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."

she was holding got scrunched

she got home, Yvette tossed the report into

month, around this time, she would

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

rumbling in her

hated her-she was hard of hearing, which, to the rich

her to

5 o'clock in the morning, the pendulum

would be home in

had fallen asleep on the couch. She

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

home at six o'clock

a smart tailored suit, his demeanor

to Yvette, he was cold

on the table and said with

had been doing the same things over and over again. She wore the same

the business alliance and the Snyders' deceit, Xavier

ears returned. She swallowed, feeling a lump in

His eyes darkened.

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

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

...

the balcony alone, staring out into the

raindrops drifted in and out of clarity. She took

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

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

interview with Daphne

hands trembled slightly as she

was Xavier's

was confident and relaxed

Daphne why she had returned to her home country, her

hands. Her heart also

outside seemed to

off the television and went to the table to clean up the uneaten breakfast. When she got to the kitchen,

saw the unread messages on

been unhappy over the past few years,

about we meet up tonight? I've

stared blankly at the messages until the

a cab to

of the window. The rain fell incessantly.

at his office, so whenever she was there, she would take the

Mark Xyrax, saw her, he just greeted her

She

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