Lillian's perspective
Ismail observed every single one of my reactions. It seemed that he had calmed down over the night and was no longer behaving madly. However, his cold eyes were still as daunting as ever.
He unfolded his hands before his chest and put them down, then took a few steps forward to stand before my bed. He stared at me and said, "Didn't you always want to know how my mother left this world?"
I was stunned. For a moment, I did not understand why he suddenly asked this question.
I once asked Ismail about his parents, but he had avoided this topic resolutely. At that moment, I understood that the death of his parents had left a deep scar in his heart. I should not have poked at his wound. Hence, since that day, I never asked about his parents again, even if I had always been curious about them.
Seeing that I did not answer him, Ismail continued, "I was kept in an incubator for two months since I was born. I was only a few months old,
Lillian's POVMy body recovered after staying in the hospital for two days.However, my mood did not improve at all.I remember when Ismail left the ward the previous morning, he said that he would give me two days to think about it before giving him an answer.Then, he left and did not appear until then.Ismail hoped that I would get rid of the baby and was sure that I would. I had never been in such a difficult situation as I did in the past two days.Twenty minutes later, Ismail showed up.He stood in front of me and looked at me. He asked calmly, "Have you decided?"I sat on the edge of the bed, obviously waiting for him to come over. I looked at him and said in a calm tone, "Ismail, let's get a divorce."Yes. This was my decision after thinking for two days.Ismail's face changed slightly. His temper sparked. He asked coldly, "What did you say?""I said I want a divorce," I repeated.I initially
Lillian's POV"You've threatened me enough. You should go back with peace of mind, right?" I sneered.Mira seemed to feel that she would be looking for trouble if she stayed any longer. She gave me a few last words of advice and turned to leave.After Mira left, Queen Meylani came up and told me that I should not stay in the bedroom all day for the sake of my baby.Although I did not want to go out, I had to listen to Queen Meylani, so I decided to take walk in the garden.The Amus family house was huge. It was so big that it took me a whole day to finish walking the place. I walked from the main house to the backyard and slowly strolled through the garden full of flowers.The ancestral temple of the Amus' family was up ahead. Ever since I snuck in that place, I had never gotten close to it again. I did not encounter anything spooky. I would still be afraid whenever I thought of it.As I stared at the ancestral temple from a distance, I felt my hair stand on end.I stopped and did not
Lillian's POVI glared at him angrily. "That's very childish of you.""I forgot to tell you that the doctor said that I can't bleed too much and I can't be infected. Otherwise, I would get hemophagocytic syndrome." He was still smiling. He gently stroked my lower abdomen. "Do you know what that is? It's an incurable disease. It's even worse than leukemia and cancer..."His voice became softer and weaker. Then, his body sank down and he fell beside me.I stared at him blankly for a moment. Then, I instinctively cried out in a low voice, "Alpha! Are you okay?"I did not expect that he would suddenly faint. He was fine just now. How could this happen...Ismail had always been in poor health. He lost so much blood after getting drunk. Was his illness recurring? I did not know what to do at this moment.I rushed to get the first aid kit in a panic. I dialed the doctor's number with one hand while I cleaned the wound on his hand with the other.The phone was connected, but it was cut off af
Third person POVIsmail did not want to make Queen Meylani unhappy, so he followed Hazel out of the dining room to have his wound treated.Once Hazel was done, Ismail went back to the dining table to have breakfast. By then, everyone else had finished eating. At the dining table, there were only Queen Meylani, Hazel and him.Hazel could sense that Queen Meylani had intentionally stayed at the table, so she took a piece of bread from the plate and said to the two of them, "Queen Meylani, Ismail, you guys enjoy your breakfast. I'll go to work first."After Hazel left, Queen Meylani turned to Ismail and said, "Did you manage to find the girl that the witch asked you to find?"Ismail did not expect that his mother would suddenly ask this question. He stopped eating and said, "Not yet.""Did you even try to find her or not?""I did. I couldn't find her," said Ismail."Who is this girl? Why is it so hard to find her?" Queen Meylani became anxious. Lillian seemed like she did not care about
Third-person perspective.In the store, Ismail was lounging on the sofa and flipping through a magazine when his phone pinged. He quickly finished skimming through the article in the magazine before he reached for his phone and clicked on the message:"Your card has been charged $1600."He had given his secondary card to no one else but Lillian, while the rest of the women he commonly paid off using cheques.He'd given her the card back then because she had returned the clothes, and he'd needed her to repurchase them. She had never swiped the card again until the one thousand-plus dollars this day.He was wondering what she'd spent the money on when the door of the locker room suddenly opened. In waltzed Katrina, clad in a seductive dress, standing in front of him with a smile. "What do you think? Is this okay?"Looking her up and down from head to toe, he stuffed his phone back into his pocket and stood up from the sofa. He raised his uninjured hand and adjusted the rose on her shoul
Lillian's perspective.Looking as the medical personnel shuffled away with Lillian on the stretcher, Ismail breathed in relief. In fact, he himself didn't know why he'd been gripped by anxiety when he saw her fall.It was blatantly obvious that he didn't want this child. So why did it feel like he had been to h*ll and back when he realized that she might lose the child? Why had he sent her to the hospital in the shortest time possible?"Don't worry, Ismail. She will be fine." Sitting down beside him, Hazel comforted him.He nodded, then turned his head to ask, "Why were you two at the mall?""Why were we?" Hazel laughed. "Well, didn't Mother always want me to spend more time with Chloe? I didn't have to work overtime today, so I could hang around with her. She was buying baby clothes in the store. That's when she saw you... and your assistant who was testing out a dress. I think she, you know, probably chose to take the elevator because she didn't want to bump into you guys." As she s
Lillian's perspective.I couldn't resist gulping, a manifestation of my fear.I really wished I could portray that Ismail-esque indifference to the results of the examination.Taking a deep breath, I put on a straight face and confronted his gaze. "I know my child best. He's very healthy, thank you very much. I hope you can keep your promise when the time comes."He nodded. "Of course. Right back at you."I took another deep breath and turned my face away from him.The ward had just quieted down when there was a series of frantic knocks on the door, after which Helen pushed the door open and dashed in. Scanning the surroundings of the ward, she fixed her eyes on the two of us and said anxiously, "Something bad happened, Luna. The Queen... the Queen fainted.""What did you say? How did that happen?" Ismail frowned and asked anxiously as he followed Helen out.As soon as I heard that the Queen fainted, I immediately got off the bed and chased after them to the emergency room."Her Majes
Lillian's POVHanging up the phone, I called Rebecca and asked her to help me reach out to Sofia.Sofia's husband was the CEO of Starlight Hospital, which was equal in standing to Hogen Hospital, a large private hospital.I would have to ask Sofia for help every time I encountered something, and that made me feel really guilty. I had little choice but to ask Rebecca for this favor.The three of us decided to meet at a coffee shop opposite Starlight Hospital. Despite being in the same city, it had been half a year since we last met.I looked at Sofia. She was still so pure, like a breath of fresh air, or a flower that bloomed in the cold. How in God's name had I even fallen out with her?The last time we'd met was in the second week after my wedding, during which I'd spent time contemplating if I should tell my best friends the truth about my marriage.But the last thing I would have expected was for Sofia to spring up from the couch after hearing what I'd disclosed. She'd picked up th