I crossed blizzards to reach Antarctica for the ninety-ninth time, begging my husband to come home.
He refusedagain.
His first love was there, and that was enough for him to stay.
So I finally stopped trying.
Five years later, during my birthday dinner, he pushed open the door as if summoned by fate.
His gaze dropped to the slight curve of my belly.
Rage. Shock. Something feral.
His voice cut through the room: Whose child is that?
I smiled, calm and untouchable.
Its not yours.
Thats all you need to know.
At a birthday party, amidst laughter and conversation, Derek suddenly appeared.
Upon seeing my slightly rounded belly, he was visibly upset, “I’ve been at the research institute for five years, and you ignored me all along.
Whose child is in your belly?” I replied calmly, “It’s none of your business.
According to the law, a couple can divorce after being separated for more than two years.”
Upon hearing this, Derek kicked over the birthday cake in anger, “Amelia, I’ve only been away for five years, and you’ve already gotten yourself pregnant.”
“Who does the child belong to?”
“I’m going to make sure he can’t survive in New York City.” Watching Derek ruin the carefully prepared birthday party, I got angry too, “Derek, this isn’t the place for you to act out.”
“If you’re not well, go to the hospital.” The mention of “hospital” made Derek’s emotions flare up. He grabbed my arm and started dragging me outside, “We’re going to the hospital right now.”
Derek was so strong, I couldn’t even struggle. At that moment, Grandma Nora heard the commotion and hurried over with her cane. Seeing Derek’s rough actions, she was instantly alarmed. “Derek, let go of Amelia!”
“Amelia is pregnant with…” Derek’s mood softened a bit when he saw Grandma, but his anger surged again at her words. He interrupted Grandma Nora, “Amelia, you’re quite clever, even fooling Grandma.” Then he raised his hand and slapped me hard.
Blood trickled from my mouth as my cheek swelled. Grandma Nora was shocked by the scene.
She tried to rescue me from Derek’s grip. But the bodyguard by Derek’s side kept her away. Derek instructed the bodyguard to call the private hospital for a procedure.
As he arranged things, he dragged me into the car. Grandma Nora reluctantly got into another car with the bodyguard. None of the surrounding friends offered help. Instead, they watched the scene unfold. Derek’s family was wealthy and influential.
They didn’t want to offend him and were happy to give him respect. The car quickly reached the private hospital.
The director personally came out to greet Derek. Ignoring the director’s flattery, Derek dragged me to the OB-GYN department. “Derek, let go of me.
The child in my belly is…” Before I could finish, we ran into Tessa, who had just come out of the doctor’s office.
She was Derek’s former sister-in-law and his long-cherished first love. Seeing Derek, she happily ran over and hugged him. “Derek, I’m finally pregnant,” she said, looking at Derek with deep affection. Derek let go of my hand and carefully hugged Tessa.
“Tessa, you’re pregnant now. Be careful.” Tessa playfully smiled and, noticing me, exclaimed in surprise, “Sister-in-law, you’re pregnant too?” Seeing their intimate actions, I instantly understood.
Why Derek left for five years and why Tessa disappeared too. They had been together all along. Ignoring Tessa’s provocative gaze, I simply replied, “Derek, we’re no longer married, and you’re with Tessa now.”
“Let me go immediately, or you won’t be able to handle the consequences.” Grandma Nora was shocked to see Derek and Tessa together. But it was more important to stop Derek from doing something rash.
“Derek, let Amelia go home and rest.” Hearing this, Derek immediately released Tessa and sternly questioned, “Grandma, Amelia cheated on me and is pregnant with someone else’s child. Do you want me to turn a blind eye?”
Grandma Nora realized Derek wasn’t going to let it go easily. She hurriedly said, “Derek, the child in Amelia’s belly isn’t someone else’s. It’s…”
Before Grandma Nora could finish, Tessa interrupted, “Derek, Grandma doesn’t look well. Is Amelia not taking good care of her?”
“Or is Grandma being threatened by Amelia?”
Hearing this, I found it laughable, “Derek, you were raised by Grandma, and you disappeared for five years.” “You know better than anyone why Grandma’s not well.”
Tessa smirked and approached me, “You intruded on the relationship between Derek and me.
Don’t you know why Derek left?” As she spoke, Tessa pushed me hard. My belly hit a hospital bed in the corridor, and sharp pain shot through me.
A warm sensation flowed down my thigh. Grandma Nora looked on in panic, “Doctor, come quickly. Amelia’s child can’t be harmed.” The doctor and nurses were about to check when Derek shouted, “No one is allowed to check.
Today, I’m making sure she doesn’t keep the child.” At the director’s signal, the doctor and nurses didn’t dare move. Tessa mocked, “Sister-in-law, carrying someone else’s child, betraying Derek.”
“How do you have the nerve to seek help from the family hospital’s doctors?” Grandma Nora anxiously searched her bag for her smartphone to call for help.
Derek ordered the bodyguard to take Grandma’s phone away. “Grandma, what kind of manipulation did Amelia use on you?”
“You’re still trying to help her.” “Grandma, I’m telling you, this child must not remain.” Grandma Nora was shocked, “Derek, I’m your grandmother. Won’t you even listen to me?” Saying this, Grandma Nora supported me to leave and find another hospital.
But the bodyguard restrained her. “Derek, stop this madness.” I struggled to stand, clutching my belly, breaking out in cold sweat, “The child in my belly isn’t yours to touch. Let me go now, or you can’t handle the consequences.” Derek stared at me, silent for a moment. Then Tessa started live streaming with her smartphone. She whispered something in Derek’s ear. Derek took the smartphone from Tessa and aimed it at me, “Amelia, if you don’t want a dignified procedure in the hospital, I’ll do it another way.”
“Remember the consequences of betraying me.” Derek ordered the bodyguard to tie me to the hospital bed. I stared in horror at the bodyguard holding a stick.
I struggled desperately, trying to break free. I was ready to reveal the true identity of the child’s father. “Derek, you’re insane. The child I’m carrying is…”
Before I could finish, the bodyguard, at Derek’s signal, struck my belly with a stick. The intense pain turned my words into cries of agony.
Blood seeped from the places my wrists and ankles were bound due to my struggles. “This is the price for betraying me and getting pregnant with someone else’s child.”
The live stream audience, after hearing the story, joined in. “This woman is obviously trouble.” “Cheaters deserve to die. Don’t let her off easily.”
“Teach her a lesson. Let all women see the consequences of infidelity.” Derek showed me the live stream comments. “Amelia, you not only betrayed me, but you also manipulated Grandma into deceiving me.”
“Today, I’m going to make sure the child in your belly is dealt with.” Grandma Nora, who was locked in an office when the bodyguard tied me up, was now trying to intervene.
As the second blow was about to land, someone suddenly burst in. He stopped the bodyguard. “Young Master Derek, Miss Amelia isn’t someone you can touch now.” “Stop and apologize to Miss Amelia. It might make your life easier later.” Tessa looked uneasy at the sight of the bodyguard, but she said nothing.
Derek, however, stared at the intruder for a long time before speaking, “I see you’re familiar. You’re my brother’s bodyguard.”
With that, Derek suddenly grabbed the stick from the bodyguard and smashed it over his head. “How dare you meddle with my affairs.” Blood gushed from the bodyguard’s head as he collapsed on the ground.
Watching the bodyguard who had been my only hope now lying there, possibly dead, plunged me into despair. “Derek, please, I’m sorry. Spare the child in my belly.”
I was desperate, crying as I spoke. Derek glanced at the smartphone, then at me, and instructed the bodyguard to release me from the bed. “Now kneel in front of me and tell me what you did wrong.”
“If the live stream audience forgives you, then I will too.” Clutching my aching belly, I painfully crawled to Derek and knelt before him. “I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have betrayed you or gotten pregnant. I’m at fault.” “But the child is innocent. Please, spare him.”
Derek looked at my pitiful state and said nothing. Instead, he connected with a netizen’s microphone. A furious voice came from the other end of the smartphone. “You deserve to be punished. Show no mercy.”
“Are you kneeling here to confess your mistakes?”
“If the viewers in the live streaming room forgive you, then so will I.”
Clutching my agonizing stomach, I painfully crawled to Derek’s feet and knelt.
“I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have been unfaithful, and I shouldn’t have gotten pregnant. I’ve made terrible mistakes.”
“But the child is innocent. Please, I’m begging you, spare him.”
Derek surveyed my disheveled state in silence. Instead, he randomly connected a viewer’s mic.
An outraged voice burst through the smartphone.
“You deserve to be punished, you wretched woman. Someone should teach you a lesson.”
Tessa approached Derek and spoke with deliberate calm,
“Derek, see, your sister-in-law is still unwilling to give up the child and won’t disclose the father’s identity.”
“It seems she hasn’t truly realized her mistakes.”
Their conversation made my face go pale. But for the sake of my child, I had to fight.
I endured the pain and abruptly stood up, racing toward the exit.
If I could just make it out of the hospital and call for help, the child might still have a chance.
Just as I was about to escape through the hospital doors, Derek grabbed my hair from behind.
He yanked me back with such force, I felt my scalp tearing apart.
“You’re still thinking of running away, are you?”
“Without a lesson, you won’t learn.”
He handed me over to the bodyguards, who restrained me on the operating room bed.
“Doctor, perform the procedure and remove the child.”
The medical team prepared to administer an anesthetic, but Derek stopped them.
“She’s disgraced herself, and the child is illegitimate. No need for anesthetic.”
Under the harsh lights of the operating room, I whispered weakly,
“Derek, you’ll regret this.”
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Derek listened indifferently and remarked,
“After this, you might even thank me. You know, you’re famous now.”
“You’ll be the first person on the internet to stream an abortion live.”
I was utterly despondent.
I’m sorry, child, your mother doesn’t have the strength to protect you.
The nurse’s eyes showed hesitation, but she had to proceed due to the boss’s authority.
The sharp pain of the scalpel cutting through my skin made me scream in agony.
But Derek impatiently stuffed a cloth into my mouth.
Suddenly, footsteps echoed outside, and Grayson’s butler rushed in with urgency.
Seeing my condition, he quickly ordered the doctor to stop.
At this point, I was already losing consciousness, feeling nothing but pain.
Derek looked puzzled when he saw the butler.
“What are you doing?”
The butler, looking anxious, said,
“Sir, you can’t do this to Miss Amelia. You two are divorced.”
Derek, hearing this, put away his smartphone and gritted his teeth,
“I didn’t agree, so it doesn’t count.”
“Besides, she cheated on me and got pregnant with someone else’s child. Don’t I have the right to punish her?”
The butler had seen the lady boss’s distress on the live stream.
After discovering it, he immediately informed the big boss and rushed over.
At this moment, Grayson appeared at the door.
Derek was somewhat alarmed upon seeing his brother.
Tessa also showed a look of delight.
Derek quickly spoke, stepping forward to prevent his brother from entering the hospital room,
“Brother, there’s no need for you to handle such a trivial matter personally. Leave, the hospital room is full of bad vibes.”
Tessa added,
“Grayson, even though we’re divorced, I still have to look after this family.”
“This woman cheated on your brother and got pregnant with another man’s child.”
Graysons face turned stern upon hearing this, ignoring them entirely.
Instead, he directly pushed them aside and quickly walked to the operating table.
Seeing my state, his eyes were filled with pain.
“Where’s the director? Get out here.”
The director, who had been outside, quickly ran in at Grayson’s call.
“Boss, what’s wrong?”
Grayson looked at the director with bloodshot eyes and said slowly,
“She’s my wife, your lady boss. Now, give her the best care possible.”
“If anything happens to her, I’m sure you’ve heard of my methods.”
After saying this, Grayson glared harshly at Derek and Tessa.
“I don’t have time to deal with you now.”
Grayson instructed the bodyguard to take them to the Grayson Family Ancestral Hall and lock them up.
The Grayson Family Ancestral Hall was used to discipline family members who made mistakes, a tradition spanning hundreds of years.
Derek and Tessa were terrified when they realized the child was Grayson’s.
“How is that possible?”
“The child is actually Grayson’s!”
Tessas tone was filled with resentment and regret,
“Why didnt she say earlier that the child was Grayson’s?”
“This is practically a death sentence for us!”
Tessa’s Family had once helped the Grayson Family, leading to a five-year marriage of convenience between Tessa and Grayson.
If Tessa couldn’t make Grayson fall in love with her within five years, they would amicably divorce.
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