“Oh, Olivia, don’t try to accuse me of something I haven’t done. Johnny won’t believe you anyway. Just say whatever you want.”Then, Dorothy headed downstairs.While walking down the stairs, she pondered on how she would teach Olivia a lesson and speed up the process of their divorce.Two years ago, John rarely returned to the peninsula. Now that Dorothy had moved into this house, she thought she could get his attention more. She never thought his attitude toward Olivia would improve.She had caused this.Dorothy could not be at ease until she married John.As she walked into the kitchen, an idea popped into her mind, and she smirked....Olivia had not eaten for two days, and her already weak body could not take it anymore.Retaliating against Dorothy had exhausted her, forcing her to lie back on the bed.It was interesting to think about how John had trusted Dorothy to feed her.He was like a fool who could not differentiate lies from truth. He believed everything Dorothy
“What’s the matter?”Dorothy glanced at Olivia and complained as she sobbed, “Liv spilled her soup on me in fit of rage. I’m afraid she might hurt herself…”On the other end of the call, John frowned and coldly said, “Okay. I’ll be back.”After hanging up the call, Dorothy smirked and said, “Olivia, let’s see which of us will get punished.”She would never let John and Olivia’s love be rekindled. She would keep the secret from thirteen years ago and two years ago concealed from him.Olivia watched Dorothy in disbelief. She burst into laughter.Even though it was the same old trick, she knew John would be fooled again.Dorothy was puzzled. “Olivia, how can you still laugh when you know you’re doomed? Johnny will punish you when he comes back.”“Yes, and so what? Dorothy, I’m Mrs. Freeman, and you’re still John’s mistress after all you’ve done, aren’t you?”Olivia smirked and stared at Dorothy. “And I’m already bored of you being a one-trick pony. Do something else next time.”
John strode to the bed and forcefully lifted the pale, thin woman up from it. “Olivia, are you still pretending to sleep? How dare you pretend to be weak when you have enough strength to slap Dorothy!”Olivia slowly opened her eyes and looked at the familiar man before her.“Why can’t you speak?”“What is there to say? Will you believe me?”Her words startled John, making him feel sorry for her.Even though he was drunk last night, he remembered this woman asking him the same question then.However, John had seen the mark with his own eyes. How could he choose not to believe it? He was not blind!He flung his hand out and threw Olivia to the ground.Olivia had no strength left in her. Her stomach was grumbling, and the pain in her lungs was killing her. She was like a broken doll, breaking into pieces because of the fall.As she landed, she had to use her hands to keep her face off the ground. They hit the tiles hard.In a flash, porcelain pieces stabbed into her palm, and bl
Dorothy headed upstairs and stood outside the glass door, looking at Olivia on the ground. She shouted, “Look, Olivia. Johnny doesn’t care about the truth from your perspective.” Then, Dorothy went to open the glass door, but she realized that John locked the door. He had even taken the key with him.Dorothy froze, and she kicked the glass door with hatred. “Damn it!”Olivia leaned weakly against the guardrail. Her eyes were only slightly open. “Dorothy, why are you angry? You’ve won.”“Oh, it makes me angry that you might think my whole plan was just to make you stay out in the sun!”Of course she was angry.She had planned so many things and even found the man from two years ago.However, this was how things turned out.All John did was lock up Olivia and hit her twice. He did not mention divorce or seem to want to kill her.He only asked that b*tch to reflect on her mistakes.No man would be able to stand it if their wife cheated on them. John had hated Olivia for cheatin
There were no windows on the balcony, so she would get wet if it rained.Moreover… she felt like John would not be coming back since he had Dorothy accompanying him.Her heart gave her another faint twitching pain at the thought, but she fought it off.With the glass doors locked and with no way out, she looked down at the lawn she had landed on the last time she climbed out. She probably could do it again...Olivia took a deep breath and carefully climbed over the railing. However, her legs slipped, and she nearly fell.She gritted her teeth and pulled all of the tiles out of her palm. Then, she tried to crawl over the railing again. She moved down inch by inch.However, just before she hit the ground, her hand slipped because it was covered in blood. She fell straight to the lawn, making the tiles in her leg embed deeper into her skin. Olivia did not have the time for this. She needed to get inside.She limped to the front door and keyed in her password, but an error message
Pregnant?“What did you say, doctor? I’m pregnant?” Olivia looked at the doctor in disbelief.The doctor sighed. “Yes, but Ms. Larson, you have lung cancer. You are not fit for pregnancy.“I told you before to rest well, but you refused to do chemotherapy, and you’ve been admitted to the hospital every three days with injuries. Ms. Larson, no one can save your life now, even if he’s a God.”Finally, the doctor pursed his lips and suggested, “Ms. Larson, abort the baby. You can live an extra few days if you do.”All that remained in Olivia’s mind was the fact that she was pregnant.After a miscarriage two years ago, the doctors said she would have trouble conceiving again. For the next two years, she indeed never conceived again.Now…She lowered her head and rubbed her hands back and forth over her stomach. This was a baby she had gained throughout all this pain. How could she abort it?The rift between her and John had started with her miscarriage. If she kept this baby, mayb
Afraid Olivia had fallen or gotten hurt, John looked down, but there was no sign of her.He only learned that Olivia had escaped again when he received a phone call from Zac.She had run away again.“John, you don’t believe anything I say. It makes me very tired. Do you think we should continue our relationship?”Olivia’s slow voice snapped John out of his thought. He glared at Olivia fiercely.“You want to get a divorce and run off with another man? No way!”Then, John took out his mobile phone, pulled Olivia by her hair, and put her face close to the phone. “Look, this is your brother. Do you want him to die?”Olivia felt like her scalp was about to tear off her head. Tears shimmered in her eyes as she looked at Ian on the phone screen. She could do nothing as her body turned to jelly.John was right. She had nowhere to go.With her brother in John’s hands and their child in her womb, she had nowhere to escape.Everything had gone full circle and arrived back to the same is
John froze for a moment. Her pneumonia would become lung cancer, and her stomach was empty, so she had really not eaten.‘Dorothy lied to me?‘But Dolly is so kind. She saved me when I was on the verge of dying. How could a girl like her lie to me?’John did not leave the hospital. he lingered in the corridor.His mind was a mess like never before. Olivia might not be lying about her pregnancy if she was telling the truth about Dorothy.Suddenly, a nurse pulled another nurse in as she ran through the corridor. “Quick! Miss Ellis from the accident yesterday is losing blood again. Please go to the blood bank to see if there’s more AB-negative blood.“Hurry up! She’s in the emergency room.”John’s expression changed. He stretched out his hand and stopped the nurse. “Is the name of the person who got into a car accident Dorothy Ellis?”The nurse nodded in shock. “Yes. Are you the patient’s family member?”John nodded.“Sir, please hurry up. Your wife is short of blood. If the blo