After My Husband's First Love Hurt My Son

My only son, Luke, had only wished see the snowy mountains with his father on his fifth birthday.

After much begging from Luke, my husband, Aaron Wilson, obliged him, with the only request being that our son go to the pool to retrieve the earrings of his first love.

What Aaron didn't realize was that his son had never learned to swim. Yet, determined to fulfill his's wish to spend a special birthday together, he bravely stepped into the icy pool. The freezing water claimed him in a tragic turn of events—he drowned.

By the time I arrived with the news, my son was already freezing and dying.

“Mom, I found the earrings that Aunt Serena dropped. Is Dad….”

His unfinished words lingered in the cold air as my son's hand fell limp by his side, the faint clink of his earring hitting the ground echoing in my ears.

I broke down, desperately dialing my husband's number over and over, but he never picked up. Instead, a notification flashed across my phone—the latest post from his first love: 'Thank you for lighting a fireworks display just for me.'

In that moment, the last thread of my delusional hope snapped. I made my decision—I would drag them both down into the abyss with me!

——

Forty-eight hours after my son's death, I handled the funeral alone, propping up my exhausted body.

Prior to this, I had fantasized countless times about my son's future, yet what I didn't expect was that his life would end on the eve of his fifth birthday.

Everyone at the funeral sympathized with my son's passing.

Only the child's father, Aaron, had no news, and I was unable to contact him by any means, but I saw the video of him setting off a drone fireworks show in the snowy mountains for his first love, Serena Atkinson, on all the major news headlines.

At this moment, the seven years of marriage finally collapsed.

Holding the ashes of my son, I had no interest to eat or drink in the home hall waiting for him for two whole days. But one day, finally the waiting for the wind and snow stopped, returned to him.

When he saw me, he opened his mouth with a fiery accusation.

“I asked my son to look for the earrings. Did he find them? If he did, hurry up and give them to me. Those are Serena’s favorite earrings, do you know that!”

I watched with scarlet eyes as he looked around his home for that earring as if nothing had happened.

“Aaron, do you know it's winter and how cold it is in the pool? Not to mention Luke won't….”

Aaron waved his hand impatiently.

“Don't talk about this, it's just for him to find a pair of earrings. What can it be!”

I was so angry at his words that I was dizzy, the intense throbbing of my heart was too much for me to bear, I quickly grabbed the medicine I always drank and swallowed it.

Aaron looked at me with a playful smile.

“What the hell are you doing? Is it a new tactic? Just because Serena has a heart condition, so you also want to take the same medicine as her?”

“I'm telling you, no matter how much you pretend, you're not her. Quickly let my son take out Serena's earrings, then I'll take him to apologize to Serena!”

Aaron's tone had a few shocks in it. My anger surged up, then I slapped him hard on his face, and

“Aaron, my son didn't do anything wrong and doesn't need to apologize!”

Aaron looked at me viciously, reaching out his hand to pinch my neck.

“It's all because of a single-minded calculating mom like you that Luke’s attitude became that bad. I'm warning you, bring him out quickly!”

I struggled desperately but didn't dare to let go of the box in my hand, it was my son's ashes.

Aaron's words made my heart die. The force in his hand was ruthless almost sending me to the Yellow Springs Road.

He looked at me almost suffocating and ruthlessly threw me to the ground.

I forcefully protected the box in my arms, gasping for air with the tears in my eyes involuntarily flowed out.

“Aaron, you don't deserve to be Luke’s father!”

I wanted to break down and shouted out, but Aaron looked at me with fiddling disgust in his eyes.

“It’s you who don't know how to educate a child. So I'll do it for you. What's wrong with that!”

I slowly climbed up from the ground, the crumpling of my heart made me almost faint, while Aaron never cared about me, even he never put his own son in his heart.

I gritted my teeth and said cruelly, “Let's divorce.”

Aaron sniffed and his face became even more furious, he slammed his fist on the sofa and said angrily to me, “Just because of this shit you want to divorce me, are you sick?!”

His words were like sharp blades stabbing my heart.

I covered the spot of my heart and my breath became short.

“This little shit, do you know that Luke is no longer around!”

“But it's just picking up something could he still be dead? Okay, you quickly let him out, I've already bought him tickets to Snow Mountain!”

He threw the two tickets directly towards my face, with impatience in his eyes.

“Tell him to get the hell out of here and I'll promise to accompany him to see the snowy mountains!”

I reached out, clutched those two tickets into a ball and threw them at Aaron's face.

“No need.”

I looked at Aaron with a bitter smile. By now, he was still using Luke's wish to defend his white moonlight.

I covered my chest and blushed hard, yet he never knew I had a heart condition.

Even when Luke died, he, the father, was able to be absent.

And when it came to her first love who had lost her earrings, he was able to force his son to jump into the pool in the winter to find them.

He casually took out a pair of earrings and threw them at me. The style of the earrings was exactly the same as the pair which Serena lost.

He was too lazy to put in a little bit of effort for me, so when he made up for Serena, he also picked the same ones for me by hand.

My heart was bitter. How could my son give his life for such a pair of earrings…

Once upon a time, I loved Aaron so much that I could ignore everything for him.

Now that my son was gone, what else did he have left for me to hold on to?

“Aaron, didn't you want a divorce a long time ago? Alright, now I agree.”

“Ellie, do you know what it means to give you a step down, you really think you're a person worthy of mentioning divorce to me!”

The harsh words came out of his mouth. He turned around and closed the door fiercely seemingly venting his dissatisfaction.

I held my son's urn as if I were dead and glanced at the empty house.

All the memories of my son and I for five years were here. Tears welled up in my eyes and I took a heartless step to leave the place.