Where Love Ends

After an unexpected miscarriage, I left my ward in search of Victor. I saw him inside the doctor’s office. Just as I was about to knock on the door, I overheard their conversation. “Give my wife a hysterectomy. I don’t need her to bear me any children.” Victor Gayes pulled the woman beside him to face the doctor, his hand rubbing her belly. “The baby inside her belly will be my only child. You must protect it no matter what.”I knew the woman very well. She was Victor’s secretary of three years, Rachel Aniston.Victor reminded the doctor again and again, sternly and anxiously. “You have to give her the best medicine. I won’t allow anything to go wrong with this baby!”I pulled my hand back, all my blood running cold.To think Victor would do something so heartless to me, just after I lost our baby. To think my faith in him would become a dagger, stabbed straight into my heart.I dragged my feet back to my room in a daze, the sight of Victor’s hand on Rachel’s belly replaying endlessly

“Are you alright, Mrs. Gayes? Did you hurt yourself anywhere?” Before long, a few nurses surrounded me. They exchanged looks and did not say anything, focusing on comforting me.They probably knew that my husband Victor Gayes had betrayed me. He had even robbed me of my fertility. I could not hold back my grief any longer. Once I was back in my room, I buried my face in the pillow and wept for ages.At some point, I cried myself to sleep. When I woke up, Rachel was the only one by my bedside, her expression mocking me. “You know everything, don’t you? I’m pregnant with Victor’s baby, his only baby.”Rachel picked up an orange and ate it, rubbing her belly as she taunted me.“W-When did you start the clandestine affair?” I clenched my fists, my nails digging into my palms. The pain was nothing compared to the agony in my heart.Rachel scoffed and held up three fingers. “Three years ago, when I joined the company. He didn’t bring you to a party, and I accepted many drinks on his behalf

If I had not known that he was marrying another woman tomorrow, I may have fallen for his sweet words again.He hurriedly left the hospital, saying he wanted to give me time to rest. Once I calmed down my emotions, I left the hospital and returned to the home we built together.It was now just an empty, soulless house. I packed my things briefly, put the divorce papers on the table, and left.The flight to Australia took me away from the places I had known, leaving my past in the clouds. Goodbye, Victor. We shall never meet again.The next day before the wedding, Victor realized he could not reach me no matter how he tried. He instantly abandoned Rachel in her wedding dress, running straight for the hospital.All that awaited him was a long-empty bed.Victor ran around the hospital like a madman, searching every room for his precious Nina.“Nina Morgan, come out! I’m begging you, this isn’t funny!”Victor searched the whole hospital to no avail, then he broke the speed limit to rush

At some point, a young man named Silas Kent became my neighbor. After he moved in, my house became much livelier.We watched movies, went out for meals, and traveled together like old friends. Our relationship was close and natural. He even wrote down my preferences in his notepad.There were times when his figure would overlap with Victor’s in my memory.I knew they were different, though. Silas was kind and gentle, and he never yelled at anyone. He even told me once that he had someone he liked.Once after a flood, I was forced to move in with Silas temporarily.Movietime after dinner was when I was most emotionally frail. “Was my cooking too salty or did I give you too much water to drink? Why are you always crying after dinner lately?” Silas gave me a plate of fruit salad and changed the TV to a comedy.He never asked me about my past. He only said to look forward to the future. I knew that he was right, of course. It was just there were times I would come across things that remi

A week later, I was working part-time at the mall collecting donations for an orphanage. To my surprise, I encountered Rachel.She stood rooted to the spot, her eyes red as she stared at me. “Are you really giving up on him, just like that? After everything he did for you…“Do you still blame him after reading the report? He pasted it together piece by piece. After he found out about your sickness, he cried every time he read it…”I pretended not to see or hear her, arranging the things on the table.“Nina, Victor needs you. All I ask is that you tell him not to fire me! I can accept a change in my position, I’ll take any position! I need this job to raise my baby…”“Keep me out of your matters. I don’t have anything to do with you or him anymore,” I said calmly. Rachel froze.My disappointment in Victor had piled up like scars on my body. There was no way I could forget them all. Even if he truly loved me at one point, I no longer wanted any of his love.Rachel suddenly fell