Chapter 2
With that, Evelyn and I set our phone flashlights to their brightest setting.
We kept each other awake, terrified that we’d doze off. After all, if we fell asleep, we might never wake up again.
After Laurel’s death in my past life, Kendrick spiraled into depression. But two months later, he suddenly snapped out of it and began treating me well.
I thought that he had finally moved on.
However, on the day our child was born, he threw the baby into the water. He drowned him without hesitation, and I could only watch it happen.
“If you want to blame someone, blame your scheming mother! Don’t think for a second that I’m the heartless one!”
Then, Kendrick dragged my weakened body out of bed and tossed me into the pool to drown.
I pleaded with him. Yet, his voice remained cold as he spat, “Laurel suffered more when she drowned in the ocean. What makes you think that you deserve a good life? Who do you think you are, living and carrying my child?”
The pain had burned itself into my memory. I would never forget it.
Fueled by vengeance and hatred, I forced myself to stay awake. At the same time, I urged Evelyn to hang on.
We waved our phones frantically in the dark.
Then, the blare of a ship’s horn finally shattered the silence. Help had arrived!
When the captain and passengers heard what we had been through, their reactions were a mix of sympathy and outrage.
Suddenly, a sharp pain seized my lower abdomen.
Realizing the urgency, the captain pushed the ship to full speed, determined to get me to shore and to a hospital.
We arrived within 30 minutes. And right then, I saw Kendrick and Laurel brushing off their clothes nearby.
The moment they spotted me, sneers curled at the corners of their lips.
“So, you made it back on your own after all. Why the act, then? If I had listened to you, Laurel might have lost her life.”
The captain insisted that Kendrick take me to the hospital, pointing out how much blood I had lost. Although the bleeding had stopped, the damage to my body was significant.
Yet, Kendrick simply scoffed. “Drop the act, Roxanne Bradford. Laurel has a performance tomorrow, and now, thanks to you, she’s fallen sick. Don’t you think that you’re being unreasonable right now?”
Standing across from me, his gaze held no warmth—only scrutiny.
A chill ran through me at that sight. This was the man I had spent my nights with, and now he was looking at me as if I were nothing but a speck of dust.
Pain twisted in my stomach, and my legs trembled so badly that I could barely stand.
At that moment, Laurel glanced at me before weakly tugging at Kendrick’s sleeve.
“I know that everyone hates me. It’s fine,” she muttered. “You should take care of Roxanne. I’m feeling weak from the cold, but I’ll manage.”
She was playing the victim again, twisting everything to make it look like I was to blame.
Kendrick shot me an irritated glare upon hearing that.
“Stop it. So what if you were in the water? I know you too well. You always blow things out of proportion just to get my attention,” he said coldly.
In my past life, he had said the exact same words to me at the hospital. Back then, I told myself I was imagining things. So, I let it go then.
But time had revealed the truth to me.
My expression hardened, and I looked at him as though he were a stranger. A beat later, I retorted, “Why aren’t you doubting her? She was never in the water.
“I’m your wife, Kendrick. And yet, you abandoned me to save your childhood sweetheart. You truly are an outstanding man, huh?”
I took a deep breath before adding, “I want a divorce. I don’t want to be with you anymore.”
At last, the words I had buried for so long broke free.
Kendrick stared at me, stunned. A second later, rage flashed across his eyes.
“Stop being ridiculous. Aren’t you tired of this act? You’re just throwing a tantrum because I put her on the lifeboat first, aren’t you? You’re insane!”
The old me wouldn’t have fought back. But not anymore.
Every choice Kendrick made, every time he left me behind, made one thing clear—he had never loved me.
Beside him, Laurel let out a small gasp.
Before I could react, Kendrick scooped her up and walked away without looking back.
Furious, Evelyn lunged toward him, ready to attack. But I held her back.
A fresh wave of pain ripped through my lower abdomen, and my vision blurred. I closed my eyes. Then, everything faded to black.
