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

promise had already been made, a mutual benefit

unexpectedly changed their minds. They transferred all of their assets, including the several billion

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

crumpled the pregnancy test report in her hand into a

tossed

month, at this particular time, she would feel especially

on

rumbling noise in

was hard of hearing, which,

could Nathaniel possibly allow her to have a child

emitted a

was five in

another hour, Nathaniel

realize that she had unknowingly spent the

prepare breakfast for Nathaniel,

had to attend her father’s funeral and forgot to return on

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

six o’clock, Nathaniel returned

tall and slender figure exuding a restrained elegance.

his reflection was nothing

a chair and sat down.

Cecilia was taken aback.

something else, but the words she

I do something

stayed impassive for the past

want is a wife, not a

gray attire. Even when responding to text messages, she would

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

simply not his

a wife, not

Cecilia’s ears grew

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

“Okay.”

Nathaniel found himself feeling particularly moody, even his favorite breakfast on the table seemed unusually

to his feet, pulling the

her courage and seized his

there someone

eyes to darken. “What do you

up at the person standing

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

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

sentence, Nathaniel had already cut her

“You’re crazy.”

life is