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.”

Smith and Rainsworth families had formed

already been made, a mutual benefit

unexpectedly changed their minds. They transferred all of their assets,

responded to Nathaniel’s message with a simple

realizing it, she had crumpled the pregnancy test

tossed it into the

this particular time, she

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

heard a rumbling

her. She was hard of hearing,

to have a child in such

emitted

five in the

hour, Nathaniel

she had unknowingly spent the

hurriedly got up to prepare breakfast for Nathaniel, fearing

stringent regard for time. Once, Cecilia had to attend

her a single message nor spoke a

o’clock, Nathaniel returned

restrained elegance. His handsome features were striking, yet they

in Cecilia’s eyes, his reflection was nothing but

a chair and sat down.

Cecilia was taken aback.

but the words she uttered reflected a humility

do

his eyes meeting Cecilia’s face, which had stayed impassive

I want is a wife, not

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

the business alliance and the deception of the Smith family, Nathaniel wouldn’t

was simply

want is a wife,

in Cecilia’s

she uttered the word that Nathaniel disliked

“Okay.”

particularly moody, even his favorite breakfast on the table seemed

pulling the chair back in irritation, ready

his surprise, Cecilia mustered her courage

is there

Nathaniel’s eyes to

at the person standing before

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

thought about Paula’s words and said, “Nathaniel, if there’s someone you like, you

her sentence, Nathaniel had

“You’re crazy.”