Chapter 5

Edward seemed to be completely enraged.

“Leave me? No way!”

With that, he didn’t even spare me a glance. His features twisted with fury as he ordered the bodyguards coldly,

“Keep a close eye on the Donna. She isn’t allowed to take a single step outside.”

“If anything happens to the Donna or the baby, you won’t live to see another day.”

After making his position clear to me, Edward openly brought Alice home.

It was as if he wanted to make me jealous, so he went out of his way to spoil Alice.

He bought her limited-edition necklaces, let her wear my pajamas, and even appeared with Alice in the promotional video for the opening of the Family’s club.

Alice smiled sweetly.

“The Don took me to pick out our wedding rings. Is the next surprise going to be a proposal?”

She happily spread her fingers.

The ring on her ring finger caught the light so brightly that it hurt my eyes.

Behind her, Edward was beaming, gazing at her with undisguised affection.

Suddenly, I remembered his trembling hands at our wedding.

His eyes had been red as he nervously slipped the wedding ring onto my finger and swore before God that he would never betray me for the rest of his life.

Unwilling to accept this, I exposed Edward’s affair on the Family’s internal network.

The post was deleted the very next second after it went up.

The bedroom door was suddenly kicked open with a deafening bang.

Edward’s furious voice rang.

“Monica, why can’t you just behave? I told you I would never let Alice affect your position. Why do you keep pushing this?”

I looked at the man who had once shielded me from dangerous, now questioning me because of another woman.

My heart felt as though countless needles were piercing it over and over again.

The pain was so intense I could barely breathe.

“Then let’s get a divorce.”

“Once I’m gone, I’ll never bother her again.”

Alice walked in.

She was dressed in haute couture, wearing the latest designer necklace.

At a glance, it was obvious she was Edward’s carefully cherished rose.

The contrast between her and me couldn’t have been more striking.

I sat on the floor with my hair disheveled, my swollen belly exposed, tears streaming down my face.

“You’re almost thirty. Why are you still throwing a tantrum about getting a divorce?”

“And besides, you killed your parents—who would dare marry you? who would ever marry a woman like you?”

Her casual words felt like thousand-pound stones crushing my chest, leaving me almost unable to breathe.

“What did you say?”

I abruptly lifted my head and looked at Edward.

He didn’t dare meet my eyes, but he didn’t stop Alice to talk either.

“You told her?”

Alice shoved me in displeasure.

“Why are you yelling at me?”

“The Don is still willing to keep you around. You should be grateful.”

“If you weren’t pregnant, why would the Don still be with you?”

“That’s enough!”

Edward shot Alice a warning look before walking toward me, as if he wanted to hold me.

“Don’t touch me! You disgust me!”

I shoved Edward away in disgust.

The look I gave him was no different from the way I would look at an enemy.

Edward’s body stiffened.

In the middle of the struggle, the floor lamp beside us toppled over.

In an instant, Edward shoved me aside and shielded Alice with his body.

The lamp crashed down on me.

Shards of glass sank viciously into my lower leg, and a wave of excruciating pain surged through me.

Alice curled herself into Edward’s arms and looked at me like a victor.

“Monica, I just didn’t see clearly…”

Edward froze for a moment.

When he looked at me again, his eyes were filled with panic.

“Don, it hurts so much.”

Alice let out a fake cry.

Edward immediately scooped her into his arms and rushed her to the hospital.

The instinctive way he protected Alice left me unable to breathe.

As my wound was being treated, my phone buzzed repeatedly with messages from him.

“These past few days have been my fault. I’ll take care of everything.”

“Monica, I really do still love you.”

My body hurt, but my heart hurt even more.

I no longer wanted to torture myself over whether his love was real or not.

I leaned back against the headboard and drifted into a deep sleep.

I dreamed of the past.

Because of my pathetic kindness, I had brought a spy from our rival Family back home.

That mistake exposed one of the Family’s operations, and my parents died because of it.

That winter night, I curled up in Edward’s arms, sobbing until my whole body shook with convulsions.

Again and again, he kissed my forehead and whispered,

“Monica, from now on, I’m your family.”

He patted my back and told me that none of it had been my fault.

He was the one who saved me.

But how did we end up like this?