Chapter 3

Lily's emotions erupted at that point.

"You piece of trash! Have you forgotten your promise to me and my mother?!" Lily's voice was hoarse as she shouted at the top of her lungs.

Suddenly, thunder roared outside.

Her face turned pale, and she ran out in a hurry as she mumbled, "Mom, I'm coming to save you. Wait for me. I'll be there soon."

She ran round and round the hospital grounds.

Rain fell on her face, but it hurt so much that she kept crying.

Then, she saw several people holding shovels and filling in a pit. Half of a black bag was protruding from the ground.

Without even thinking, she ran over. "Step aside!"

She lunged at the bag. The zipper had not been fully pulled up, and her mother's pale face was revealed right before her eyes. Despair and overwhelming distress filled her heart.

Lily fell on the ground and brushed the dirt from her mother's body bit by bit. The rain fell harder, and her cries grew louder. "I'm sorry, Mom. I really am."

Her mother had taken care of her like she was a princess, but her mother had been subjected to such humiliation even after her death. It was all her fault.

Rain soaked her.

All she could think about were Shaun's words. As she held her mother's dead body to her, she said firmly, "Let's go, Mom. We're leaving and never coming back here again. I don't want to be with Shaun anymore."

After Lily finished making arrangements for her mother, she went to the bank and retrieve a divorce agreement from her safe deposit box.

After signing her name on it, she went to the City Hall to have it processed.

"Once you're over the thirty-day cool-down period, you'll have completed the process. You don't need to come personally to get the divorce certificate, if you don't want to," the clerk said.

"Alright."

Shaun had given her the divorce agreement as a show of his sincerity. He had already signed it and told her that if he ever mistreated her, she could sign her name and leave.

He might have forgotten about it, but she had not.

When Lily returned to the villa, it was the next night.

She opened the door and dragged herself in.

Upon seeing her, Shaun rushed over to hug her. "Lily, where did you go? Why didn't you answer my calls?

"I know I was wrong this time, but Ninian saved my life, and I promised her that I won't meddle in this. Don't be mad at me, okay?"

Lily stared numbly at the clock hanging in the living room. "What else do you have to say?"

"Ninian grew up in the mountains and lost her parents. She's an orphan, so please be more understanding toward her."

"You want me to be more understanding, but who's going to do the same for me?!" She shoved Shaun away.

Who would understand her dead mother?

Her mother could have been saved. She had been in the operating theater already. The equipment was made to save lives, so why had her mother been denied access to them?

Suddenly, a few bodyguards appeared inside the villa.

Ninian walked down the stairs slowly. "Pin her against the wall with the rules I wrote."

Lily frowned at them. "What are you doing?"

"Those who break the rules need to be punished. You used more than you were allowed to. Obviously, you need to be punished." Ninian carried a long whip.

Lily was pinned against the wall. When she turned to face Shaun, all she saw was pity in his eyes, but he had no intention of stopping this.