Chapter 5

Cassie was waiting outside the hospital the next morning.

The moment she saw Sasha, she rushed forward. “Are you satisfied now?” she demanded sharply.

Sasha stopped walking.

Cassie’s eyes were red, but her expensive clothes and makeup were still perfect.

“Joseph forced me to leave the mansion because of you. The children cried all night.” 

“That sounds like a problem between you and Joseph.” She pointed out with a bored expression.

Cassie sneered as a provocative smile curled up her lips. “You know he only did it because you are holding the company’s money over his head.”

Sasha looked at her calmly. “So you know why he sent you away.”

Cassie’s face changed. “You think you won? Joseph loves his children. He will never remove us from his life.”

“I don’t want him.”

“Stop lying. You have been jealous of me since the day you married him.”

Cassie moved closer. “You cannot give him a child. That is why you are so desperate to take mine.”

Sasha’s fingers tightened around the folder in her hand. Before she could respond, Joseph’s voice sounded from behind them.

“Cassie.”

Cassie immediately changed her expression. “Joseph, I only came to ask Sasha to stop punishing the children.”

“I told you to leave her alone.” He reprimanded her.

Sasha looked at Joseph.

He walked between the two women and faced Cassie.

“Sasha is my wife. You cannot come to her workplace and cause trouble.” 

Cassie’s lips trembled. “But Joseph—”

“Go home.” He dropped.

Seeing that several hospital workers had stopped to watch, Joseph deliberately raised his voice.

“I will handle my marriage. You need to stop interfering.” He cautioned her seriously.

Cassie stared at him in disbelief.

She eventually turned and walked away.

Joseph faced Sasha with a satisfied expression. He believed he had given her exactly what she wanted. “I told you I would deal with her.”

Sasha said nothing.

“My mother also agreed not to bring up your infertility again.”

“How generous.” Her tone laced with sarcasm.

Joseph ignored her tone.

“You can come home now. The children miss you, and my mother is willing to forget what happened.”

She arched a brow. “And the company?”

His expression became serious. “The board is still waiting for your emergency plan. Once you transfer the money, I can control the situation.”

Sasha looked at him for several seconds. “You sent Cassie away temporarily, told your mother to stop insulting me, and now you expect thirty million dollars.”

Joseph frowned, “We are husband and wife. It is our money.” He pointed out.

“No. It was left to me by my parents.” Sasha countered.

“I supported you for six years.”

Sasha laughed. “You supported me?”

Her laugh made Joseph uncomfortable. “You lived in my house,” he replied.

“I paid the mortgage.”

He narrowed his eyes, “You used the Westfield name.”

“I built the Westfield Group’s medical division.”

“My family accepted a barren woman who could not give me children.”

Sasha’s expression became still.

Joseph noticed the change and believed he had finally reached the part that hurt her.

His voice softened. “I never divorced you because you were infertile. That should prove I care about you.”

Sasha silently opened the folder. She removed the first medical report and placed it against his chest.

Joseph automatically took it. His mouth twitched, “What is this?” 

“My examination.”

He looked down. His eyes moved across the report before his expression changed. “That is impossible.” He breathed out.

“My uterus and ovaries are healthy. I was never permanently infertile.”

Joseph looked up sharply.

Sasha removed the second report. “This is the medicine your mother forced me to drink every morning.”

Joseph read the toxicology result and his face slowly lost its color.

“It contains a fertility suppressant,” Sasha explained. “According to my bloodwork, I have been taking it for almost six years.”

“No way, you must be imagining things.”

“Someone in your family has been drugging me.” she pressed on.

He sneered, “Sasha, this is ridiculous.”

“Then explain the reports.” She narrowed her eyes on him.

Joseph looked between the two pages.

His mouth opened, but no words came out.

Hera’s voice suddenly came from behind them. “What nonsense are you telling my son?”

She had arrived with Lily and Ethan.

Cassie was also standing several steps behind her. She had not actually left.

Hera reached for the reports, but Sasha pulled them away.

“You have no right to touch these.”

“You ungrateful woman!” Hera shouted. “We spent years buying medicine for you, and now you are accusing us of poisoning you?”

“You did not buy medicine to help me.” She refuted immediately.

Sasha held up the toxicology report. “You gave me drugs that prevented me from becoming pregnant. Then you used my infertility to humiliate me for six years.”

People began gathering around them.

Hera’s face burned red. “Lower your voice!” she warned.

Sasha scoffed lightly, “Why? Are you afraid people will hear what you did?”

Lily frowned impatiently. “Why are you doing this to Grandma? She was only trying to help you.”

Ethan looked at Joseph. “Dad, make her stop.”

Sasha looked at the children she had raised. Neither of them asked if she was all right.

Joseph stepped closer. “We will discuss this at home.”

“I’m not going home.” She refused flatly.

“Sasha, don't be stubborn.” He urged her.

She shook her head. “You still don’t understand.” She glanced at every member of the family.

They had all believed she would return.

Joseph believed sending Cassie away for a few days would make Sasha give him her inheritance.

Hera believed Sasha would continue accepting every insult because she had nowhere else to go.

Cassie believed she could take Sasha’s husband, money, and work while leaving Sasha responsible for her children.

The children believed Sasha would always serve them no matter how they treated her.

They still saw the same woman who had died beneath the crowd.

That woman no longer existed.

“You took my salary, my work, and six years of my life,” Sasha said. “You used my money to build your company and raise another woman’s children.”

Joseph’s expression darkened. “Be careful what you say.”

“You poisoned me and called me barren. Then you expected me to give you my parents’ inheritance.”

“Sasha, stop this now.” He warned seriously.

“No, I wont.” Her voice remained calm.

“I will not save the Westfield Group again. I will not raise Cassie’s children. I will not pay for your mother’s life, and I will never return to your house.”

Joseph stared at her and for the first time, uncertainty appeared in his eyes.

Sasha stepped closer and took the medical reports from his hands. “You all thought I was still the barren fool who would pay for the chance to be loved.”

She looked directly at him. “That woman is dead.” She declared.

She narrowed her eyes as her gaze burned with determination. “I will take back everything I gave the Westfields.”

“And when I am finished, none of you will have anything left.”