Chapter 9

Nina lost the baby. When she woke up in the hospital, she caused several scenes. Robert and Alice stuck by her side while she recuperated, and she cursed them in various ways.

I dropped by once to check on them and saw they looked like they'd aged a decade.

When Nina saw me, she screamed, "You must feel smug now, Rose! I finally managed to get Andrew to divorce you, but I still can't marry him!"

It would've been fine if she'd said that without anyone else around, but we were in a hospital ward, where other patients were resting. Her screams upset them.

"I never would've expected a young woman like her to be a homewrecker."

"The longer you live, the more you see. This is my first time seeing a homewrecker scream at someone's wife like she's in the right."

"It sounds like she had to work hard to get between that woman and her husband, but she lost the baby, and her lover's family doesn't acknowledge her existence. It's karma, really."

"We don't want homewreckers in our ward. Can