The Woman From Hell

Chapter 819

When it was over, I could not fall asleep for a very long time and looked at the moonlight outside the window while feeling a pang in my heart.

Just as I was finally about to fall asleep, I heard Theo moaning painfully beside me. I quickly turned on the bedside lamp and sat up to check on him.

His head was covered in sweat, his eyebrows were tightly furrowed together, and pain was written all over his face.

"What's wrong?” I was terribly anxious. "Where does it hurt?”

Theo opened his mouth slightly. "It hurts.”

"Where does it hurt?" I grabbed my phone while anxiously asking.

Theo's breathing quickened. "Wanda, don't. Don't—"

I finally realized that he was having a nightmare and quickly shook his arm. "Wake up, Theo. Wake up.”

Theo slowly opened his eyes and reacted for a few seconds before pulling me into a tight embrace. He was so strong that it hurt me. "Can you please don't go, Wanda? Please, I beg you, don't go."

I pursed my lips and could roughly guess what he had dreamt about. I put my hand on his head and comforted him softly, "I'm not leaving. I'm here."

"Don’t go!" He kept repeating these words as if he could not hear me.

When he had calmed down a little, I helped him to bed and drew out a piece of tissue at the bedside table to wipe the sweat on his forehead. "Go back to sleep.

Don't worry, I'll be here."

He nodded and pulled me into his arms. He took a deep breath. "You're my life, Wanda. You can’t leave m e or I'll die."

It was then I knew that I was not the only one struggling in pain. In the last three years, life was easier to get by with Munchkin by my side, but Theo could only suffer in the dark by himself.

I felt sorry for him and hugged him like an octopus." I'll not leave as long as you need me. I'll never leave."

He was not the only one who was lonely. Theo and I were like two puppets that had sunk down at the bottom of the ocean. We needed to hold each other to survive the darkness that was engulfing us.

time I woke up at midnight in the past, the room would be empty and the space beside me would be cold, so cold it was as though

i n Salt City. Sometimes, I'd be put in a trance thinking that I was dreaming.

lump in my throat and held his hand tighter." I'm

out a self-deprecating smile. "I've had many teachers. They all taught me how to survive in the business field and how to negotiate with people, but none of them taught me how to love someone. I was afraid of hurting you, so I refused to get close

I sniffed and said," Theo, I

had never truly put myself i n his

him, but my way

Theo swapped Cindy's and my DNA report back then, the main reason was that he was afraid he would not be able to hold onto me anymore once I became Grayson

getting away from him and told him what I really thought, our child would not have died, Cecilia would not have died, and my biological parents would not be spending their days

each other as each of us

three years of that. It's

eyes. "There won't be another three years like

me tighter. "Do you love

smiled, both certain and serious.

head, accompanied by the sentence, "I

we confessed our true

you." He suddenly thanked

"Why are you

willing to love me. Thank you for still being willing to come back

time to admire the snow scene, so it came

to kindergarten every day. This included

only to see his flushed face and quickened breathing. He

very early in the morning. I rushed to Munchkin's room and asked

Dr. Lynch?" He hesitated to

thought about it and nodded. "You can

father, after all. It would be

time at all. He was so fast that I was in

come from?" I asked

at least an hour to drive from the city,

made no reply. He sat by the bed and reached out to feel Munchkin's