Facade of Love

Facade of Love

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Chapter 1 The Ugly Scar

“Ms. Yvette Scott, it’ll be impossible for this scar to completely heal. You probably had an inkling of how severe your injury was the moment when it happened. All we can do is make it fade. We can’t guarantee anything else.”

I could not help but recall the doctor’s words from the hospital this afternoon as I looked at the long scar marring my abdomen in the mirror.

Was there truly no way to completely erase this scar?

After a moment, I took some ointment from the drawer and applied it to my abdomen.

Squeak…

The bathroom door opened. Hearing the noise, I instinctively looked up and met Idris‘ stern gaze in the mirror. He was tall and slender, with a handsome and cold face.

Avoiding my gaze, his eyes fell on the grotesque scar on my abdomen. His handsome eyebrows furrowed slightly for merely a moment before he silently exited the bathroom.

I caught a fleeting look of surprise in his dark eyes when his eyes landed on the scar. He masked it

well, but it could not evade me.

We had been married for two years, and we did not sleep together much. Moreover, we would always turn off the lights before making love. Perhaps he had felt it before, but in the heat of the moment, he never paid it much attention. Today was the first time he had clearly seen the ugly scar.

I put the ointment back and left the bathroom.

My husband, Idris Young, was smoking on the balcony, the end of the cigarette in his hand flickering. Looking at his back, I placed an ashtray beside him. I took a shallow breath and said, “Sorry. I didn’t know you were returning tonight.”

If I had known, I would have locked the bathroom door to avoid what just happened.

it?” He put out his cigarette in the ashtray, answering

question.

had asked about the scar. Taking

and subtly

a moment, realizing he

not…” from giving

The

left on the bed, started ringing.

His voice softened as he responded to whatever was being said on

end of the line.

his stern face soften, I felt a twinge in my heart. As he hung up and prepared to leave, I could not help

hearing my question, his expression somewhat heavy. He maintained

obvious. He was

Bang!

on the balcony and

yard.

the person he cared about the most. All he needed was a phone call, and he would drop

enough

arrangement devoid of love. Our families both

his heart did not surprise me. After all, who could stop themselves from yearning

that this first love of

and my

not for her sudden divorce two months ago accidentally running into them embracing in my family yard, I would have had no idea

melodramatic, it was also

Even though I

current situation, it seemed like the end of our mutually–beneficial marital

night, I was awakened by a phone call. Not turning off my phone before

phone, suppressing the irritation that

voice came from the other