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.”

and Rainsworth families had formed a business alliance through

been made, a mutual benefit shared between

minds. They transferred all of their assets, including

to Nathaniel’s message with a simple “okay”

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

tossed it into

month, at this particular time,

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

a rumbling noise in

why Nathaniel despised her. She was hard of hearing,

Nathaniel possibly allow her to have a child in such

emitted a dull

was five

Nathaniel

she had unknowingly spent the entire night asleep on the

hurriedly got up to prepare breakfast for

regard for time. Once, Cecilia had to attend her father’s funeral and forgot

send her a single message nor spoke a word to her for an entire

o’clock, Nathaniel returned

figure exuding a restrained elegance. His handsome features were striking, yet

Cecilia’s eyes, his reflection was

at Cecilia, he pulled out a chair and

Cecilia was taken aback.

else, but the words she uttered reflected a humility she

do

had stayed impassive for the past three years. His lips

is a wife, not a

always seen wearing the same light gray attire. Even when responding to text

the deception of the Smith

simply not his

a wife, not

in Cecilia’s ears grew

formed in her throat, and yet, she

“Okay.”

moody, even his favorite

pulling the chair back in irritation, ready

surprise, Cecilia mustered her courage and seized his

is there someone

caused Nathaniel’s eyes

looked up at the person standing before

also the man she had pursued and

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

she could finish her sentence, Nathaniel had already

“You’re crazy.”