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Chapter 3

Penulis: Tyrant’s Flower
Austin was certain that I would never leave him.

When I walked away with my suitcase, he did not stop me.

Instead, he said, “It’s probably good for you to spend some time with your mom anyway.

“Once I’m done handling things on my end, your mother should be feeling better by then.

“I’ll come to the hospital myself and pick you both up.”

“Hmm,” I responded briefly.

I was not coming back anyway. Why say more than necessary?

Just as I was about to leave the front door, Tawny blocked my path.

“Stop right there!

“I’m the lady of this house now. You can’t take a single thing from here.”

I did not want to argue with her. I suppressed my anger and explained, “These are all my clothes. I haven’t taken anything that belongs to the Revelstone family.”

She insisted on opening the suitcase for inspection. As we were tugging back and forth, the phone rang.

“Hello, is this Ms. Shearing? Your mother suddenly became very agitated. Her condition is critical.

“If you can’t get here within half an hour, I’m afraid you won’t make it in time.”

My body trembled uncontrollably. I did not hear a single word after that.

In my panic, I grabbed Austin’s sleeve.

“My mother is dying. Please. Take me to the hospital.”

Austin froze for a moment.

Just as he was about to leave with me, Tawny took out her phone and feigned surprise.

“Mrs. Shearing is clearly doing fine. Why would you say she’s about to die?”

In the photo, my mother sat in a wheelchair. She looked radiant, sunbathing on the lawn downstairs at the hospital.

I immediately recognized at first glance that it was not my mother at all.

For the past two weeks, she had been kept alive on nothing but IV fluids. She could not even get out of bed on her own. She also looked way thinner than she did in that photo.

I rushed forward to argue with Tawny as I shouted out the truth at the top of my lungs, “That photo’s Photoshopped. It’s not real!”

Austin raised his hand and slapped me. My head snapped to the side.

“That’s enough. You’d curse out your own mother just to compete for my attention.

“Briar, I really had you wrong all this time.”

I looked at him in utter disbelief as I tasted blood in my mouth.

All he had to do was call the hospital. He also could have simply looked at the photo more closely. Either way, he would have known Tawny was lying.

He had convicted me based solely on her words.

Even though I had already decided to give up on this relationship, my heart still hurt so bad I could not breathe.

Austin was already holding Tawny’s hand and pinching her cheeks affectionately.

“Tawny’s still the sweetest, most innocent one of all.”

Before going upstairs, he instructed the bodyguards, “The missus is a little emotional right now. Take her to her room and let her rest.

“Until Tawny forgives her, she doesn’t leave that room for one second.”

Several burly men dragged me into a guest room. They slammed the door shut and locked it.

My last glimmer of hope was completely shattered.

I pressed myself against the crack in the door and screamed Austin at the top of my lungs.

“Austin, you’re going to regret this!”

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  • My Husband Died For His Sins   Chapter 10

    In the days that followed, I traveled between the base and the quarters every day as I usually did.Austin still followed behind me daily. At first, he tried to get close to me and even tried to speak with me.He said, “Briar, I’m not asking for your forgiveness. I’m just asking you to give me a chance to make things right.”He told me he had resigned from his position as CEO of the Revelstone Group. So, wherever I went, he would go.“Back then, I climbed to that position so that you and your mother could have a good life.“Now that I’ve lost you both, what use do I have for all that power and status?”Austin spoke like he was making some big, noble sacrifice. He acted as if he were a reformed bad boy coming to his senses.His words only made me despise him even more.“Whether you admit it or not, everything you do is for yourself. That includes trying to win me back and acting sorry.“Tawny was right. You really are a piece of trash. You’re a complete, selfish opportunist, th

  • My Husband Died For His Sins   Chapter 9

    Austin raised his hand slightly. Five Tibetan mastiffs that had been starved for three days were also driven into the cage.The next second, Tawny’s heart-wrenching screams echoed throughout the entire mountain hollow.She looked at the man who had once spoiled her to the heavens. He had pushed her into the abyss for the woman he had abandoned.She cried and then laughed in exasperation.She asked Austin, “Do you think doing all this would earn her forgiveness?“Too bad. She’ll never forgive you.”She looked into his ruthless gaze and said deliberately, “Because you are nothing but a total piece of garbage.”Tawny once thought that defeating Briar meant Austin would spoil her forever. She finally realized that the man before her was a classic jerk. He only ever valued what he could not have. She only hated figuring it out too late. At the same time, she felt a new respect and envy for the woman who got out in time.After dealing with Tawny, Austin went to the cemetery.Aft

  • My Husband Died For His Sins   Chapter 8

    The photo album fell to the floor. Austin immediately stood up and took the address from his assistant’s hand.Solstitia.It was a foreign landmass over six thousand miles away from him.“Why would she go there? She’s the one who hates the cold the most,” he murmured to himself.One year, Austin and I had gone hiking in the snowy mountains. We accidentally got separated from our guide. The two of us were trapped in the freezing snow.To keep us alive back then, I forced him to wear my cold-weather gear.I had told him, “If only one of us can make it out alive, it has to be you.”Through tears, I had told him, “Austin, I can’t imagine how I’d go on living without you.“So please forgive me for being selfish.”Did he not feel the same way? We had become two halves of one whole. One could not go on without the other.In the end, we were both rescued. Because I had been exposed to the cold for too long, my legs were frostbitten.Even to this date, I still feel sharp pains duri

  • My Husband Died For His Sins   Chapter 7

    Austin remained in his study at home. He sat there quietly without eating or drinking.In his hand was a photo album that contained the proof of twenty years of love between him and me.The first photo in the album showed a little girl with braids. She was feeding a beggar dressed in rags.“Mom, look! There’s a beggar kid passed out over here!”He remembered the first time we met. The corners of his lips curled into a faint smile.Twenty years ago, my mother and I went on an outing in the countryside when we found him as a little boy passed out from hunger by a ditch.He was ten years old that year. His mother had fallen into a creek while gathering herbs to sell so she could pay for his school fees. She never came back.He became a homeless child with nowhere to go. He survived on moldy bread he begged for each day.After he met my mother and me, he had a home again.The second photo was a high school graduation picture.He and I wore blue and white graduation gowns as we

  • My Husband Died For His Sins   Chapter 6

    When Austin saw the agreement I had signed for the overseas research program, along with the security footage of me boarding the plane and taking off, he could no longer hold himself up. He staggered and collapsed to the floor.He muttered to himself, “No. Briar wouldn’t leave me. She promised we’d never abandon each other.”He remembered the vows we had made at our wedding.“For richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health, I will love you and cherish you until death do us part.”Both of us were perfectly healthy, yet I did not want him anymore. I had left him behind all alone.He knelt on the floor and cried bitterly, “Briar, I was wrong.“I’ve let you down. I’m sorry. This is all my fault.”He thought about how, ever since he met Tawny, he had been acting like he was not himself. He had completely thrown away twenty years of shared love and devotion. Worse than that, he had used my mother’s condition as leverage to force me into sharing him with another woman.He tried

  • My Husband Died For His Sins   Chapter 5

    Tawny had not expected me to secretly record the scene of her mocking me and play it in front of everyone.She had anticipated the wedding for so many days, but it had been completely ruined. Her carefully maintained image of an innocent and kind young woman was utterly shattered.Deep in her heart, she cursed me viciously. “Briar, you evil wench!“You’ve ruined everything for me. I hope you rot in hell!”But she forgot one thing. She had brought this upon herself.The guests all looked at her with strange expressions. They pointed at her and whispered among themselves.“So, this is the angel Austin was willing to dump his wife for. She’s turned out to be nothing more than a murderous snake.”“I’ve known it all along. A homewrecker could never be a decent person. I just didn’t think she’d be even more heartless than I imagined.”“Right. She stole another woman’s husband, then killed the child and the mother. How ruthless can you be to do something like that?”Tawny’s face turn

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