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."

her realizing it, the pregnancy report she was holding got scrunched up

Yvette tossed the report into the trash

this time,

just leaned back on the couch,

rumbling in her ear

of hearing, which, to

allow her to carry

the pendulum clock on the

home

too late that she had fallen asleep on the couch. She got up hastily and went to the kitchen to prepare

meticulous man who was strict about punctuality, not

at

smart tailored suit, his demeanor was quiet and reserved,

he

He walked right past her to look at the food on the table and said with

over and over again. She wore the same dark

for the business alliance and the Snyders' deceit,

rumbling in Yvette's ears returned. She swallowed, feeling a lump in her

His eyes darkened. "What

him, swallowing the bile rising in the back of her throat. "If you love someone

Xavier

...

left, Yvette sat on the balcony alone, staring

clarity. She took off her

had told her, "Ms. Snyder, there's been a pathological change in your auditory nerves and some of your

room and turned on the television. She turned

television was showing an interview with Daphne Reyes, an internationally

hands trembled slightly as she gripped the

was Xavier's first

a long time since Yvette had seen 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 begged the Snyders for

returned to her home country, her answer was

hands. Her heart also fell to

outside seemed

clean up the uneaten breakfast. When

and saw the unread messages on

you must have been unhappy over the past few years,

know you don't love her. How about we meet up tonight? I've missed

blankly at the messages until

a

way, she stared out of the window. The

whenever she was there, she would

saw her, he just greeted her impassively, "Ms.

one around Xavier considered Yvette his wife. She was nothing but a smear on his

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