Chapter 2

I contacted the control tower again.

Justin said impatiently, "Flight C2991 is experiencing a special situation and has to land first. Circle around and wait."

I replied sternly, "There's an incoming thunderstorm at our location."

Justin sneered, "Cut the crap, Julia. Did you make up a lie to land first?

"Well, why aren't you talking about your dying daughter now?"

I took a deep breath and tried my best to control my emotions. "Justin, you're breaking the regulations.

"There are more than 300 lives on this flight now."

"You don't care about the other 300 lives on other flights either," Justin said viciously.

"You're only thinking about your life. How selfish!"

On the other end, I heard Kelly's soft words. "Wow, Justin, this is how the control tower looks. It's my first time here..."

My heart, which I thought would never feel again, sank. It ached as if it were being pierced.

My daughter had always been curious about her father's workplace. She had asked him to bring her there so many times.

On her sixth birthday, I made a birthday request on her behalf.

Justin did not hesitate; he frowned as he rejected that. "She's a big girl now. Why is she still behaving so self-willed? Is the control tower a place that any random person can enter?"

However, just minutes after his daughter's death, Justin had brought Kelly into the control tower.

I said coldly, "Justin, you shall bear the full responsibility and consequences if the plane crashes.

"Do you know how hard I had to try for you to keep your job the last time you were punished—"

"What a joke!" Justin sneered as he interrupted me.

He said sternly, "Julia, you're such a liar! Do you think I know nothing? I would've been out of my job if Kelly hadn't abolished my punishment.

"You ignored me back then. How dare you claim the credit that belongs to Kelly? You're disgusting."

A sense of absurdity came over me. I asked in disbelief, "Did you say it was her? How's that possible? It was clear—"

However, the line of communication was cut off again.

I did not get the chance to explain myself to him. However, as long as Kelly was there, I knew he would not listen to a single word I said.

When I married Justin, I did not know he had a soulmate.

I gave him all of my affection and love without reservation.

I thought we would live together until the end of our lives.

In the eyes of others, we were a perfect, happy, and harmonious family of three.

Kelly returned to his life when our daughter was five.

Initially, Justin seemed distracted. Gradually, he began coming home later and later.

I never questioned him; I trusted him. Only when Justin made a huge mistake one day did I know things were not right.

It was rumored that he was distracted while he was dispatching the flights. He almost caused two planes to collide.

His grave mistake caused the airport to suspend him from his job immediately. He also faced a considerable risk of being fired.

To secure his job, I begged and pleaded with almost everyone. I got drunk again and again while persuading others until I was hospitalized for gastric bleeding. I nearly lost my life.

When I was in the hospital, I took a whole week off, and I did not dare to tell Justin about it.

I lied to him and told him I was on vacation.

His job was saved in the end, with only a minor punishment.

I had never thought that he credited that to Kelly.

I finally understood why Justin was extremely cold to me after the incident. On the contrary, Kelly became his priority in everything.

When Kelly had a cut on her finger, he immediately rushed to her side. He had left his feverish daughter alone.

When Kelly was upset, Justin, a man who had never cooked, prepared a meal to comfort her.

Something had happened to Kelly in our past lives, but Justin remained silent for a long time and ultimately did not say anything about it.

I thought he had finally figured out that we were his family.

I only realized I was wrong when he locked me and my daughter in the house.

He had not figured it out. He was only waiting for an opportunity to seek revenge for the person he loved deeply.