All Chapters of Where Love Ends: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

I dragged my feet back to my room in a daze, the sight of Victor’s hand on Rachel’s belly replaying endlessly in my head. That scene overlapped with the memory of him placing his ear carefully to my belly after finding out I was pregnant.I knew he wanted kids. I thought he loved me.Now, his love felt so fake and cheap.Every nurse on this floor looked at me with envy.“I’ve never seen a man book the entire OBGYN department for his wife before.”“He even hired twelve nurses to watch her 24/7!”“You should’ve seen how hard he wept when he found out about the miscarriage.”If I had not witnessed that scene at the doctor’s office, I would have felt like the happiest woman in the world. Now, their words were simply ironic to my ears.When I was about to reach my room, I saw a basket of fruit flying through the door. The fruits smashed into rotten puddles on the floor.“With all of you watching over her, how could you lose sight of her? What do I pay you for, you idiots?!”It was

“Are you alright, Mrs. Gayes? Did you hurt yourself anywhere?” Before long, a few nurses surrounded me. They exchanged looks and did not say anything, focusing on comforting me.They probably knew that my husband Victor Gayes had betrayed me. He had even robbed me of my fertility. I could not hold back my grief any longer. Once I was back in my room, I buried my face in the pillow and wept for ages.At some point, I cried myself to sleep. When I woke up, Rachel was the only one by my bedside, her expression mocking me. “You know everything, don’t you? I’m pregnant with Victor’s baby, his only baby.”Rachel picked up an orange and ate it, rubbing her belly as she taunted me.“W-When did you start the affair?” I clenched my fists, my nails digging into my palms. The pain was nothing compared to the agony in my heart.Rachel scoffed and held up three fingers. “Three years ago, when I joined the company. He didn’t bring you to a party, and I accepted many drinks on his behalf as his

Victor searched the whole hospital to no avail, then he broke the speed limit to rush home. Of course, there were no traces of me left for him to find.He blew up my phone and bombarded me with texts, but I had blocked him ages ago. He tore the divorce papers to shreds, ignoring all of Rachel’s calls.“I don’t care where you’re hiding, Nina! I’ll find you again!”Meanwhile, I reached a place where the sun always shone. I basked in the sunlight, took in the ocean breeze, walking freely amidst the crowd. After a few days’ rest, I found a local hospital and did a full-body checkup. As I thought, my uterus was gone.The doctor consoled me when he saw how upset I was. I forced a smile and said I was fine.I was not fine. I had been hoping for a baby for five years.As a child, I never had my parents’ love. Just as I was lost and wondering why, Victor appeared in my life.He gave me all his love. He showed me what it meant to be happy, to be loved.My childhood taught me that not a

At some point, a young man named Silas Kent became my neighbor. After he moved in, my house became much livelier.We watched movies, went out for meals, and traveled together like old friends. Our relationship was close and natural. He even wrote down my preferences in his notepad.When I was on my period, he would bring me a pot of tea. There were times when his figure would overlap with Victor’s in my memory.I knew they were different, though. Silas was kind and gentle, and he never yelled at anyone. He even told me once that he had someone he liked.Once after a flood, I was forced to move in with Silas temporarily.Movietime after dinner was when I was most emotionally frail. “Was my cooking too salty or did I give you too much water to drink? Why are you always crying after dinner lately?” Silas gave me a plate of fruit salad and changed the TV to a comedy.He never asked me about my past. He only said to look forward to the future. I knew that he was right, of course

A week later, I was working part-time at the mall collecting donations for an orphanage. To my surprise, I encountered Rachel.She stood rooted to the spot, her eyes red as she stared at me. “Are you really giving up on him, just like that? After everything he did for you…“Do you still blame him after reading the report? He pasted it together piece by piece. After he found out about your sickness, he cried every time he read it…”I pretended not to see or hear her, arranging the things on the table.“Nina, Victor needs you. All I ask is that you tell him not to fire me! I can accept a change in my position, I’ll take any position! I need this job to raise my baby…”“Keep me out of your matters. I don’t have anything to do with you or him anymore,” I said calmly. Rachel froze.My disappointment in Victor had piled up like scars on my body. There was no way I could forget them all. Even if he truly loved me at one point, I no longer wanted any of his love.Rachel suddenly fell