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No Way Home

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Cheating

Adventure

Homewrecker

Ruthless

Tragic Love

Melodramatic

My billionaire wife had just given birth when I was abducted and trapped in a sick, underground survival game. While I was sprinting through the woods with our newborn strapped to my back, Scarlett’s best friend’s voice boomed through the PA speakers. “Shouldn’t you be at home with your newborn and Damian? What are you doing here? Is your lover boy starting drama again?” Scarlett chuckled, her voice full of resigned affection. “Yeah. Jayden demanded some real entertainment. Damian thinks I have urgent work to take care of at the office, so he practically pushed me out the door while the kid was having surgery. He’s a sweet, naive idiot.” I tapped against the security camera lens, desperate to get Scarlett’s attention, but Jayden’s terrified scream distracted her into hitting the shock button on her remote control. The high-voltage electricity ran through me, and our newborn choked up blood, staining the earth. I curled around our son, sobbing in despair. As footsteps crunched closer, the high-rollers raised their stakes. It was a bet to see who would survive to the very end.

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10 Chapters
Chapter 1
Scarlett Poole’s voice was icy. “Ten million on the insane father and son to die.” The crowd broke out in laughter, shaking their heads. There were clearly no winners in this game. Anyone with limited mobility and a child strapped on their back would have trouble evading the pack of hyenas and young, aggressive NPC pursuers. However, Scarlett couldn’t care less. She simply slid a stack of high-roller chips onto the table. “Ten million bucks to keep my Jayden happy.” “You’re the queen, Scarlett. You just dropped ten mil on your lover boy, but I believe your husband’s wedding band only cost a grand. He’d cry his eyes out if he ever finds out. Hahaha!” Scarlett lit a cigar for Jayden Cast while uttering matter-of-factly, “Lovers are meant to be spoiled. Damian is sensible and frugal. A credit card with a modest limit is enough to make his day.” Listening to her voice, I could hardly reconcile the woman speaking with the loving wife I knew.Through eight years together, I
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Chapter 2
No one had any idea that the woman resting in Jayden's arms on the viewing platform, the one relentlessly trying to kill me, was my wife.All I could do was watch as the woman, who had embraced me that very morning and promised me the moon and the stars, expressed her love for Jayden over and over again in front of everyone.With the hyenas’ breath inching closer to my throat, I could also see the Grim Reaper waving at me. Just as I thought that was the end of me, Jayden’s voice echoed from the viewing platform. “I change my mind. How about we up the ante? “Since he’s going to die anyway, babe, why don’t we play a little game? “It’s about guessing whether the boy has symmetrical hearts to the guy.”Jayden’s malicious tone blared across the loudspeakers, exploding in my ears. As Scarlett furrowed her brows, I hoped for a second that she would recall her promise to me. For today’s surgery to separate our child's fused heart, Scarlett clung to her cross pendant and clasped
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Chapter 3
“Talk about eerie.” As disdain wiped out all doubt in Scarlett’s eyes, she yanked a clump of cotton filling from the mattress. Scarlett stuffed a handful of stuffing into my mouth. My eyes widened, and I thrashed to get up. No human could handle the fine cotton fibers down their trachea. It was much worse for me because I had severe asthma. Yet, my struggles were met with another smack. Scarlett’s indifferent eyes turned into joy when the phone rang. “Damian’s gone missing? He must be in the operating room while the baby’s undergoing surgery.“Quick! Order the most expensive baby care and recovery equipment available. Book the best private pediatric recovery center too. My son’s finally going to be a normal little boy.” Scarlett shook emotionally, oblivious to the fact that Damian was lying right in front of her. The dying infant next to me was actually the son she supposedly loved. The blade sliced through layers of tissue and muscle as my breathing grew shallow.
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Chapter 4
Scarlett brutally killed the very child she had longed for. The moment we went our separate ways, the last trace of feelings I had for Scarlett was gone. The detour took nearly twice as long in time. Once I was loaded into the ambulance, the vehicle was blocked in by Scarlett’s car convoy. As my blood pressure plummeted, the paramedic dashed out of the ambulance and shouted, “Someone’s dying here. Please get out of the way!” However, Jayden and Scarlett stood out front, refusing to budge. “My son’s in surgery today. Jayden has a point. I can’t let someone else’s bad luck bring him any harm. It was always, 'Jayden said this, Jayden said that.' Everything came back to Jayden.Apparently, Jayden’s word was the law to Scarlett. She’d kill a baby and get in front of an emergency vehicle just to ward off bad luck. Anguish filled my chest and sucked the air out of me. I struggled to sit up and yelled at the top of my lungs, “Scarlett, you monster!” As Scarlett’s eyes turn
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Chapter 5
I believed I might be dead. As my eyelids fell shut, all the pain just disappeared. Adrift in a haze, I thought I could finally sleep in peace. However, my soul hovered into the air on its own. Only when I stood alongside the weeping medical staff, gazing down at my own bloodstained body, did I realize I was, in fact, dead.Had the young nurse not been clutching the dead man’s hand so tightly, I would never have believed I was lying there. In less than twenty-four hours, I, who used to be obsessed with cleanliness, looked like I came from the dump. I was caked in blood and grime, reeking of stale sweat. My body was covered in cuts and bruises. The mottled scars had taken on a sickly white hue.Amid her weeping, the young nurse cleaned out the scraps of cotton in my mouth. The head nurse gave her a nudge. “It’s time to wrap it up and inform his next of kin.” The door of the operating room swung open. Scarlett was back again. She aggressively barged into the opera
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Chapter 6
It felt like a sick joke played by fate. Scarlett clutched the ring and stared at it long and hard.It took a while before her voice cracked. “This… can’t be real.” With things spiraling out of control, Jayden took her arm, but Scarlett pushed him away. As reality seemed to crash down on her, Scarlett staggered toward me. “Damian, babe… Is that really you? “This isn’t happening. You had so many chances to tell me. Why didn’t you say something?” Scarlett’s eyes were bloodshot with regret, but all I wanted to do was sneer at her. Didn’t say something? What about the hand gestures I signed? What were those repeated attempts to grab her hand then? I did everything I could to tell her that I was Damian. Yet, what did I get in return? My pleas to her were met with threats and physical attacks that knocked my teeth out. Worst of all, Scarlett’s mind wandered to the infant with his tiny body cut open. She froze, her complexion discolored. Her teeth chattered violently.
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Chapter 7
Unable to accept the fact that I was in a coma, Scarlett summoned all the top neurosurgeons in the world for a consultation.In between, Scarlett visited and took notes of families whose loved ones had woken up from their coma. She offered tens of millions of dollars for any information at all. Once, she put a ten-million-dollar price on my life. Now, she was willing to pay over ten times that just to wake me up.Still, no amount of money or desperate measures could change the outcome.There was nothing she could do except pray for a miracle. That day, Scarlett fell awfully silent as the doctors gave their medical opinions. Without a word, she drove to the old hillside chapel where I’d often gone and knelt before the altar before lighting a candle for our son. Instead of placing it among the candles for healing and hope, the church attendant carried it to the remembrance table, where photographs, sympathy cards, and handwritten prayers honored those who had passed away.S
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Chapter 8
Jayden noticed that Scarlett had been swamped lately. He barely got to see her. Scarlett split her time between visiting me at the hospital and the office. The back-and-forth pushed her mind and body to the brink of exhaustion. Overjoyed, Jayden saw this as his golden opportunity. He put on Scarlett’s favorite lab coat roleplay outfit and hid inside her private lounge at the office. Scarlett would get a nosebleed when she walked right into the steamy room. Previously, all it took was this outfit for Scarlett to throw herself at him, making the bed squeak through the entire night.Feeling her hand on his shoulder, Jayden shivered with thrill as if he could already see his future as the husband of the richest woman in the city. However, Scarlett simply took a callous look at him and smacked him square in the jaw. “My husband is in a coma right now, and you think this is appropriate? Is this some kind of sick joke? “If you make an enemy of Damian, you’ve made one of me.”
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Chapter 9
“Scarlett, it hurts!” Scarlett didn’t even look at Jayden. The second our eyes met, Scarlett took strides toward me. When she was just a step away, I squeezed out every last drop of my strength and rasped, “Don’t come any closer! You make my skin crawl!” She teared up, hurt by the look in my eyes. In the past, all she had to do was look fragile, and I would forgive her for anything at all. This time, she could bawl her eyes out for all I cared. I would not feel anything for her. She reached me and wrapped both hands around mine, holding on with desperate strength as I struggled against her.“Damian, please… I made the biggest mistake of my life. I’ve ended things with Jayden. He’s out of our lives for good. You’re the only one for me. “I know you can’t forgive me right now. I don’t blame you. Our son’s death... it’s on me.“I’ll make it up to you. Trust me. I’ve changed.” She was inconsolable. The mention of our son unleashed the rage and hatred in me. She coul
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Chapter 10
“Scarlett, did you really think God would answer prayers that were never meant to come true?” With each word I spoke, Scarlett grew paler, and her shoulders slumped. She then pulled out a knife. I inched back warily. To my surprise, Scarlett handed me the blade, her eyes flushed red. “Here, take the blade. You can kill me if that makes you feel better.” Her eyes bore no fear. As I barely held onto the blade, Scarlett became sure that I could never hurt her. Not shattering her illusion, I kept giving her an attitude. “Oh, really? Why, though? Aren’t you head over heels in love with Jayden? “With me out of the way, he’ll become your husband.” Scarlett took the bait and swore up and down right in front of Jayden. “Trust me, Damian. He was nothing but a fling to me. “I’ll get rid of him now.” The brutality in her gaze made me shudder. I would have held a sliver of respect for her had she stood firmly by her affection for Jayden. However, she simply narrowed
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