had just heard a big joke. “I am pregnant. Geff said he would not let me be embarrassed, so he already told everyone that this baby is his.”
“And your baby…” Elise poked my belly hard, “…is a bastard.”
She laughed wildly, while I stared at her in shock, unable to say a word.
“Go ahead and tell everyone. Let us see if Geff will believe your silly ‘truth.’”
Watching Elise walk away, I stared at my belly in a daze. So that stomach pain was because I was pregnant?
But then I thought about how Geff was willing to give up even his own child for Elise.
The joy in my heart disappeared at once.
I stared at the tree branches outside the window. After a while, I took out my phone and made a call.
“I agree to what you said. Come and pick me up now.”
第2章
“Agree to what?” Geff suddenly pushed the hospital room door open.
I did not know how much he had heard, so I quickly hung up the phone in panic.
His eyes went to where I hid my phone, then he coldly looked away.
Seeing him like this, I suddenly felt my actions were silly. After all, why would he care?
“The doctor said you need to walk more during recovery. Get ready. I will send someone to pick you up later.”
I stared at him in a daze for a few seconds. But very soon, the little hope in my heart was crushed again because I saw Elise in the car.
She was sitting in the front passenger seat, smiling warmly and waving at me.
She looked completely different from the cruel face she showed when I woke up.
Geff’s calm voice came from the side. “You should thank Elise. She said she felt lonely and wanted you to keep her company…”
His sharp gaze fell on me. “Otherwise, I would never give you another chance to get close to her.”
Elise gently tapped the man’s arm and pretended to be upset. “Geff, did I not tell you? That whole thing was because Tyara was too scared. She did not mean it. Do not be so harsh to her.”
Geff’s voice softened at once. “Alright, alright, my fault, my darling. I was just afraid she might hurt you again.”
“With you here, no one can hurt me.”
I stood there, biting my lower lip hard. Watching how close they were, it felt like my heart was suddenly emptied.
It was as if an ice spike had gone through me — cold and painful.
In ten years of marriage, I had tried to be close to him before. But every time, he would say, “Tyara, as Mrs. Sincle, you should be proper and dignified. You should know manners, not act like a bar girl who cannot control herself when she sees a man.”
That sentence made me sad for a long time. But in the end, I convinced myself that maybe he just needed a proper wife who would support him and help him.
Now I saw Elise clinging to him like a spoiled little cat, and Geff calling her “my darling,” with love clearly shining in his eyes.
So even someone as proud and distant as Geff would lower his head for a woman he truly loved.
I did not know how I ended up sitting in the back seat of the car. By the time I came back to my senses, I was already in a wedding dress shop.
Elise looked like a child, marveling at how beautiful every wedding dress was.
Geff followed behind her, answering her again and again without any impatience.
That scene made it look like they were a real engaged couple, and I was just an unimportant outsider.
“Tyara!”
Elise did not want me to disappear like that.
She ran to me with a bright smile. “Tyara, what kind of wedding dress did you wear when you married Geff? Was it pretty?”
She looked so innocent, but every word felt like a needle stabbing into my heart.
“She never wore a wedding dress.”
I looked up at Geff in shock. The careless look on his face made my heart sink even colder. That was true.
When I first asked Geff to go see wedding dresses with me and full of hope, he pushed me away. “Tyara, the company is growing. I want to put all the money into the business. We already registered the marriage, so we can have the wedding later.”
With that one word “later,” he delayed it for ten years.
Elise pretended to be surprised, her face full of apology. “I am sorry, Tyara. I did not know…”
Geff quickly comforted the woman in his arms in a gentle voice. “It has nothing to do with you. If she really wants a wedding, I will give her one.”
I could not help letting out a cold laugh. So that was what he called “giving.”
I looked at the loving couple in front of me and smiled lightly. There was no warmth in my eyes, but in a corner no one could see, my hands were trembling.
After a moment, I looked into Geff’s eyes and slowly said, “No need. It is a waste of money.”
第3章
Geff rarely frowned and narrowed his eyes a little.
“Tyara, come choose with me then. Geff must want to see what his wife looks like in a wedding dress, right?”
I was about to refuse, when a man carrying a design book walked over. I recognized him as Geff’s good friend, Logan Avery.
He did not see me sitting there and went straight to Geff. “Finally! It wasn’t easy, but you actually brought Mrs. Sincle along?”
My heart jumped hard. Even though I had been married to Geff for ten years, his friends always called me “Miss Varch”, not Mrs. Sincle. He told me it was out of respect.
I looked past Logan’s shoulder and met Geff’s eyes, wanting an explanation. But he quietly looked away. “Yeah. Let her choose.”
Elise took the design book and glanced at me. Then she smiled and sat down to look through it. Just like that, I was treated as if I did not exist.
Logan secretly poked Geff’s arm, a teasing look in his eyes. “I did not expect this. You even got Miss Varch pregnant?”
Geff was silent for a moment, then took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth. “Why talk about her? Elise’s baby is the real one.”
Logan stopped him from lighting the cigarette. “Do not smoke here. Do you want to ruin all my wedding dresses?”
Then he looked at Elise who was choosing dresses. “Hey, back then when you fought with your first love and married Tyara out of anger, we even bet on whether it was real. The others trusted you so much, and you actually went through with it. It made me lose 1,5 thousand dollars for nothing.”
Geff gave a cold laugh. “Who told you to bet?”
He talked about me and Elise so casually with his close friend. I looked at him, the sadness in my heart would not go away.
After we got our marriage certificate, I wanted to talk to him about the wedding, but he left me at the City Hall.
Logan handed me an envelope and told me Geff was very busy, so he probably had no time to hold a wedding. The few friends who came today to witness the registration treated it as attending a wedding banquet, so they gave me the money as a “gift.”
I listened quietly, my hands trembling behind my back where no one could see. At some point, my eyes filled with tears. So that so-called “wedding gift money” was actually the punishment Logan and the others paid because they lost a bet.
I once naively believed that at least in the beginning, Geff loved me, and that his friends were also decent people. I never expected everything to be a game from the start, and I was the biggest joke in that game.
The next moment, Elise’s voice cut into the conversation. She smiled and held up the design book, pointing to a page. “Do you still have this one? I like this dress.”
Logan walked over and bent down. When he saw the design, he froze a little.
Elise noticed something was wrong. “What?”
“This…” Logan scratched his head and hesitated before speaking. “This was designed by Miss Varch…”
Suddenly I remembered, in the second year of my marriage, I secretly went to Logan and asked him to teach me how to draw designs. Then I personally drew a wedding dress design, and beside it was a suit I designed for Geff.
Every size was measured carefully.
I secretly took his old custom made suits and measured them one by one. But Geff never talked about having a wedding, so the design was slowly forgotten.
I looked at the now yellowed paper, my heart hurting so much I could not breathe.
Geff’s face changed slightly — something very rare.
“But this wedding dress was mistaken by my assistant as my new design, so it was made. If you want to try it, I can go get it for you…” As Logan spoke, he turned around and finally saw someone sitting behind him.
When he saw who it was, his eyes widened in shock and he opened his mouth. “Miss… Miss Varch?”
第4章
I looked at the man’s shocked face and gave him a calm smile. “Am I disturbing you?”
A guilty look flashed in Logan’s eyes. “I am sorry, Miss Varch. We made that dress without your permission…”
“It is fine. If Miss Heggart likes it, that is an honor for the dress. I can give the copyright of this design to you as a wedding gift.”
Elise froze for a moment. After understanding my words, she turned to look at Geff, her eyes full of joy and hope.
But this time, he did not look at her. I felt a burning gaze fixed on me.
Geff frowned and took a step toward me. “A wedding gift? Tyara, are you crazy? Even if you are jealous, there should be a limit!”
I looked at him in confusion. He called this jealousy?
“I think this is good. It is unique, and it is free. It saves money.”
Geff stared at me, as if he wanted to say more. Just then, the staff pushed the dress out.
The white silver fabric flowed like water. The hem was embroidered with silver patterns, and tiny diamonds were set on the dress like a shining galaxy. It was not loud or flashy like normal wedding dresses. Its simple mermaid shape was like a beautiful mermaid from the deep sea.
I looked at the dress and felt the heart I had when I designed it. That heart believed that a beautiful mermaid would grow legs for true love.
Elise’s voice broke the silence. She picked up the dress and happily held it in front of the mirror. “Wow, Logan, your staff is really careful. They even made it in my size.”
Looking at Elise’s back, my eyelashes trembled slightly. To be honest, I suddenly felt sorry for the woman I used to be. Everyone knew the truth, but I refused to believe it and willingly became a joke for ten years. The wedding dress I designed myself was secretly changed into another woman’s size.
A sharp pain spread from my heart through my whole body.
Elise suddenly came over and grabbed my hand, smiling sweetly at me. “Tyara, you are the designer of this dress. Why don't you help me put it on? I do not mean anything bad. I just think you understand this dress better…”
She pulled me into the fitting room. Then she gave me a jealous smile, and a cold feeling ran down my back.
“Tyara, do you really think one simple design can change Geff’s heart?” Elise looked at me with a twisted, ugly expression. “I am telling you, Geff only has me in his heart. Today he can come with me to try on wedding dresses just because I said so. Tomorrow he can make your name disappear from the marriage paper!”
I stepped back and said carefully, “I don’t care who is in his heart anymore. I will leave him.”
Elise laughed coldly. “Leave? Everyone knows you are just Geff’s loyal pet. You pretend not to care just to make him curious. You are really sneaky.”
As she spoke, she slowly walked toward me, the killing intent in her eyes growing stronger.
I moved back little by little until my back hit the window. My heart was beating wildly. “What are you doing?”
“What am I doing?” Elise glanced back, then showed me an innocent smile. “I am helping you face the truth.”
With that, Elise pushed me hard out of the window.
The next second, an overwhelming feeling of falling covered my whole body.
第5章
When I opened my eyes again, a man was sitting beside the hospital bed. I opened my mouth, but the pain in my throat made me frown.
Adrian heard the sound and turned around. The cold look in his eyes became gentle. He handed me a cup of water and said seriously, “What is Geff even doing? If it had not been snowing heavily in Larkridge these days, you would not have survived.”
My eyelashes trembled as the memory of the wedding dress shop rushed back.
“I did not want to tell you this, but you must know… you fell from such a high place. It was already a miracle to survive. And because your emotions were not stable, the baby… could not be saved.”
The dull look in my eyes finally changed.
After a while, I weakly forced a smile. “Maybe it is better that the child did not come into this world.”
After all, if the little one knew what kind of man his father was, he would probably hate his mother.
Out of the corner of my eye, I suddenly saw the bandages on Adrian’s arm, and my gaze shifted.
“You are hurt?”
Before Adrian could answer, his assistant spoke first. “Mr. Donovan rushed here as soon as he got off the plane. He happened to see you being pushed down, and he got hurt while trying to save you…”
Adrian gave the man a cold look, telling him to stop.
I looked at him with mixed feelings. So many words were stuck in my throat that I did not know how to say them.
He seemed to understand and gave a light smile. “It is fine. Just a small injury. Do not feel guilty. Everything has been arranged. In three days, everything will disappear.”
Through Adrian, I looked at my reflection in the mirror in the distance.
After a long moment, I nodded slowly. “Thank you.”
When I returned home from the hospital, I went straight to the bedroom to pack my things.
But inside, I saw Elise in a bathrobe. She froze for a moment when she saw me, then smiled brightly and turned around. “Oh, Tyara, your luck is really good as always. Guess what happened these past few days?”
Looking at the woman who caused my child’s death, my heart started beating wildly, beyond my control.
Elise raised her hand and showed the huge diamond ring on her ring finger.
I recognized it at once. It was the first ring Geff gave me when he proposed. It was our promise ring. I kept it in a box, afraid to scratch it, never willing to wear it.
“I told Geff I was going to get married. That day was meant to be our final goodbye, but I never expected my words to provoke him… to make him…” Elise glanced casually at the big bed behind her.
That was where he and I had been together on our wedding night.
Her voice continued, “He punished me for three days and three nights. No matter how much I begged, it did not stop. So, Tyara, it is not that I refuse to give Geff back to you. It is that he cannot live without me.”
I looked at her proud face, my stomach twisting in disgust.
Suddenly, Elise seemed to remember something and placed her hand on her lower belly. “Oh anyway, do you know why Geff immediately said the baby in my belly is his? Because… it really is his.”
The woman walked closer, looking straight into my eyes. “I told him to be careful not to hurt our baby, but he was still rough and out of control. He said he would make me pregnant again, so I would be tied to him forever.”
Elise smiled. “Maybe right now, I am already carrying twins.”
Her words made me shake with anger. I hit her hard, sending her to the floor. “Elise, before I divorce Geff, you will always be a shameless third woman!”
Looking down at her, I bent closer, my eyes burning with rage. “A mistress should know her place.”
The next second, the door was suddenly pushed open.
A furious voice froze me in place. “Tyara, what are you doing?”
第6章
Elise reacted first.
She covered her face and curled up, tears in her big eyes as she looked at Geff, like a little rabbit that had been wronged.
Geff rushed over and pulled her into his arms, full of pain and care. Without waiting for her to explain, he spoke in anger, “Apologize to Elise! Now!”
The pain in my hand was nothing compared to the pain in my heart. My lips trembled as I stared at him. “Apologize? Geff, do you know where I have been these past days?”
A cold laugh came from above. “You hated Elise and jumped off the building on purpose to frame her. Then, your trick did not work, so now you are losing control?”
So he really wished I was dead.
Geff clearly did not want to talk anymore. He picked up Elise in his arms and turned to leave the room.
I collapsed onto the floor as memories rushed through my mind. Then my phone rang.
“Go to the hospital tomorrow to clear out your mother’s things. In the afternoon, my people will come to pick you up.”
My mother was the president of the Yarlington Group. When her career was rising, she fell in love with my poor father.
She should have lived a bright, beautiful life. But after my father cheated on her, she collapsed from the shock and had not woken up since.
I never expected that years later, her daughter would face the same thing.
“I understand.” After hanging up, I wiped my tears and looked at the empty doorway.
Whatever.
Once these two days were over, everything would finally end.
The next day, I went to the hospital as planned, but my mother was gone from her bed. All the medical machines in the room had been removed.
In panic, I heard nurses talking.
“Did you hear? Mr. Sincle’s wife is in danger. She needs a heart transplant right away. And she is pregnant too.”
A bad feeling hit me. I knew “Mr. Sincle” meant Geff.
My heart tightened.
After finally finding the room, through the glass I saw Elise crying in Geff’s arms, and my mother lying beside her with an oxygen mask.
My heart jumped. I pushed the door open hard.
Geff froze when he saw me, then gave orders to the people beside him.
“Elise’s surgery is about to start. Throw her out. I do not want anyone to disturb Elise.”
Hearing this, I was even more sure of my fear.
I struggled with all my strength, not letting those people touch me.
“Geff, you are really going to give my mother’s heart to her? You are shameless!”
“Tyara, you know Elise is pregnant, yet you kept provoking her again and again. Now that she is sick, are you very pleased?”
I stared at the man with bloodshot eyes, filled with rage and despair. “I did not provoke her. The kidnapping was her scheme. She was the one who pushed me down the stairs. She was the one who killed our child…”
“Enough!” Geff’s face twisted, the veins on his neck bulging. “You are still trying to argue at a time like this? Fine. Then let your useless mother pay for it! This heart is what you owe Elise!”
Suppressing the pain in my chest, I took out a document from my bag and threw it at Geff. If he refused to believe the child in my womb was his, he could not possibly deny the hospital report. Even though that child was already gone, I still looked at him with a final sliver of hope.
In the next instant, a furious slap landed on my face. “Tyara, just because Elise is my first love, you refuse to save her! You are just as vicious as your mother. No wonder your father cheated on her!”
I knelt on the floor, staring at him in a daze. For the first time, I felt that he was a complete stranger. Everything I had once told him in trust had now become ammunition for him to humiliate me and my parents.
Elise pretended to be sympathetic. “Geff, Tyara must be heartbroken about losing her mother. Let her see her mother one last time, okay? Just let her fulfill her duty as a daughter.”
I glared at Elise as if I could tear her apart with my eyes.
The next second, Geff spoke in a cold voice, “Hold her down. I want her to watch with her own eyes as her mother’s heart is cut out.”
“Geff, you will be punished for this!”
Before the shining knife even came down, it already felt like my own heart was being torn apart.
“No! Don’t touch her!” I rushed forward. The moment I hugged my mother, the falling knife cut a deep wound across my back.
I closed my eyes tightly, as if I could not feel any pain at all. “Please… she will die!”
第7章
The next second, Geff grabbed my hair from behind and yanked it hard.
My whole body was forced backward by the force, slamming into the floor. My head rang as if it were about to split open.
Tears streamed down my face as I screamed at him in desperation, “Geff, when you wanted to start your business, it was my mother who gave you the money and found investors for you. If it were not for her, you would have burned to death in the ICU that winter, do you know that? She is your lifesaver. How can you treat her like this?”
I thought he would remember her kindness, but my words only seemed to touch his raw nerve. Geff flung me aside violently, then stepped on my face with his leather shoe.
“She is just a dead woman. Letting her contribute something to Elise at the end of her life is already an honor for her. Tyara, listen carefully. You slapped Elise like that. I did not make you pay with your life, and that is already my greatest mercy to you.”
My head was forced to the side, my eyes facing my mother’s operating table. At his command, the doctors raised their knives and brought them down.
I stared wide-eyed and screamed hysterically, but no one paid me any attention. Along with the stabbing pain that shot through my veins, half of my face was badly injured.
Bright red blood merged with the red soles of the man’s leather shoes, as if silently celebrating the success of the surgery.
Staring at the still-crimson heart inside the container, my bones felt as though they were being crushed by unbearable pain. My body trembled uncontrollably, and I could only let out broken, agonized moans from deep in my throat.
Why?
Why would he rather destroy everything around me than believe me even once?
I did not know how long passed before my body finally collapsed to the floor, my eyes staring bleakly into the distance.
A faint breeze drifted through. A blood-stained sheet of white paper from the operating table slowly floated down in front of me.
On it was a single crooked line of handwriting. I recognized it at once—it was my mother’s.
“Tyara, I hope you will be safe and sound, and get everything your heart desires.”
At that moment, my eyes burned with tears, and my limbs felt as though they were being torn apart by savage beasts.
Ten years ago, I had gone against everything for Geff. On the eve of registering our marriage, my mother held my hands and said, “If you love him, I love him too. But Tyara, Geff may be a talented man, yet he is not a good husband. If one day he dares to hurt you, I’m willing to give up my life in exchange for your safety and happiness.”
So she had woken up. She knew everything.
The screen of the phone in front of me kept lighting up. Trembling, I raised my hand. The moment I heard the voice on the other end, all the grievance and helplessness I had bottled up for so long finally burst out, “Adrian, I do not have a mother anymore.”
There was a long silence on the other end. “I am sorry. This was my mistake. I will make Geff pay for it. I swear I will.”
Not wanting anyone with ill intentions to overhear, I dragged my exhausted body into the stairwell. The next second, a familiar voice reached my ears.
Through the stair railing, I saw Geff. The man standing in front of him… was my father.
“I have waited six years for this day. Tomorrow, Yarlington Group will welcome its new owner!”
“Don’t forget our agreement.”
“Of course. At tomorrow’s banquet, I will personally take Elise as my adopted daughter and announce your wedding date.”
“As for Tyara… she knows too much…”
Listening to their conversation, I was so shocked I did not even dare to breathe. So they were in this together.
The next day, I handed a thick stack of documents to Geff.
“What is this?”
“Some work contracts.”
Geff gave me a deep look. Just then, his assistant came in to report that Elise had woken up. Geff hastily signed several pages and left me alone in the office.
I opened the documents and finally let out a smile. They were not work contracts at all. They were agreements confirming that all shares of the Yarlington Group belonged to me personally, as well as a divorce agreement that would leave him with nothing.
That night, the Varch family held the largest banquet in years.
As fireworks bloomed across the sky, Adrian opened the car door for me. “Are you ready?”
I got into the car without hesitation. “I am ready.”
At the same time, the giant screen at the banquet suddenly went dark. When it lit up again, it was playing everything that had happened in the stairwell the day before.
Yes. I had recorded it all.
Geff thought I was foolish, thought I loved him so deeply that I could die for him. But what he did not know was that the moment he chose Elise over our child, I had already stopped loving him.
In the rearview mirror, the mansion slowly disappeared, yet the fireworks seemed to burn brighter and brighter.
The video was only a small gift. It would make you pay for everything he had done to me a hundred and a thousand times over.