Chapter 2 Only Love Can Hurt Like This

**Ophelia's POV**

I couldn't take my eyes off them. What broke my heart was when Elio then reversed their position, so that he was now on top of the woman.

Their movements became more brutal. The woman grabbed Elio's hair with her legs wrapped around his shoulders.

I bit my hand hard to vent my disappointment. My tears had been flowing since earlier.

Elio, you bastard!

Of all the places, why did it have to be our home and why did it have to be our bedroom?

And God, of all the days this year, why did you have to show it to me on this day of love? Why did you only tell me about my husband's affair a week before our wedding anniversary?

This is truly unfair. I feel like a fool.

Why does it seem like only I wanted the pregnancy and our marriage while my husband didn't? Why does it have to be like this, God?

Now it feels like all the sweet words and promises Elio ever said have become like bitter poison. None of it means anything anymore.

With him daring to cheat and have sex with another woman behind my back, it means that everything he ever said was just a lie. Either to cover up his filth or to keep me from suspecting anything.

Ouch, my stomach. It feels like it's being squeezed.

The baby in my stomach must know that its mother is hurting, which is why it is reacting like this.

I've lost count of how many tears have fallen. And I've lost count of how many times they've changed positions. But I'm still here, letting the cold air hug me.

I want to cry my tears here, before they catch me, before I express my disappointment to my husband.

Because I want them to see me without seeing my tears.

Even though it hurts so much that it's hard to breathe, I won't let them enjoy themselves at the expense of my sadness.

It took me a while to calm down. And when I was calm, it turned out that the two of them were still not finished.

I had no choice but to approach them now. I didn't want to watch any longer. I was also very curious about Elio's reaction when I told him that I was pregnant while he was making love to another woman in our bed.

I took a deep breath. And then I counted down from 20. Because in 20 seconds, I would reach that room.

Every step felt like stepping on a very sharp and long thorn. Every step felt like approaching the death that I had always hoped would come every day in the past. Every step made me wonder why I had even believed him when he said he loved me.

Now I love him too much. Now I hope for a child from him too, even though it is already in my womb.

It would be a lie to say I don't love Elio. I love him very, very much. That's why I'm so hurt. It's because I love him!

Elio was the light in my life when I was at the bottom of the abyss.

Elio lifted me out of that abyss.

And Elio was also the one who then threw me into another abyss.

My steps faltered on the stairs. My body swayed, almost falling.

After seeing that cursed shadow, I finally heard Elio's voice. It was a moan I had never heard when he made love with me.

I clenched my clothes until my fingernails turned white. I tried to continue my journey to my room with only half of my sanity remaining.

That room, the master bedroom with a photo of the two of us on the door, which I had decorated with beautiful green and red accessories, was now the place I least wanted to visit.

The door was slightly open. And from there, the light from the room shone out, reaching where I was standing.

I forced myself to approach it. And the closer I got, the clearer Elio's voice became.

But now it wasn't just Elio's voice, but the moans of a woman.

But wait... that woman's voice sounded familiar to my ears. It was like the voice I used to hear every day.

It was like the voice of... Lith, my sister.

Oh my God, this isn't what I think it is, right? It can't be that the woman whose shadow I saw and was trying to catch is Lith, right?

No, no, it's impossible that she would betray me, her own sister.

"You should visit our house often, honey. Leo misses you too. Don't forget that he's your son."

The bag I was carrying fell to the floor.

It was definitely Lith's voice.

Did I hear correctly? Leo, my nephew, who is currently 6 years old, is Elio's child with Lith?

Oh my God, what kind of awful truth is this!

My husband impregnated my sister? They were cheating behind my back and the child who had always been treated as fatherless actually had a father, and it was my husband?

Crazy. They were completely crazy!

It wasn't enough to betray me by cheating, but they also had a child from their affair? Oh my God, I didn't know what to say anymore.

It felt like all the words I had prepared just evaporated. I didn't even know what expression to make in front of them.

From the crack in the door, I could see Elio gently stroking Lith's cheek. "For now, tell our son that I can't come yet. Tell him his uncle is busy. But I promise, I'll find an excuse to get out every day off so I can be with you."