All Chapters of A Heart Shattered by an Earthquake: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

Steven had not yet ended the call, so I could still hear Wendy's faint voice."Stevie, is Yelena also trapped? Then, you should go ahead and rescue her first. I… I can wait."Steven's brows furrowed even deeper. He turned away from me, and instead, asked Wendy how she was doing.She started sobbing. "I'm in a department store at the city center. It's pitch black here, and I think my arm is pinned down. Stevie, it really hurts…"Am I going to die here, Stevie? I'm really scared. I don't want to leave you when I haven't spent enough time with you…"Steven's eyes immediately turned red-rimmed as he heard her heartfelt confession."You won't, Wendy. I won't let anything happen to you. I'm going over to rescue you right now!"With that, he abandoned me and led the team over to save Wendy. Reuben was still worried about me, so he stood in Steven's way."Steven, what about Yelena? Her situation is precarious right now. What if there's an aftershock? And she's pregnant too—"However

In the midst of it all, I recalled the time I had spent with Steven.He hadn't always treated me like this. He used to be a secret illegitimate child who was the subject of bullying by other boys from rich families.My grandfather and I found him when he was barely alive after a beating, and we fed him his first proper meal.Grandpa could not help but pity Steven when he caught the latter doing everything he could to mend the workbooks that had been torn up by others. The sight of him injured and frantic tugged at Grandpa's heartstrings.When I was young, I was the de facto leader of that age group. With Steven under my protection, no one dared to bully him anymore.Thus, I was the person Steven was closest to up until college. I had even seen him secretly scribbling my name in his workbooks.This lasted until the underprivileged student that Grandpa sponsored, Wendy Smith, got admitted into the same college as us.She became the tail we couldn't quite shake, following Steven an

His own wife had barely made it out of the hospital alive and had even suffered a miscarriage, but Steven himself was off frolicking with his lover on his wife's birthday.They naturally turned their nose down on him.Tina's expression was stony as she struck him across the face. "You scum! Your wife nearly died, and she just had a miscarriage, yet you're blatantly running around with some other woman! You've ruined the Hough family's reputation in Luxdoun!"Steven had been slapped very hard, but a smug smile still lingered on his lips.He looked toward me and threw a stack of documents right at me. His gaze then flicked to the wheelchair I was sitting in and sneered. "Wendy's friend works at Jorlina Hospital. I was wondering how you could have suffered such extreme injuries, so Wendy had her friend check your medical records. You never had a miscarriage, nor did you have any fractures. All you had was slight abrasions and minor scrapes!"You're sinking to new lows just to vie f

"Also, my aunt is an obstetrician-gynecologist. She assisted Wendy with an abortion before. She told me about it after she saw Wendy's student ID. You'll be able to find these records if you go to the hospital that my aunt works at."Everyone gasped at this piece of news, and Steven's expression darkened.It naturally never crossed his mind that the innocent girl he had cherished so carefully was actually so promiscuous.He clenched his fists tightly, refusing to believe any of it.I, too, had not expected his love for Wendy to run so deeply.Steven pointed a finger at my face as he accused, "Even if you were innocent during those incidents, how do you explain the part where you took advantage of me being drunk and getting pregnant with my child? Don't tell me you weren't the one at fault here!"I didn't get a chance to explain the truth before Tina stepped in front of me."I was the one who had Yelena go to the bar to look for you. When you two came back, I was also the one who

I shook my head and replied calmly, "Don't forget, Steven. You're the person who killed him."He froze, and a dead silence hung over us.I soon had the butler escort him out, but not before telling him, "I will never forgive the murderer who killed my son."…On the day of Grandpa's death anniversary, I returned to Jorlina, where I ran into Jim and Tina, as well as Steven's younger sister who had been living abroad all this while.They told me that Steven had been exiled from the Hough family, and that they had named his sister as the new successor.As expected, when it came to business, any form of familial ties were negligible.Most surprising of all, Steven was taken to court on homicide charges soon after that.As it turned out, Wendy had used her unborn child to blackmail Steven into marrying her. But when she realized that Steven was no longer the wealthy Hough scion, she immediately found him to be of no use to her.Her unborn child had turned out to be Steven's after a