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

a mutual benefit shared between

They transferred all of their assets, including

eyes, but she responded to Nathaniel’s message with a

the pregnancy test report in

tossed it

month, at this particular time, she would

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

heard a rumbling noise

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

her to have

wall clock emitted a dull

was five

Nathaniel

did Cecilia realize that she had

to prepare breakfast for Nathaniel, fearing even a moment’s

for time. Once, Cecilia had

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

o’clock,

exuding a restrained elegance. His handsome

reflection was nothing but cold

out a chair and sat down. “You don’t need to make breakfast for me

Cecilia was taken aback.

was instinct or something else, but the words she uttered

do something

had stayed impassive for the past three years. His lips parted

want is a wife,

Even when responding to

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

was simply not his

a wife, not a

Cecilia’s ears

lump formed in her throat, and yet, she uttered the word that Nathaniel disliked

“Okay.”

particularly moody, even his favorite breakfast on the table seemed

pulling the

his surprise, Cecilia mustered her

is there someone you

sudden question caused Nathaniel’s eyes to darken. “What

looked up at the person standing before

was not just her husband of three years, but also the man she had pursued and loved for

throat, Cecilia thought about Paula’s words and said,

sentence, Nathaniel had

“You’re crazy.”