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Chapter 3

Author: Nora Blythe
I sat in the living room for the entire night.

At dawn, I found a slightly yellowed prenup in one of the drawers.

Edgar had signed the agreement.

I rubbed the edge of the page. The end date of the agreement was next month.

After that fight, Edgar and Charlie did not come home for some time. I also had a lot of surgeries to tend to.

I did not want to return to that cold and empty house.

Hence, I rented a house outside, and I did not return home either.

I contacted a divorce lawyer to draft our divorce agreement.

In fact, after my mother passed away, I should have already drafted the divorce agreement.

However, I wanted a home. I was also infatuated with Edgar.

It turned out that giving up was not as difficult as I thought it would be.

Initially, I thought things would proceed smoothly.

That was until an academic lecture a month later.

The huge hall was extremely quiet.

Someone kicked the door open.

Lana had tears in her eyes. She ignored the security guards’ attempts to stop her as she charged onto the stage and grabbed my collar.

“Violet, I’m the one you should be directing your anger to! Why did you harm Edgar’s child?”

Her voice resounded in the hall through the microphone.

Everyone started whispering.

The news cameras kept snapping pictures of me.

My face was pale. I did not know what happened when Lana choked me and roared, “It’s one thing to be a homewrecker. I’m the child’s mother. How could you do something like that?

“Because of you, I almost lost the baby I’m having with Edgar!”

Lana cried and collapsed onto the floor before me. She kept begging, “Please let me go. Please stop harassing Edgar. Don’t break my family apart.”

My mind went blank as I stared at Lana’s crying face in a daze.

“So… Is Dr. Reid a homewrecker?” someone from the crowd asked out loud, and everyone gasped.

My head snapped up, and I immediately denied it. “No, I’m Edgar’s lawful wife…”

However, my voice was buried in the crowd.

They charged forward. Some of them were throwing the microphones at me as they yelled.

A few of my colleagues stared at me in disgust.

Amidst the chaos, Edgar finally appeared.

He strode forward and helped Lana up. Then, he kept comforting her.

“Alright. It’s just a misunderstanding…”

Someone recognized Edgar, so they asked him for the truth.

“Mr. Anderson! He’s the CEO of Anderson Corporation…”

“I didn’t know that Dr. Reid married a rich man!”

“Mr. Anderson, Violet claimed to be your wife. Is that true?”

Edgar, who had no idea what had happened earlier, finally came to a realization.

He quickly looked up at me.

I stared at him with my fists clenched.

However, very soon, he avoided my gaze.

“I’m having a child with Lana. Dr. Reid’s just my wife’s doctor.”

Something broke in me.

Edgar did not dare to look at me. He held Lana’s hand and quickly left the hall.

Edgar had left me alone to face the horrible consequences.

The talk was ruined by that incident.

The hospital CEO felt that I had embarrassed the hospital, so he suspended me.

He also gave away my spot in an overseas studies opportunity to another doctor.

In five years, I lost my mother, my family, and my career.

Thanks to Edgar, I was left with nothing.

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