LOGINI was eight months pregnant when my water broke—the same day as the birthday of my husband’s adopted son. To keep my child from being born on the same day as his adopted son's, he forced me to wait until after midnight. He refused to take me to the hospital and locked me in the basement. Adrian Shaw looked down at me. His eyes were dark and hostile. “Elena, you're really good at picking the timing, huh? Of all days, you had to go into labor on Evan’s birthday.” I begged him to take me to the hospital. A trace of disappointment flashed across his eyes, and his voice turned cold. “You’re still trying to lie to me? I asked a doctor. Even if your water breaks, you don’t give birth right away. Some women don’t deliver for three days. “All this scheming is just to secure your position as Mrs. Shaw, so your child can compete with Evan for his birthday and his place. You've really thought this through.” I took a deep breath as despair washed over me. “The baby I’m carrying is yours too! Adrian, I’m begging you. Please, for the child’s sake, save her. As long as the baby is safe, I promise I’ll never show up in front of you again.” His expression darkened. He bent down, grabbed my chin, and replied harshly, “Don’t play games with me. “As long as you stay here quietly until after midnight, I’ll take you to the hospital. Once the baby’s born, you can finally use the child to secure your place and truly marry into the Shaw family.” Later, when my contractions grew unbearable and I cried out in pain, he found me too noisy and took Evan and his mother out to celebrate instead. By the time he remembered me and asked whether I had a boy or a girl, his secretary’s face paled. “Mrs. Shaw is… gone.”
View MoreAdrian’s face twisted with hurt at my words as he pulled me tightly into his arms. “Elena, how could I ever hurt you? I love you so much. I could never let you suffer even a little.”I shoved him away with all my strength and yelled, “Then why did you come here?! Don’t you realize you’re a wanted man?!”He nodded, acknowledging it. Then, he fixed me with a desperate, longing gaze.“Elena, you’ve never liked Sue, right? She’s dead now. Evan has been sent to an orphanage. No one can stand in the way of our love anymore.“I came here for you. Everything I did was all for you, to avenge our baby! If not for Sue, I wouldn’t have misunderstood you. Our baby wouldn’t have died! We can be a happy family again!”His words sent a chill crawling through my body. I took a step back, then another.He grabbed my arm and continued, “Don’t worry. I’ve sold off all my assets and changed my identity. No one knows us here. We can return to the life we once had.”A wave of nausea and disgust rose i
The paint had long dried up, nearly all gone. Only a thin residue remained in the bucket, and the basement smelled only of blood, nothing else.It was clear just how much pain I had endured that night, and yet Adrian had refused my cries for help again and again, even pushing our child closer to death.When he saw the medicine bottles in the room, Adrian seemed desperate to confirm something and called Dr. Cady.“What’s in these bottles? Were they drugs to induce labor?”Dr. Cady hesitated for a moment before answering, “Mr. Shaw, this is folic acid—a common supplement for pregnant women.”Adrian’s straight back finally collapsed. He clawed at his hair, overcome with despair. What had he done? He had killed his own child!Dr. Cady, frightened by his wild state, fled the villa immediately.Adrian tied Mrs. Zane up in the basement and forced her to confess when she supposedly saw me secretly buy labor-inducing drugs and when I supposedly swapped the medicine.Mrs. Zane was terrif
“Elena… What you said… It’s not true, right? You’re lying to me again, aren't you? Isn’t that it? Say something!”I looked at Adrian as he lost control. I raised my hand and slapped him hard across the face and yelled, “Adrian! Take a closer look. Who do you think is lying there?! That’s the child you abandoned the night before! The one you refused to let be born!“The baby was fighting to come into this world, struggling to live! But not only did you refuse to take me to the hospital, you even locked me in the basement!”Adrian turned to the side. Inside the small coffin lay a tiny, bloodied child. His legs gave out, and he collapsed to his knees. The blow was too much. His mind shattered, grief crashing over him as he began to break down.“You’re lying to me. You have to be lying… You’re lying…”He tried to get up, but his legs would not obey. He could only crawl forward on his knees. Just as he was about to reach the child, I yanked his hand away.I glared at him. Fury blazed
“Tomorrow, 9:00 am, Green Hill Cemetery. It’s your last chance to see the child.”Then, I turned around and walked away. Adrian tried to stop me and demand an explanation, but seven or eight bodyguards closed in from all sides, blocking him where he stood.Even as Esmond watched him get shoved back into his car in the pouring rain, disheveled and humiliated, he was still not satisfied. “Elena, you’re just going to let him off like that? And you're even letting him see the baby one last time?”I stared out at the dark night beyond the window. My fists were clenched tight. “He’s the child’s father. He deserves to know the truth. As for letting him off?“He should spend the rest of his life repenting. He should wake up in the dead of night, unable to sleep at the thought of our dead child. He should drown in regret for the rest of his days.“How could I ever let him off?”…Dark clouds filled the sky above Green Hill Cemetery, and the rain only grew heavier, showing no sign of stop






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