Chapter 1

It was a dreary day with constant rain.

Yvette Snyder stood at the entrance of the hospital, her body frail, clutching a pregnancy report in her thin hands. Three words on the report stood out: "No pregnancy detected".

"You've been married for three years. How are you not pregnant?" Her mother, Yara Cadwell, demanded, jabbing a finger in Yvette's face disappointedly. Yara was dressed lavishly and wore high heels.

"Why are you so useless? If you don't get pregnant soon, the Lanes are going to kick you out of the family. What's going to happen to our family then?"

Yvette looked at Yara blankly. She had a lot to say, but the words were stuck in her throat. In the end, all she could manage was, "I'm sorry."

"I don't want you to be sorry. I want you to give birth to Xavier's child. Do you understand me?"

Yvette's throat felt tight; she didn't know how to answer Yara.

In their three years of marriage, her husband, Xavier Lane, had never slept with her.

How could she ever have his child?

Yara stared at Yvette. The latter's weak demeanor was so unlike her own.

Finally, she said coldly before leaving, "If you really can't give him a child, then find him a woman who can. At least he'll appreciate you for that."

Yvette stared after Yara's retreating figure in disbelief.

Had her own mother just told her to find another woman for her husband to sleep with?

Her heart felt as cold as the freezing rain.

As Yvette made her journey home, she couldn't stop thinking about Yara's parting words. Suddenly, a loud ringing in her ear drowned out her thoughts.

She knew that her condition had worsened.

Just then, she received a message on her phone.

It was from Xavier, and the content was the same as always. "I'm not coming home tonight."

In the past three years they had been married, Xavier had never spent the night at home before. He had never so much as touched Yvette either.

Yvette could remember their wedding night three years ago. He had told her, "Since your family is bold enough to trick me into marrying you, you'd better be prepared to spend the rest of your life in loneliness."

Spending the rest of her life in loneliness...

Three years ago, the Snyder and Lane families had decided to form an alliance through marriage.

Both families had agreed to mutually beneficial terms in the agreement. But when the day of the wedding came around, the Snyder family went back on their word and transferred all of their assets away, including the billions of dollars that Xavier had paid to marry Yvette.

Yvette's eyes dulled at the memory. She replied to Xavier's text with her usual response: "Okay."

the pregnancy report she was holding got scrunched up in her

home, Yvette tossed the

month, around this time,

prepare dinner for herself. She just leaned back on the couch, blearily drifting in

rumbling in

of hearing, which, to the

her to carry

the pendulum clock on the

be home

fallen asleep on the couch. She got up hastily and went to the kitchen to prepare

meticulous man who was strict about punctuality, not only with himself but also with the people around

arrived home at six o'clock

tall and handsome man. Clad in a smart tailored suit, his demeanor was

to Yvette, he

the table and said with a scoff, "You do this every day. Are you a

over again. She wore the same dark clothes

the Snyders' deceit, Xavier

rumbling in Yvette's ears returned. She swallowed, feeling a lump in her throat, and said bravely, "Xav, do you

eyes darkened. "What

in the back of her throat. "If you love

she could finish, Xavier interrupted her.

...

on the balcony

the raindrops drifted in and out of clarity. She took off her hearing

her, "Ms. Snyder, there's been a pathological change in your auditory nerves and some of your cranial nerves, causing your hearing to worsen. If this goes

silent world, Yvette went to the living room and turned on the television.

television was showing an interview with Daphne Reyes, an internationally renowned singer known

trembled slightly as she gripped the

Xavier's first

She was confident and relaxed

returned to her home country, her answer was bold. "I came home to get my first love

hands. Her heart also fell to her

outside seemed to get

the table to clean up the uneaten breakfast. When she

and saw the unread messages on the

been unhappy over the past few

love her. How about we meet up tonight? I've

messages until the screen went dark

she called a cab to

way, she stared out of the window. The rain fell incessantly. It felt like

it when Yvette visited him at his office, so whenever she was there, she would take the service elevator from the

Mark Xyrax, saw her, he

one around Xavier considered Yvette his wife. She was

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