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 was holding got scrunched up in her

she got home, Yvette tossed the report into the

time, she would

just leaned back on

in

hard of hearing, which,

her to carry his

morning, the pendulum clock on

would be home in an

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

strict about punctuality, not only with himself but also with the people around

home at six

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

he

didn't even look at Yvette. He walked right past her to look at the food on the table and said with a scoff, "You

things over and over again. She wore the same

alliance and the Snyders' deceit, Xavier would never have married a

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

sudden question surprised Xavier. His eyes

at him, swallowing the bile rising in the back of her throat. "If

she could finish, Xavier interrupted her. "You're

...

on the balcony alone, staring out into the

She took off

month ago, her doctor had told 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 on, you may lose your

to a silent world, Yvette went to the living room and turned on the television. She turned up the volume to the max, which allowed her to hear

with Daphne Reyes, an internationally renowned singer

hands trembled slightly as she gripped the remote

was Xavier's

ever. She was confident and relaxed in front of

her home country,

out of Yvette's hands. Her heart also

rain outside seemed

turned off the television and went to the table to clean up the uneaten breakfast. When she got to the kitchen, she found that Xavier had forgotten to

up and saw the unread messages on the lock

have been unhappy

know you don't love her. How about we

the messages until the

called a cab

stared out of the window. The rain fell incessantly.

at his office, so whenever she was there,

Xavier's assistant, Mark Xyrax, saw her, he just greeted her

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

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