All Chapters of A Joint Divorce: Like Mother, Like Daughter: Chapter 1 - Chapter 8

Mom pressed her lips in a thin line.She took a very long time to calm herself down. That way, it wouldn't sound too obvious that she was on the verge of tears."Okay. Let's divorce as well. Tracy is your first love, and of course, she is more important than me. We're only strangers who met halfway through life, after all. Besides, Tracy is someone you've loved since you were young but never had a chance with."Now that she's back, you can finally go after her. You should chase after your love."Thomas started roaring even louder through the phone. He was vastly different from the person I had heard earlier, gently coaxing and comforting Tracy."Divorce again? So, you and your daughter think marriages are just a joke? That it means nothing to you both? You told me before that you left your ex-husband because he had a bad character. It's obvious now that you were the problem all along! You get jealous of everything!"Did you get water in your brain because of the storm just now? T

I suddenly started to laugh as I spoke. I laughed so hard that I gradually began to cry. They were small sobs at first, but eventually, I began to howl and wail.The baby…My poor baby…I lost him when he was about to be born…And everything was his father's fault!Walter was to blame for ignoring us and answering some other woman's calls! It was also because of the baby's grandfather, who went to treat some other woman's dog instead!Walter stared at me in my state, completely frozen in place. A long while later, he finally snapped back to the present. His eyes were red and ferocious."Penelope Rosewood, you goddamn maniac! How could you kill your own baby? You killed it because you were mad at me, weren't you? I told you I was busy! I told you I had other things to attend to! Why the hell did you refuse to listen to me?"You bitch! You made a huge fuss and refused to go home for days just to make me mad! You killed our baby! I hope you get nightmares for the rest of your life

I was just a waitress when I first met Walter. He was a regular customer at the restaurant I worked at. He would come and sit in the same spot every single day without fail. That was how I got to know him. He sent me home once when it was raining quite heavily, and that was how everything started for us.It was a very sweet and romantic start, but it also ended like a nightmare.There hadn't been anyone who came between us trying to tear us apart. He also didn't have a returning first love. It had only ended because he thought his father's "friend" was more important than I was—so important that he didn't even care about his own unborn baby's life.That was the only dealbreaker between us.I kept trying to get them to stand up, but they refused and just kept apologizing. In the end, Mom told me to pack up the kiosk so that we could go home and sleep.We were getting our divorces no matter what."Walter, I've already lost my baby. Can't we at least separate on a good note?""No

Walter was in the operating theater for five hours.The three of us waited anxiously in the hallway, sometimes taking turns.Neither Mom nor I had the heart to bring up the divorce proceedings at such a crucial moment. I even went to pay the deposit for the operation costs, which was about 20,000 dollars.Finally, the red light went off, and Walter was wheeled out of the theater. He was still unconscious."Doctor, what's my son's condition?""His life is no longer in danger, but if he doesn't wake up in 48 hours, he will forever remain in a vegetative state. It's now completely up to the patient whether he wants to wake up from it or not," the doctor answered with a sigh.It was now up to him whether he wanted to wake up or not?I looked at Walter.If he dared to remain asleep forever, that meant he was purposely delaying my divorce from him. And I would never allow that.I had to divorce him, no matter what!Walter was wheeled into the ICU. There were specialized nurses ther