###Chapter 4

Jessica raised a thick stack of letters in her hand,

"Over the years, I had deliberately not contacted him. But he had never forgotten me for a day and wrote me love letters every day, even though I never replied."

I felt breathless. How many late nights had I seen him writing in the study, thinking he was handling official business, so I made coffee for him and sent it in.

It turned out that he had been telling Jessica his heart. It turned out that from beginning to end, the heart I had thought was finally warmed up had never had me. I couldn’t listen anymore and suddenly wanted to shake her off and turn away.

But Jessica grabbed my wrist and a gleam of light flashed across her face.

"Catherine, what did you have to fight me?"

After saying that, she grabbed my hand and pushed it to her shoulder. Then, she screamed and fell to the ground. I looked at everything in front of me in shock and before I could react, my shoulder was hit hard by someone.

It was David. He rushed over and picked up Jessica, his eyes full of pity. "Jessica, are you okay?!"

Jessica buried her head in his shoulder sadly and cried aggrievedly, "I just wanted to explain to Catherine that there was nothing wrong between you and me, but she called me a shameless bitch and said she wanted to kill me."

Instantly, David yelled at me with red eyes, "Are you crazy? Jessica was pregnant! Why are you so vicious?"

"I didn’t … "

"Enough!" David interrupted my explanation.

"If anything happens to Jessica and her child, I will make you pay!"

After saying that, he ignored my lips that were difficult to open, hugged Jessica and ran out, shouting to the bodyguard, "Go to the hospital immediately!"

After a long time, I wiped away the tears of disappointment, slowly crawled upstairs and walked towards the bedroom. I began to pack my luggage silently, just waiting for the divorce agreement to take effect. Until the phone rang.

It was David who called me, "Come to Yates Hospital immediately."

I hurried to the hospital and saw David standing in the corridor from a distance and Jessica leaned on his arms, crying. My head suddenly shook and I felt dizzy. Now, they didn’t even pretend.

I walked over and moved my eyes away from David’s big hand holding Jessica’s shoulders with difficulty.

"David, what’s wrong?"

"Gregory suddenly suffered from renal failure and needed a kidney donation immediately."

I was stunned for a moment.

"So?"

"There was no suitable kidney source now," David said lightly. "I did a matching test and the result was a match."

My heart was suddenly tightened by someone and I looked at him in disbelief.

"You wanted to donate a kidney to him?! But this would have a lifelong impact on your body …"

"I called you here just to inform you that the operation required family members to sign."

I looked at him straight. Yes, now his wife was still me. But in his heart, his family members had always been the people he was holding in his arms now.

I bit my lips tightly to prevent others from seeing my red eyes.

"I’ll sign."

When I wrote my name, every stroke seemed to make my heart bleed.

David changed into a surgical gown and lay on the operating cart. I watched him being wheeled away from a distance and finally couldn’t help shouting to him, "David, the operation went well!"

He raised his head, his eyes moved slightly, but he just nodded.

When he disappeared in the operating room, my tears finally fell. Although I didn’t want to admit it, David’s love for Jessica was so deep that he could risk his future half of his life. I walked out of the hospital in a daze and took a taxi back home.

David didn’t come back that night and he didn’t come back for many days. But every day I could see David’s recent situation from Jessica’s circle of friends.

The operation was successful, but he ignored his wounds and was busy arranging the best ward for Jessica’s adopted son and even transferred top medical teams from all over the world, just for Gregory to recover soon.

For so many years, he had never been so considerate and thorough to his daughter. Even when his daughter had chickenpox and kept asking for her dad, he still hung up the phone and worked overtime in the brightly lit office. In the end, he just asked his assistant to send a toy to his daughter.

Jessica’s latest circle of friends was a photo posted in the morning. [I would never meet a man who loved us mother and son so much again.]

David leaned against the head of the bed, kissing her belly devoutly while receiving an IV and his handsome face showed a cherishing look that I had never seen before. My heart ached fiercely and tears fell on the screen of the mobile phone, blurring David’s gentle profile.

###Chapter 5

"Mum, was Dad on a business trip again?"

Suddenly, my daughter's voice at the door called me back to my senses.

I woke up at once. Told myself it didn’t matter. Although he didn’t love us, I would love my daughter and myself twice as much.

I opened my arms and hugged her as I answered, "Yes, baby, he was very busy at work."

A trace of sadness flashed across my daughter's eyes and she suddenly raised her little face and asked me, "Mum, were you leaving Dad?"

I was stunned. In fact, I had been so afraid that Charlotte would be hurt that I hadn’t figured out how to tell her about this yet.

I asked in a panic, "How did you know, baby?"

"That day, I heard you talking to a lawyer on the phone."

My daughter lay on my legs tightly, as if she were afraid of being abandoned by me, "Mom, I love you and I always want to stay with you forever."

Tears fell and I kept kissing her cute little face, "Of course, Mom would always love you."

After dinner, I packed Charlotte's luggage and coaxed my daughter to sleep. Suddenly, familiar footsteps came from downstairs, which seemed particularly hurried. Soon, David's face appeared at the door. He rushed in with a chill all over his body and grabbed my arm.

"Hurry up and let Jessica go! Just because I let her move in and I donated bone marrow to her adopted son, you kidnapped her?!"

David gritted his teeth, as if he wanted to bite me to pieces.

My arm seemed to be broken and I was in so much pain that I could not see anything, "I did not kidnap her!"

Ignoring my excuses and pleas, David dragged me to an amusement park and tied me to the bungee jumping machine that I was most afraid of. Soon, I was in the air and the air under my feet made my eyes black and my heart almost stop beating.

He stood below, staring at me with a more ferocious look than a beast, "Tell me now and I will let you down, Catherine."

"David, I really didn’t know where Jessica went! Please, don’t do this to me!"

But he didn’t believe me. On the contrary, he looked cold,

"This was your last chance, Catherine."

David had known that I was afraid of heights and that I didn’t dare to sit by the window even though it was just an office on the fifth floor. Now, he was going to use the method that I was most afraid of, regardless of my fear, just for his first love and their child.

I was weak all over as I told him, "I swear, I really didn’t know anything! I was scared, David!"

The next second, he turned around and made a gesture to the staff. Then, I felt a feeling of falling that was more terrible than hell. The moment I fell from the sky at high speed, the overwhelming darkness came and the appearance of this man finally became completely blurred and distorted.

Even if he didn’t love me, but I had never thought that he would treat me so coldly and cruelly.

Ten years of love was ultimately misplaced.

###Chapter 6

The smell of disinfectant pierced my nose and before my consciousness was completely restored, a man's low sigh came into my ears.

"You had been in a coma for two days."

It was David. He sat on a chair beside the bed, working on his mobile phone. Sensing my movement, a soft thing passed through his deep eyes.

David put down his mobile phone, picked up the steaming soup on the bedside table, scooped a spoonful and handed it to my lips. But I subconsciously closed my lips and even slightly turned my head away.

The softness instantly shattered, replaced by a diffuse coldness.

He tightened his fingers around the spoon handle and his voice sank, "Were you still making trouble? Catherine, I had taught you this lesson because you’d gone too far! You even taught my daughter to slander Jessica. I had been tolerant enough of you, don’t be ungrateful."

I stared at this face that had been filled with all my youth and love and the corners of my mouth pulled out an arc that I didn’t know whether it was mockery or self-mockery, "Yes, it was me who was vicious and jealous and I was deliberately trying to harm her! Are you satisfied with this answer?"

My eyes were uncontrollably sour, but I held back and didn’t let a single tear fall.

David looked at my red eyes and felt an inexplicable stab in his heart. He remembered that many years ago, when I had a high fever and curled up in his arms, I also looked at him with red eyes like this. At that time, the look in my eyes had been an inseparable dependence and admiration.

But at this moment, there was only desolation left.

A trace of guilt flashed through his eyes, but it was soon swallowed by the evil fire of disobedience.

"Catherine!" he raised his voice, eager to prove his correctness.

"Did you know that Jessica had nightmares every night after I rescued her? It was obviously you who caused her … why were you pretending to be a victim here?!"

It was useless to defend myself and it only added to the humiliation. I turned my head silently and looked at the sky outside the window. My disregard angered him and he was about to explode when his cell phone rang.

David quickly turned sideways, but I still saw the screen. Jessica was wearing almost transparent lace underwear, lying seductively on the big bed in the hotel. I didn’t know what was said on the other end, but David’s breathing became rapid.

And the corners of his mouth even raised an arc uncontrollably. He stood up suddenly and said, "I would pick you up when you were discharged from the hospital. When the time came, apologize to Jessica. She was soft-hearted. As long as you were sincere, she would forgive you."

Before he finished speaking, his tall figure had disappeared at the door of the ward.

The next day I was discharged from the hospital, but only the driver came to pick me up.

David called, "Today was Gregory’s birthday. He had suffered in an orphanage since he was a child. I was going to go to the amusement park with Jessica."

He seemed to remember something and added in a gentle tone of pitiness, "Don’t worry, I would bring gifts back for you and my daughter."

The time on the phone reminded me that today was also Charlotte’s birthday.

At the same time, it was the date when the divorce certificate between him and me took effect. Of course, he hadn’t remembered it. I hung up the phone silently, sent the driver away and went to get the divorce decree alone.

My fingertips stroked the two cold jet-black words of ‘divorce’, but my heart was calm without a ripple, as if it were just an insignificant document. When I returned to the villa, I found that David and his friends had not left the house yet.

"Where did you go? The driver said you didn’t let him pick you up."

He stood in the middle of the living room, looking at me in a straight suit.

Jessica, wearing an exquisite dress, held the equally well-dressed Gregory, leaning against him like a little bird.

I opened my mouth, but before I could say anything, he suddenly raised his eyebrows and said, "Today was our wedding anniversary. Did you go out to prepare a gift?"