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."

it, the pregnancy report she

she got home, Yvette tossed the report into the

around this time,

She just leaned back on the couch, blearily drifting in and

in her ear

hearing, which, to the rich and powerful, was no better

her to carry

the morning, the pendulum

would be home in an

couch. She got up hastily and went

not only with himself but also with the

home at six o'clock

and handsome man. Clad in a smart tailored suit, his demeanor was quiet and reserved, yet undoubtedly

he was cold

the food on the table and

over and over again.

alliance and the Snyders' deceit, Xavier

the word "nanny", the rumbling in Yvette's ears returned. She swallowed, feeling a lump

Xavier. His eyes darkened. "What

stared at him, swallowing the bile rising in the

finish, Xavier interrupted

...

balcony alone, staring out into the

She took off her hearing aids,

"Ms. Snyder, there's been a pathological change in your auditory nerves and

the television. She turned up the volume to the max, which allowed

was showing an interview with Daphne

slightly as she

was Xavier's first

her, but Daphne was still as pretty as ever. She was confident and relaxed in front of the cameras, unlike the shy and frightened young woman who had

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

hands. Her heart also fell to

outside seemed to get

went to the table to clean up the uneaten breakfast. When she

the unread messages on the lock

you must have been unhappy over the

her. How about we meet up tonight?

at the messages until

called a cab to

stared out of the window. The

him at his office, so whenever she was

her, he just greeted her impassively,

considered Yvette his wife. She was nothing but a smear

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