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I had no idea how much time had passed before I finally woke up. The first thing that greeted me was the strong smell of disinfectant.
Elijah gazed at me nervously. “How are you feeling now? Are you still in pain?”
I just glared back coldly, feeling nothing but disgust toward him.
“Have you signed the divorce agreement yet? Remember, we’re getting a divorce.
Elijah was momentarily surprised, but he soon let out a heavy sigh. “Honey, can you please not do this? Just think about it; you were always the one starting fights between us! Thanks to you, our family’s about to get torn apart!”
I just chuckled icily while glaring at Elijah. At that moment, I felt that I could barely recognize him.
“Do you think I’d start fights for no reason if not for the fact that you’ve been seeing another woman behind my back? You can’t even stay loyal to me in our marriage, yet now you have the balls to blame me?”
Now that I had chosen to expose Elijah’s infidelity in his face, his expression shifted into one of disdain.
“Ask around and you’ll know that all rich men tend to have mistresses and
underground lovers! You want me to accompany you all the time! The thing is, no man in this world is capable of doing that to their wives!
“Also, you make it sound as if you’re not responsible for my infidelity! Just look at how much your appearance has deteriorated over the years since we got married! I don’t feel sexually attracted to you at all!”
The way Elijah pinned the blame on me almost drove me crazy.
When I first met him, I was a walking bombshell with a hot figure to boot. In fact, I was a lot more beautiful than Yvonne.
But after we got married, I had to take up three jobs during the time Elijah failed to start his business for the first time and had racked up massive debts. At that time, I’d gladly take up any job no matter how difficult and exhausting it was as long as it paid well.
Because of that, my looks had diminished greatly.
Elijah never cared about my contributions to his success, nor did his heart go out to me whenever I suffered. Instead, he kept humiliating, degrading, and gaslighting me verbally.
Honestly speaking, Elijah really was a piece of shit if I were to disregard my love for
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him. I knew that there was no way I’d let my son acknowledge him as his father in the future.
“As long as you sign the divorce agreement, you can sleep with as many women as you like. Your affairs have nothing to do with me from now on.
I dug out the divorce agreement once again. After that, I passed a pen to Elijah.
Elijah folded his arms in front of his chest. He sighed once again. “Are you really sure you want a divorce? You think you can find a better man than me after divorcing me?”
For a moment, I was left speechless and furious.
“Elijah, have you forgotten the time when you failed to start your business and was reduced to a pathetic loser? Who was it that kept borrowing money from several sources and helped you tough out the darkest time in your life, huh?
“Trust me, my life will only be better without you because of my capabilities and connections! Also, I already married the worst man in my first marriage, so I’m very sure I can definitely marry a better man in my second marriage!”
Had it not been for Elijah’s existence, I was very sure that my life would be a hundred times better than this shitty life I was stuck in at the moment.
Did Elijah seriously think I couldn’t survive without him? Just how arrogant was that prick?
Elijah’s expression darkened when the past was brought up. He was about to snap at me when someone opened the ward’s door from the outside.
Yvonne strode into the ward the next moment. She stood next to Elijah while urging him, “Honey, hurry up and sign the agreement! We’ll live happily ever after! I’ll even give birth to your own child!”
Hesitation flickered across Elijah’s eyes. He turned his head away from Yvonne to avoid looking at her.
Meanwhile, I glanced at Yvonne before scoffing. “Go on, talk some sense into him! You’ve been stuck as his mistress for so long, haven’t you? Are you that content in being his mistress that you don’t want an actual position in this relationship?”
Yvonne glared at me unhappily. “There’s no need to put on airs in front of me! What else do you have other than the position of being his legal wife? In the past 12 months, Elijah has celebrated every holiday and special occasion with me! He even slept in my bed on the night you gave birth!
I picked up the glass of water and splashed it on Yvonne’s face right away.
“Are you seriously that proud of yourself, you lowly homewrecker?”
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“Jeanette Braxton, how dare you splash water at me!”
Yvonne was about to slap me when Elijah stopped her. “That’s enough! You should leave!”
Aggrieved, Yvonne turned to pout at Elijah. “Honey…”
