- 5.
A police officer stepped forward, holding up
his phone. The video showed me, my white
dress soaked in blood, lying unconscious on a
stretcher, the blood staining the stretcher
crimson.
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Chapter 2
The moment I saw it, Ethan’s pupils
constricted. The officer’s next words nailed
him to the spot.
“Mr. Hayes, our investigation reveals that the
mastermind behind the attack on your fiancée
is Ms. Olivia.”
“…What?!”
Ethan was stunned, his handsome face a
mask of disbelief and terror.
“Claire… she can’t have had a miscarriage.
She loves me, she wants to marry me, she
wouldn’t do that to herself. This is fake, it’s
all fake…
“”
The hospital director gestured to a nurse to
help Ethan’s mother, who was close to
fainting. He approached Ethan, his voice
laced with disappointment.
“Claire took a knife for you, and this is how
you repay her?! You’ve utterly let me down.
You’re suspended, effective immediately. This
hospital doesn’t need a cold–blooded snake
like you!”
Ethan’s face was pale. He ignored the
suspension notice, instead grabbing the nurse
who’d presented it.
“Claire? Where is she?”
The nurse repulsively shook off his hand, her
voice frigid.
“Ms. Claire was brutally kicked in the
abdomen. Her uterus is irreparably damaged,
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and her internal organs were injured. The
blood transfusion was delayed, and she nearly
died. She’s barely clinging to life in the ICU,
in a coma.”
Ethan’s lips trembled; his eyes were red. He
tried to rush to the ICU.
“Claire… please be okay… I’m so sorry… I’m
so sorry, I shouldn’t have-”
“Slap!”
Another sharp sound.
Ethan’s mother shouted,
“You beast! What good is your regret now?!
Where were you before?!”
Ethan was dazed, instinctively replying,
“Be–before, I…
وو
He stammered, trying to defend himself, but
nothing came out.
Olivia was now under arrest, tears in her eyes,
her innocent gaze fixed on Ethan. She
trembled, pleading for help.
“Ethan… save me!”
Her world revolved around Ethan.
Four years of being his favorite had given her
a false sense of security. She believed she
could do anything to me and get away with it.
Taking my uterus and my child was nothing, a
mere inconvenience. I was an orphan raised
by my grandfather; as long as Ethan
intervened, the police couldn’t touch her.
A triumphant gleam flashed in Olivia’s eyes.
Seeing Ethan’s unwavering gaze, she
assumed he was working on a solution,
squeezing out more tears, her expression
increasingly pitiful.
She bit her lip, pleading softly,
“Ethan… I’m scared…”
She knew Ethan had zero resistance to this
look. He’d said she looked like Claire when
she was 18.
And he did react.
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“Save me, I’m innocent!”
Olivia waited eagerly, but instead of help,
Ethan delivered a stinging kick to her ribs,
leaving her pale.
“Olivia, why?!”
Ethan was a raging beast, his beloved
destroyed.
“Why did you hurt her?!”
Olivia panicked, but quickly recovered, crying
even harder,
“I’m sorry, Ethan. Claire called me a slut, said she’d kill me. I was so scared… I didn’t mean to kick her… I’m so sorry, punish me however you want, I’ll go to jail. Just forgive me, I’ll even kill myself!”
She feigned a suicide attempt, but Ethan
caught her.
His anger had subsided when she began to explain; the kick had been for show.
Olivia was such a sweet girl. Claire must have
く
provoked her.
He panicked, hugging Olivia tightly,
comforting her,
“Don’t worry, Olivia, I was wrong. I’ll get the
best lawyers for you.‘
Olivia’s eyes brightened; burying her face in
Ethan’s chest, she choked out,
“Thank God you’re here.”
