When Her "Death" Couldn't Break Him (Cecilia and Nathaniel)

Chapter 1 First Love

A heavy rain began to pour relentlessly.

At the entrance of the hospital.

Standing at the hospital entrance, Cecilia Smith clutched the pregnancy test report in her delicate, frail hand. The result was unmistakable: not pregnant.

“Three years into marriage and you’re still not pregnant?”

“You’re so useless. If you don’t get pregnant soon, the Rainsworth family will kick you out. What will become of the Smith family then?”

Dressed to the nines and teetering on her high heels, Paula Escobar, Cecilia’s mother, pointed at her, her face a mask of disappointment.

Cecilia’s eyes were empty. The words she longed to speak were stuck in her heart, finally condensing into a single sentence.

“I’m sorry.”

“I don’t want you to apologize. What I want is for you to have a child with Nathaniel. Do you understand?”

Cecilia’s throat felt parched. She was unsure of how to respond to her.

They had been married for three years, yet her husband, Nathaniel Rainsworth, had never laid a hand on her.

How could there possibly be a child?

Upon seeing her display of helplessness, Paula felt she was nothing like herself.

“If you really can’t manage, then help Nathaniel find a woman outside. He will surely remember your kindness.”

Cecilia stared in disbelief at the retreating figure of her mother, unable to comprehend what had just happened.

Her biological mother, astonishingly, had asked her to find another woman for her own husband.

A chill instantly froze her heart to its core.

As Cecilia sat in the car heading home, Paula’s last words echoed in her mind, accompanied by a sudden, intermittent roaring in her ears.

She knew her illness had worsened.

At that moment, she received a text message.

The message came from Nathaniel, as consistent as ever over the past three years. It read: I won’t be coming home tonight.

Throughout their three years of marriage, Nathaniel had never spent a single night at home, nor did he ever touch her.

Cecilia still remembered their wedding night three years ago.

He had said, “Since you from the Smith family dare to trick me into marriage, then be ready to face a lifetime of solitude.”

ago, the Smith and Rainsworth families had

had already been made, a

on the day of the wedding, the Smith family unexpectedly changed their minds. They transferred

she responded to Nathaniel’s message with a simple

it, she had crumpled the pregnancy test report in

she got home, she tossed it into the

month, at this particular time, she would feel

and spent a while leaning on the couch, drifting in and out

a rumbling noise in

a reason why Nathaniel despised her. She was hard of hearing,

Nathaniel possibly allow her to have a child in such

emitted

five in the

hour, Nathaniel would be

Cecilia realize that she had unknowingly spent

breakfast for Nathaniel,

meticulous in his work, with a stringent regard for time. Once, Cecilia had to attend her father’s funeral

single message nor spoke a word

six o’clock, Nathaniel returned

in a suit, his tall and slender figure exuding a restrained elegance. His handsome

in Cecilia’s eyes, his reflection was nothing

he pulled out a chair and sat down. “You don’t need to

Cecilia was taken aback.

was instinct or something else, but the words she uttered reflected

do

his eyes meeting Cecilia’s face, which had stayed impassive for the past three years.

want is a

years, Cecilia was always seen wearing the same light gray attire. Even when responding to text messages, she would

it weren’t for the business alliance and the deception of

was simply not his

is a

in Cecilia’s ears

throat, and yet, she uttered the

“Okay.”

feeling particularly moody, even his favorite breakfast on the table seemed unusually

the chair back in

Cecilia mustered her courage

there someone you

Nathaniel’s eyes

at the person standing

but also the man

her throat, Cecilia thought about Paula’s words and said, “Nathaniel, if there’s someone you

she could finish her sentence, Nathaniel had already cut her

“You’re crazy.”