When Maria came to the hospital, it was already eight o'clock in the evening, when it was already eleven hours after Stella's death.

She looked at me leaning back in my chair and smelled of alcohol.

"What's wrong? What happened to Stella? Why don't you hurry up and call her out? I have to help Logan clean up. He can't handle it alone."

It was Logan again!

She didn't even know that her daughter was dead!

I was so angry that I slapped her in the face.

"Maria, are you sure you are Stella's biological mother?"

The nurse heard me and came over, trying to separate me from her. "What's wrong with you? You can't quarrel here!"

My bloodshot eyes stared at Maria.

From beginning to end, Maria seemed to be unaware of what had happened.

"Lucas! That's enough! I know it was wrong of me to go to Logan's birthday party without telling you, but this was my own decision and has nothing to do with you."

Seeing that I was still furious, the doctors were also afraid that I would lose control and beat her to death, so they quickly joined forces to pull me away.

"Madam, are you Stella Morgan's relative?"

Maria heard the news of Stella's death in a daze, her face kept changing, and I had no idea what she was thinking.

Soon, her cell phone rang.

She was talking on the phone with Logan again.

Even though Stella died, she still cared about other people's affairs.

That was our only child!

When I got home, my mother, who came from my hometown, was already cooking.

"You guys are back? Try this soup. I made it for the whole afternoon. If it tastes good, I'll bring it to Stella. She's still young and is growing up..."

I took it and accidentally broke the soup bowl in my hand.

"Lucas, what's wrong with you?" My mother looked confused.

My eyes were red, and I really couldn't bear to tell my mother the truth.

Not only my mother but all six people in our families like Stella very much. She was our treasure.

But Maria didn't care.

On the way back, she still took a detour to look for Logan.

She was so cruel, but she truly loved Logan.

I wiped my face hard, pulled my mother into the room, and told her the truth.

Sooner or later she would know about this.

"I didn't agree to your marriage from the beginning! She is dominating and selfish, and you just don't believe me! You finally had a child after three years. My granddaughter, but she is now..."

My mother was so distraught that she covered her face crying, and fainted because of suffocation.

I took her to the hospital immediately.

Lying on the hospital bed, my mother spoke in regret after waking up.

"I could tell at the beginning that she was sure that you couldn't leave her!

"Will you die if you leave her?

"I am going to be pissed off by you to death!"

Indeed, Maria was sure that I loved her deeply.

She knew I only loved her in this life.

If I wasn't the only child in the family, my parents would have cut off all ties with me because of her.

My mother cried so much that she almost suffocated.

"You have to give me a definite answer today.

"You must divorce her!"

Maria and I were college classmates. She was the most beautiful girl in our class. She pursued Logan for four years, and I also pursued her for four years.

When she was rejected by Logan, she would always come to me for comfort. I thought my sincerity could move her in the end.

The fact was, she agreed to be with me after graduation.

We got married soon, but she never posted anything about me online.

She said she didn't like to be too high-profile.

"Marriage is a very private matter. As long as we live a good life, that's fine. What do you think?"

"I'll listen to you."

To make her happy, I suppressed my joy and kept our relationship in secret.

It was not until she gave birth to Stella that our lives began to become promising.

After we got married, did laundry, cooking, and housework after getting off from work, and never let her worry about anything.

As long as I looked at Stella's happy smiling face, I was very satisfied.

She could focus on her career and was promoted from an unknown salesperson to deputy manager in just one and a half years.

An internal competition for the marketing manager position was about to happen, but she resigned.

Because Logan came back from abroad.

I didn't know how Logan convinced her to resign.

Yesterday, I was busy working overtime, so I asked her, who had just quit her job, to stay at home and take good care of Stella.

Unexpectedly, she went to the party anyway.

I didn't know why I married her. Over the past three years, she had been completely obedient to me, and I thought she was finally moved by me.

But I didn't expect that a sharp sword was about to stab me and my mother.

I took a last look at Maria's WhatsApp, then looked at my mother who was crying.

During these three years, it was my willfulness that made my mother suffer.

A forced relationship would only make people suffer.

It took me three years and I paid a heavy price to understand this truth.

And it was time for me to let go.

"If you feel uncomfortable, just stay there. How could there be a car accident?"

"I'll be there once I'm done with this."

"But...then wait for me."

When I found her with the divorce agreement, I heard her going out while talking on the phone.

She walked very fast.

I took several days of bereavement leave to hold Stella's funeral. Everyone in the company comforted me.

Unexpectedly, Logan also happened to have a car accident at this time.

The video of his accident was playing continuously in the news.

The perpetrator had not been caught yet, and Maria had not been home for several days.

I went to the hospital to find her, but the nurse told me that Maria had gone to the police station to look for the culprit.

She ran everywhere and helped Logan handle the case at the police station.

I put away the divorce agreement when my cell phone rang.

The text message reminded me that I had spent more than 30,000 dollars.

There were many unread text messages, and I was usually too lazy to read them. This time, I took a look because they popped up.

She used my card. What happened that required her to use so much money?

Was there something wrong with her too?

Since Logan's accident, she never answered my calls. After many twists and turns, I finally found her.

But the scene before me hurt me deeply.

She squatted down and wet the towel, then stood up supporting the hospital bed, and gently wiped Logan's body.

Although she was physically weak, she was in good spirits.

It was as if she could transform into a superwoman and never know pain again.

But when I was with her, she wasn't even willing to touch a needle, for fear that it would hurt her.

However, she did this for Logan.

I knocked on the door.

She turned around and saw me, then her expression changed from guilty to indifferent.

"What are you doing here? Just think that I had borrowed thirty thousand dollars from you. I'll return it to you when I get my salary."

The first thing she did was to distance herself from me.

Had I ever asked her for a penny in all these years?

She didn't even care about Stella after Stella died.

I also helped with the funeral. Although she was very busy, she was still helping Logan as a free caregiver.

Maybe the thirty thousand dollars was all spent on Logan.

Logan half sat up from the bed and pretended to be puzzled, saying, "Maria, you still paid for my surgery? Doesn't Lucas know about it? You shouldn't do that."

"The company has been in a big deficit lately. I don't have enough to pay for your surgery. The perpetrator hasn't been caught, and the commercial insurance compensation is not enough. This thirty thousand dollars is just a small fraction. I have no other choice."

"Lucas is your husband, after all, Maria. Maybe he comes here just to ask you to go back. So you should go back first and leave me here to fend for myself, okay?"

Logan sighed and deliberately made himself sound miserable and pitiful.

But I didn't expect that when he said this, he avoided Maria's sight and made lip movements to me.

"You can't never win me!"

It turned out that Logan's target was not Maria from the very beginning.

But me.