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.”

the Smith and Rainsworth families had formed a

a

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

crossed Cecilia’s eyes, but she responded to Nathaniel’s message

had crumpled the pregnancy test

she got home, she tossed it into the trash

time, she

while leaning on the couch,

heard a rumbling

her. She was hard of hearing, which, in high society, was akin to having

could Nathaniel possibly allow her to have a child in such

emitted

five in the

another hour, Nathaniel would

Cecilia realize that she had unknowingly spent the

hurriedly got up to prepare breakfast for

meticulous in his work, with a stringent regard for time. Once, Cecilia had

he didn’t send her a single message nor spoke a word to her for an

six o’clock, Nathaniel

restrained elegance. His handsome features were striking, yet they didn’t lack a certain masculine

reflection was nothing but cold

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

Cecilia was taken aback.

something else, but the words she uttered reflected a humility

I do

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

is a wife, not a

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

deception of the Smith family, Nathaniel

was simply not

want is a

in Cecilia’s ears grew

her throat, and yet, she uttered the

“Okay.”

himself feeling particularly moody, even his favorite breakfast on the table

feet, pulling the chair back in irritation, ready

mustered her courage

there someone

eyes to darken. “What do you

at the person

just her husband of three years, but also the man

words

her sentence, Nathaniel had already

“You’re crazy.”