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
John looked at Olivia, frowning. His body shuddered involuntarily as he shouted, “Come down! Olivia, think about your brother.”“Bah! Besides threatening me with my brother, what else do you have? You said you would love and protect me for the rest of my life. Look at what you’re doing now.”As Olivia spoke, tears flowed down her cheeks.She felt wronged, so wronged!“I married you because you got down on one knee and swore you’d love me. Look at what you’ve done now.”John felt heartbroken. He had seen Olivia like this before.When they were in love, she was once wronged like this. Back then, she had also been crying like this, out of breath.This woman hated being wronged.How could he forget?He reached out his hand to pull Olivia, but she dodged it.“Go away! Stay back. I’m not going to save that woman!”John’s heart softened, and he said gently, “Liv, why don’t you come down first?”Dumbfounded, Olivia felt like John had become gentle again, just like before.She sat
Olivia’s body trembled, and she could not breathe. She thought about struggling, but she felt disappointed and lost hope when she saw John’s cold gaze.‘Forget it. That’s it.’She was tired, and dying at John’s hands did not seem so bad.John had saved her life. Dying in his hands meant she could return her debt to him.Then, she slowly closed her eyes and no longer struggled. It was as though she was waiting for death.The hand around her neck loosened, and John’s cold voice came. He was warning her.“Olivia, I told you to be obedient. Why aren’t you listening to me?”Olivia coughed violently, her lungs aching from lack of oxygen. She pressed her chest with her free hand and coughed up a mouthful of blood.John was shocked. He did not expect Olivia to cough blood.“Olivia, stop pretending!”‘Pretend?’‘Isn’t Dorothy the one who’s pretending?’Olivia glanced at John and lifted her bloody hand. “Why don’t you test if this is my blood?”John frowned and said coldly, “Olivia,