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 had formed a business alliance through

been made, a mutual benefit

the Smith family unexpectedly changed their minds. They transferred all of their assets, including the several billion given to

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

crumpled the pregnancy test

tossed

particular time, she would feel especially

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

heard a rumbling noise

also a reason why Nathaniel despised her. She was hard of hearing, which, in high

allow her to have a child in such a

emitted a

five

another hour, Nathaniel would

she had unknowingly spent the entire

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

had to attend her

didn’t send her a single message nor

six o’clock, Nathaniel

impeccably dressed in a suit, his tall and slender figure exuding a restrained elegance. His handsome features were striking,

in Cecilia’s eyes, his reflection was nothing but cold

chair and sat down. “You don’t need to make

Cecilia was taken aback.

the words

do

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

I want is a wife, not a

light gray attire. Even

and the deception of the Smith

was simply not his

a

ringing in Cecilia’s ears grew

she uttered the word that Nathaniel disliked the

“Okay.”

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

his feet, pulling the chair back in irritation, ready

her courage and seized his

is there

sudden question caused Nathaniel’s eyes to darken.

the person

three years, but also the

thought about Paula’s words and

finish her sentence, Nathaniel had already cut her

“You’re crazy.”

life is all about continuously letting