A strong disinfectant smell suddenly woke me up.

The doctor stayed beside my hospital bed and quietly shook his head.

“Miss Hamilton, the child couldn’t be saved. The earlier car accident already left complications behind, and this time, you arrived too late. Your uterus suffered serious damage, so you might never become pregnant again.”

I blankly lay on the hospital bed while tears slowly covered my eyes.

The doctor continued saying comforting words near me, but I couldn’t hear them anymore.

This was the second baby, Heath, that we lost, and it was also the final one.

Three years earlier, after learning he was cheating, he jumped from a building to pressure me into divorce, and the shock caused me to miscarry immediately.

I waited three years for this child to arrive, but before I could even feel its warmth, it left again.

“Kira, I hope our future child is as sweet and kind as you.”

“Once we have a child, there’ll be one more person in this world for me to love.”

At twenty-two, those words stayed deeply in my mind, but now he once again destroyed our child with his own hands.

My hand slowly touched my flat stomach, as if the child was still there.

Heath, I’ll definitely make you suffer the consequences!

After the doctor walked out, I called Cindy.

“The investment contract I asked you to prepare before isn’t needed anymore.”

“And I want to pull back the investment and take back every asset from Heath’s company! I want him to be left with nothing. He has to pay for this!”

Night slowly arrived.

Heath walked into my hospital room and let out a cold laugh.

“Kira, you really treat the hospital like your own house, coming here whenever you want.”

I turned my face away and ignored him.

He came over to my bedside, handed me a paper and pen, and coldly spoke.

“This situation caused a huge problem for Aurelia. It already seriously affected both her life and her family’s life.”

“You’ll personally write an apology letter, saying you were paranoid and schizophrenic, purposely spreading lies about innocent people. You’ll also say you’re willing to pay all mental damage compensation and personally apologize to her.”

After hearing that, I stared at him in shock, anger rising inside me.

“Heath, is something wrong with your head? Why should I apologize for something I never did?”

Heath pushed down on my shoulders and softly replied.

“At this stage, why are you still pretending to be innocent? In all of Avondale, I can’t find a second person who wants her dead as badly as you do.”

I laughed loudly, my voice carrying sarcasm.

“Could she be putting on a show by herself?”

He laughed too.

“Not everybody likes acting and pretending the way you do.”

“Kira, after you follow what I said, I’ll take you to Iceland right away and finally keep the promise I owe you.”

It sounded so believable that if I didn’t have Aurelia’s WhatsApp, I might’ve truly trusted him.

Three days ago, she was still showing off on Instagram:

“My health’s been bad recently, but someone already arranged an Iceland vacation for me. Who wants free plane tickets and hotel stays?”

The things she threw away had somehow become a gift for me.

Seven years passed. The honeymoon we missed before because of work, and later after our love disappeared, was now going to happen like this.

“No, Heath. I didn’t do anything wrong, and there’s no way I’ll apologize.”

“I, Kira, take responsibility for the things I do. If I didn’t do it, then I didn’t do it!”

His brows tightened as he suddenly threw the paper at my face, the sharp edge cutting my cheek.

The door slammed shut hard.

A message suddenly appeared on my phone.

“Miss Hamilton, your immigration process has been completed. Welcome to England. We look forward to your return to Avondale again!”

I slowly breathed out. Everything should finally be over now.

After I finished packing my luggage, an urgent call suddenly came in.

“Heath, hurry and check the news! That crazy man, Heath, posted an apology to Aurelia using your name!”

“He even faked your schizophrenia medical records. Now everyone online is cursing you!”

When I heard that, cold sweat covered my palms as my shaking hands quickly opened the social media app.

[I’m apologizing to Ms. Aurelia on behalf of my wife. Ms. Aurelia is the driver hired by the Curtis family.]

[My wife has suffered from schizophrenia for many years. She became paranoid and treated Ms. Suico as an imaginary enemy, paying black PR accounts to spread rumors and attack her online……]

My chest felt tight, like someone was squeezing my heart, making it hard to breathe.

Heath was completely insane!

As I kept scrolling, public opinion online fully turned against me.

[What should someone do if their legal wife is mentally ill?]

[So rich people can just falsely accuse others whenever they want? That’s disgusting!]

[Can people with schizophrenia even paint? Were her past award-winning paintings secretly done by someone else she paid?]

……

I saved screenshots of every post one by one, then contacted my father to get the surveillance recording of my conversation with Heath, and to investigate the person secretly controlling everything behind this.

Less than ten minutes later, my father sent me a file. Inside, it was proof that Aurelia had planned everything herself and paid black PR accounts to spread those articles.

“Kira, that car crash wasn’t an accident. I already found the proof.”

He also sent a conversation record to my phone. I nervously opened it, and every single line showed Aurelia’s carefully planned scheme to kill me.

I gripped my phone hard as anger rushed through my chest.

“Kira, our Hamilton family will never let others bully us. If you can’t do it yourself, I’ll handle it for you.”

After hearing that, I answered without hesitation.

“No, Dad. I want to personally make the people who hurt me pay for everything!”

I gathered all the evidence together and sent everything to Cindy.

“I want to sue Aurelia for intentional injury and defamation.”

“At the same time, pull back every investment and take back all the shares Heath owns in the Stardom Company. From now on, I want them to lose all their status and reputation. I want them to suffer worse than death!”

After finishing everything, I shut the large suitcase.

Right then, Heath appeared at the door of my hospital room and questioned me with a dark expression.

“Why is the safe from the study at home missing?”

I lowered my head and fixed the suitcase without even looking at him.

“I threw it away.”

The moment he heard that, he grabbed my arm in panic and raised his voice.

“You threw it away? Inside were all the memories from our ten years together, love letters, movie tickets, and so many other things. You really threw everything away?”

I calmly pulled my arm back, my face staying emotionless.

“What’s the point of keeping garbage?”

A man who no longer loved me was nothing but useless trash, and every memory connected to him was worthless, too.

After hearing my words, his eyes moved to my suitcase, and a small smile appeared on his face.

“I haven’t even told you when we’re leaving for Iceland, yet you already packed your bags this fast?”

“Just a few days ago, you were still causing trouble about divorce. Now you’ve changed this quickly. I admit I ignored you too much lately, but I’ll do better from now on.”

His words sounded ridiculous and sad, making me quietly laugh inside.

Heath always believed I loved him so deeply that even death couldn’t make me leave him, but he was wrong. I also grew tired, and my feelings had long gone cold.

From the moment I stopped loving him, Avondale no longer had any reason for me to stay.

A phone suddenly rang. He looked at me, paused for a few seconds, and then still turned to leave after speaking.

“The nurse said Aurelia won’t eat anything. I’ll go check on her.”

“Don’t go walking around outside. Reporters are everywhere. I’ll have someone come pick you up later.”

After that, once he left, I dragged my suitcase and fully walked away.

There were still two hours before the flight took off when I got his message.

“Didn’t I already tell you not to run around? Reporters are outside everywhere. Have you lost your mind?”

“There should be a limit to your jealousy and tantrums. If something happens to you, Grandma will blame me again. Come back to the hospital now, and I’ll bring you home.”

I blocked and deleted him in one move, completely removing every sign of him from my life.

Heath, this is where things end between us. Your punishment has only started now.