Chapter 4

My family had gone broke once in the past. To save the family, Mom had sold her most prized family heirloom, this crystal amulet. And after she passed away, her only regret was selling it off and not being able to buy it back before she left.

When Kirsten learned about it, she immediately contacted various parties and eventually spent a colossal sum of money to get the amulet.

I had been so deeply moved back then, and I kept telling her that I didn't know how I would ever make it up to her.

Her tone had been calm, and her eyes were filled with love, when she said, "Well, then, you could give yourself to me in exchange. I want to marry you, Mitch Coleman."

The crystal amulet served as a token of our love. She lovingly placed Mom's only remaining possession around my neck after that.

But now, Kirsten was telling me a different story.

"I only gave you the amulet because I wanted to marry you. But since you're divorcing me now, you're no longer my husband. What right do you have to take it away with you? You can't possibly think that you're still worth three million dollars now, can you?"

Her cruel words shattered the last illusion of my dignity. I suppressed the pain in my chest and said, "The three million dollars… I'll find a way to pay it back…"

"I don't need it!" Kirsten shouted, cutting me off. "Did you think that I was after money, Mitch? You're the one who abandoned this family first. You're the one who abandoned this home. And so, I will only be giving this amulet to the next man who wants to be my husband."

Then, she turned around and fastened the crystal amulet around Jordan's neck, just like how she did when she proposed to me six years ago.

However, Jordan made sure Kirsten couldn't see him as he mouthed the words to me, "I'm not keeping a dead woman's toy with me. Such terrible luck."

I felt all the blood rush to my head at that moment and lunged forward, trying to snatch it from him.

"If you think it's terrible, then just give it back to me!"

I'd only just touched him when he suddenly fell backward and landed heavily on his front. At the same time, the crystal amulet on his chest was smashed to pieces.

My mind went completely blank. Kirsten was equally as shocked.

Jordan held up his hand, which he'd cut with a crystal shard, and looked at Kirsten with reddened eyes. "Kirsten… It hurts so much…"

Kirsten immediately snapped back to her senses and shoved me aside. "Are you out of your mind, Mitch Coleman! That was the only heirloom that your mom left for you! How could you bear to destroy it all for the sake of hurting Jordan!"

I also fell heavily to the floor. She had knocked into me so forcefully that the incision in my lower right abdomen began throbbing in pain.

I shuddered hard, withstanding the pain as I tried to explain, "I never pushed him. He was the one who fell on purpose to smash the amulet—"

"That's enough!" Kirsten was furious. "You're the one who went batshit crazy on him, and now, you're still trying to blame him? If you never rushed at him, the amulet would never have…"

A hint of panic flashed in her eyes. I heard her inner voice panicking.

[What should I do? Honey's amulet is destroyed! That's the only thing he's ever cared about! I don't have a way to make him stay with me anymore! But I don't want him to leave… I don't want to watch him leave me…]

All of a sudden, Kirsten yanked me up from the ground. Before I knew it, I was thrown into the pitch-black storeroom.

"You hurt Jordan. And you're clearly out of your mind. I'm locking you in here for a day until you finally calm down."

The pain in my abdomen got even worse. I felt a trickle of warm, sticky liquid spilling from my wound, and I immediately began to panic.