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.”

years ago, the Smith and Rainsworth families had formed a business alliance

a

wedding, the Smith family unexpectedly changed their minds. They transferred all of their assets, including the several billion given to

crossed Cecilia’s eyes, but she responded to

it, she had crumpled the pregnancy test report in her hand into a

got home, she tossed it into

particular time, she would feel

and spent a while leaning on the couch,

rumbling

also a reason why Nathaniel despised her. She was hard of hearing, which, in high society, was akin to having a

allow her to have a child in

emitted a

five in the

another hour, Nathaniel would be

Cecilia realize that she had unknowingly spent the entire night asleep

to prepare breakfast for

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

nor spoke a word

o’clock,

suit, his tall and slender figure exuding a restrained elegance. His handsome features were striking, yet they didn’t lack a

reflection was nothing but cold and

out a chair and sat down. “You don’t

Cecilia was taken aback.

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

I do

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

I want is a

attire. Even when responding to

it weren’t for the business alliance and the deception of the Smith family, Nathaniel wouldn’t have married

was simply

I want is a wife, not a

ringing in Cecilia’s ears grew

throat, and yet, she uttered the

“Okay.”

favorite breakfast

to his feet, pulling the chair back in irritation, ready to

mustered her courage

there someone you

sudden question caused Nathaniel’s eyes to

looked up at the person standing before

her husband of three years, but also the man she had pursued and loved for

words and said, “Nathaniel, if

her sentence, Nathaniel had already

“You’re crazy.”