Chapter 1

I heard Halle Anderson’s voice through the curtain. She sounded hurt as she chided him lovingly.

“Why didn’t you call me immediately? Is my number just a decoration in your phone?”

Finn Denver propped himself up with much difficulty, and he acted like he was being understanding.

“You said your husband has only given you three chances. I don’t dare to…”

“Three chances?” Halle sounded agitated. “If you need me, just call me. What am I going to do if something happens to you?”

From the next bed, I listened to them as tears blurred my vision.

When the car accident took place, my mind was still very sharp. She had been the first person I called.

However, even after calling her twenty-six times, she never once answered.

Finn only had to call once, and she had immediately answered.

It was because Halle knew that I had no other family members. Regardless of how long the wait was, I would wait for her to get back to me.

At the same time, the doctor came in to treat my injuries.

When the doctor pulled the curtains open, the anger Halle had toward the “culprit” immediately disappeared.

In stunned surprise, she immediately accused me.

“You secretly looked Finn up and ran him over on purpose?”

I never expected her to act that way. Her first instinct was not to see if I was injured. Instead, she was blaming me.

Ever since I first discovered that she had been cheating on me, she hid everything regarding Finn from me.

“He comes from a difficult background. He’ll be affected if you spread the news.”

However, she announced my orphaned identity to everyone.

It was just so she could tell everyone that I would never leave her.

I swallowed the lump in my throat and forced a smile.

“That’s the fourth time. You went back on your promise.”

When I had insisted to divorce her, she stood on the edge of our balcony.

“If you divorce me, I’ll jump from here! I can’t live without you. I’ve told you that I only love you!”

I immediately felt bad. Thus, I gave her three chances to cut ties with her lover.

She cleared all evidence of her affair, and I naively thought that I had won this battle and protected my marriage.

However, reality gave me a cruel wake-up call.

“Is there any difference between three or four times? He got into a car accident! Do you expect me to ignore him heartlessly?”

Halle lowered her voice, as if she were afraid Finn would hear her.

What else could I say?

Should I say that I also got into the same car accident? Should I mention that he only grazed his knees, while I had to get ten stitches on my shoulders?

Finn suddenly called out to her.

“How’s the mediation going? Do we have to compensate him?”

Halle immediately comforted him.

“He’s fine. You should rest.”

I laughed at her words.

The pain from my physical injuries could not compare to what I felt on the inside.

The only sympathy Halle had for me was to sign off all the medical bills on the desk while I was asleep.

However, if she truly cared about me, she would have read all the documents clearly.

She would then see that I had included a divorce agreement, and she had signed that too.