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

tossed the report into the trash

this time, she

didn't prepare dinner for herself. She just leaned back

rumbling in her

her-she was hard of hearing, which,

never allow her

o'clock in the morning, the pendulum

home in an

the couch. She got up hastily and

a meticulous man who was strict about punctuality, not only with himself but also

home at six o'clock

man. Clad in a smart tailored suit, his demeanor was quiet

he

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

over and over again. She wore the same dark clothes

been for the business alliance and the Snyders' deceit, Xavier

ears returned. She swallowed, feeling a lump in her throat, and said bravely, "Xav, do you have someone

eyes darkened.

raised her head and stared at him, swallowing the bile rising in the back of her throat.

Xavier interrupted

...

balcony alone,

clarity. She took off her hearing aids, letting the world around her fall into

a pathological change in your auditory nerves and some of your cranial

and turned on the television. She turned up the volume

with Daphne Reyes, an

hands trembled slightly as she gripped the

was Xavier's first

and relaxed in front

she had returned to her home country, her answer was bold. "I came home to

Yvette's hands.

rain outside seemed to get

went to the table to clean up the uneaten breakfast. When she got to the kitchen, she found that Xavier

it up and saw the unread

unhappy over the

her. How about we meet up tonight?

blankly at the messages until the screen went dark

she called a

out of the window. The

liked it when Yvette visited him at his office, so whenever

her, he just greeted her impassively, "Ms.

Yvette his wife. She was nothing but a smear

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