When I was eight months pregnant, my husband, Brandon, booked eight strippers at a nightclub.
His female assistant, Tiffany, sat on his lap, watching me with a mocking smirk.
Brandon, your wife looks like a beached whale! She probably broke the door squeezing in!
His employees chimed in, echoing her words.
“You can’t just be a bloated balloon because you’re pregnant and stop us from having fun!”
“Besides, Mr. Brandon just closed a multi-million dollar deal! What right do you, a mere housewife, have to tell him what to do?”
I glared at their sneering faces, then pulled out my phone and called my father.
“The collaboration with Brandon Corp can be canceled.”
Brandon had no idea that his multi-million dollar deal was a personal favor my dad gave him, all for my sake.
The phone call ended, and the private room erupted in laughter.
“Brandon, the way she’s acting, you’d think she was running Brandon Corp!”
“Has Serena been watching too many soap operas? Does she really think she’s some kind of power broker?”
“Everyone knows Serena’s been living off Brandon since she got pregnant. I bet she doesn’t even have a thousand bucks to her name! And here she is, pretending she can cancel your ten-million-dollar deal.”
Brandon looked at me with open disgust, his eyes full of revulsion.
“Serena, you’re overdoing it! You’re a housewife who needs my money just to buy groceries, and you dare to put on an act in front of me?”
Tiffany, the assistant, leaned flirtatiously against Brandon, her eyes full of scorn as she looked at me.
“Serena, your body’s so swollen, you look like a waterlogged corpse! Mr. Brandon doesn’t even mind, he still takes care of you. How can you be so ungrateful?”
I looked down at my body, swollen from pregnancy, and a wave of humiliation washed over me.
Brandon and I were college sweethearts. He chased me relentlessly for three years. His sincerity moved me so much that I broke ties with my family to be with him.
After we married, I poured my entire heart into supporting his startup. I even drank myself to stomach bleeding countless times at business dinners just to help him close deals.
Once the company stabilized, Brandon gradually sidelined me, claiming the family needed me more. I had no complaints, happily becoming the woman behind his success.
After I got pregnant, I suffered from such severe morning sickness that I could only sustain myself with IV drips.
But I never imagined that all my devotion would be repaid with such cruel betrayal.
I walked over, grabbed a glass from the table, and poured it straight over Tiffany’s head.
“Ah!”
Tiffany shrieked instantly, leaping off Brandon’s lap.
Brandon’s face darkened. He grabbed my arm tightly.
“Serena, what do you think you’re doing?”
I shot him a cold smirk.
“Just helping her sober up, so she can realize her place!”
Tiffany quickly wiped herself, then tearfully threw herself into Brandon’s arms, feigning distress.
“Mr. Brandon, I was only thinking of you! Look at Serena, her body is so swollen, she looks like a huge, puffy dough ball. She’s completely unpresentable! I was just worried people finding out you have a wife like that would make you lose face!”
Brandon’s eyes were terrifyingly dark as he stared at me. He then picked up a bottle of red wine and held it out.
“You better apologize to Tiffany with a drink right now. Otherwise, I’m cutting off your allowance completely. A pregnant woman like you, if you leave me, where do you think you’d go?”
I stared at Brandon in disbelief, my hands clenching into fists.
“Brandon, you want me, a pregnant woman, to drink to apologize?”
Brandon shrugged, unconcerned.
“You’re already eight months pregnant, the baby’s fully formed. A glass of wine won’t do anything.”
I took the wine bottle Brandon handed me, looked him in the eye, and snorted coldly. Then, with all my might, I smashed it over his head.
Crash! The wine bottle shattered, scattering glass everywhere.
Brandon clutched his head, his eyes bloodshot as he glared at me.
“Serena, are you insane?”
I snorted at him.
“You’re the one who went insane first!”
With that, I turned to leave. Brandon stepped forward and yanked my arm back violently.
“You think you can just hit someone and walk away?”
Tiffany rushed forward.
“Mr. Brandon, Serena just stomped all over your reputation! If this gets out, how will you ever operate in the city’s elite circles again?”
The others quickly joined in.
“Exactly! What kind of status does Mr. Brandon have? To be headbutted by a woman? How embarrassing!”
“Mr. Brandon, you still need to learn a thing or two about keeping your wife in line!”
“Or are you actually scared of her, Mr. Brandon?”
Everyone looked at Brandon with amusement, and his face grew even darker.
“Serena, I’m giving you one last chance. Apologize!”
Meeting Brandon’s vicious gaze, my own eyes turned colder.
“Brandon, this is my last chance for you. Let me leave now, or you won’t be able to handle the consequences.”
Brandon chuckled dismissively.
“Serena, you’re overdoing it! You’re someone who relies on me for everything, who gave you the guts to threaten me?”
Brandon picked up a glass of red wine from the table and brought it to my lips.
“Drink this, apologize to Tiffany, and I’ll pretend none of this happened today. Otherwise, don’t be surprised when the baby’s born and there’s no one there to sign the birth certificate for your child.”
I stared at Brandon, shocked. I couldn’t believe he would use our child to threaten me into apologizing to a mere assistant!
“Brandon, I’m carrying your child in my belly! You’d actually use our baby to threaten me?”
Brandon’s gaze fell on my huge belly, his expression turning grave for a moment.
Just then, Tiffany linked arms with him.
“Mr. Brandon, if you don’t lay down the law for Serena today, she’ll walk all over you from now on.”
Derek, the financial manager, with a stripper draped over each arm, walked over.
“Mr. Brandon is worth so much, he can have as many kids as he wants later. You think one baby can control him? Serena, you’re too naive.”
After hearing their words, Brandon looked at me with even more disdain.
“Serena, don’t think that just because you’re pregnant, the whole world revolves around you. You will drink this wine today, whether you want to or not.”
With that, Brandon reached out and grabbed the back of my neck, forcefully pouring the wine into my mouth.
I bit down hard, but Brandon used the glass to pry my mouth open. The dark red wine, mixed with a metallic taste, flooded my throat.
I felt a sudden wave of nausea, and a sharp, twisting pain shot through my abdomen.
Then I heard a soft ‘pop,’ and a warm gush flowed down my thighs.
I gasped, clutching my belly in a panic.
“Brandon, my water broke! Take me to the hospital, quickly!”
Brandon stared at the growing puddle beneath me, a flicker of panic in his eyes.
“Okay, I’ll take you to the hospital right away.”
Just as Brandon reached out to pick me up, Tiffany stepped forward and pulled his arm.
“Mr. Brandon, Serena’s only eight months pregnant. It’s not that easy for her water to break.”
“Couldn’t she have just peed her pants and is trying to fake a breakdown to guilt-trip you, Mr. Brandon? I’ve heard pregnant women often can’t hold their bladder, and they sometimes even smell of pee.”
Hearing Tiffany’s words, everyone around us recoiled a few steps, covering their noses.
“I’ve seen so many pregnant women who couldn’t hold their bladder and just peed everywhere. That smell is truly disgusting.”
“Serena must be trying to put on a show to make Mr. Brandon feel guilty! What a manipulative move.”
“Serena’s body is already unpresentable enough, and now she’s peeing her pants in public? If this gets out, where will Mr. Brandon put his face?”
Brandon’s expression turned icy after hearing everyone’s comments. He furiously shoved my hand away.
“Serena, you’re faking your water breaking by deliberately peeing your pants just to make me feel guilty? Have you no shame left?”
The pain in my abdomen intensified. I struggled to stand, each word making it harder to breathe.
“Brandon, my water really broke! It’s your baby in my belly!”
Brandon grabbed a glass from the table and angrily smashed it at my feet. Glass shards flew everywhere.
“Stop using the child to threaten me! Haven’t you embarrassed yourself enough? How unlucky would the baby be to have a mom who pees herself?”
A glass shard cut my ankle, and my heart felt like it was tearing apart.
Knowing Brandon was useless, I pulled out my phone to call emergency services.
But just as I held it up, a hand forcefully snatched it away. Brandon grabbed my phone and furiously smashed it on the floor.
“Are you addicted to this act? Want to waste emergency services’ time? Do you think I, Brandon, haven’t lost enough face because of you yet?”
I stared at my shattered phone, my heart sinking into despair. The pain in my abdomen grew stronger, and my back was drenched in sweat.
“Brandon, I’m begging you, please save our baby, okay? He’s only eight months old, he hasn’t even seen this world yet!”
Tiffany chuckled, looking at me.
“Serena, your acting skills are wasted outside of Hollywood. I was almost convinced myself.”
I bit my lip, my eyes burning with fury as I looked at Tiffany.
“Tiffany, I won’t let you get away with this.”
With that, I shrugged off Brandon’s hand and turned to leave.
But the next second, my path was blocked.
Tiffany, her arm linked with Brandon’s, stood in the doorway, smirking at me.
“Serena, if you walk out like this, won’t you completely embarrass Mr. Brandon?”
Tiffany pointed to my soaked pants, her eyes full of disgust.
I clenched my fists tightly.
“What do you want?”
Tiffany pointed to the lounge inside the private room. “There’s a shower in there. Serena, you should wash up before you leave! Otherwise, walking out smelling of pee like that will just humiliate Mr. Brandon.”
I looked at the bathroom inside the private room, my expression instantly turning cold.
“My water has broken. If I shower now, it will kill my child’s last chance of survival.”
I tried to push past them, but Brandon forcefully yanked me back.
“Stop acting! You don’t get a choice!”
My back slammed against the doorknob, and a sharp, twisting pain shot through my abdomen. Then, I smelled blood.
Everyone in the room instantly looked stunned.
“Blood! She’s bleeding!”
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