บททั้งหมดของ It Ended on the Decade: บทที่ 1 - บทที่ 9

[If we had been a little braver back then...]Tears rolled down my cheeks in an instant as a bitter smile formed on my lips.What would being braver change?Would I have been completely excluded?I stayed with Samuel Moore as he clawed his way up from the wreckage of his family's bankruptcy. I stayed with him through the despair of losing both his parents. I stayed with him step by step until he built the success he has today.For ten years, we shared every hardship. I thought we were the only ones for each other.It turned out I was only a stand-in. I just happened to appear during the long years when he could not confess his love to the one he could never forget.Trembling, I made my way to the furthest room inside our home.The study.In our decade of marriage, he had never let me set foot inside.He had said it was where he placed his parents' and older brother's belongings. He said he needed a quiet place to remember them.I believed him and never questioned it.The do

Samuel froze. He still believed I was just throwing a tantrum. "Cindy! What's wrong with you! All this because I didn't take you on a trip? And you're already taking it all the way to divorce?! How childish can you get?"Morgan rushed over, too, and he kept pounding my legs with his fists. "Bad mom! You're bullying Rachel! I hate you!"Rachel immediately stepped in and pulled Morgan back as she put on a saintly look. "Don't be mad, Cindy. This is all my fault. If you really can't stand me, I'll leave right now..."The way she acted made my stomach turn.I immediately slapped her and said in a cold voice, "The kind of people I can't stand the most are fakes like you."Rachel held her swollen face and shrieked.Samuel lunged forward and shoved her behind him as he roared at me, "You witch!"Right then, Morgan charged in and shoved me hard. "You bad person! You're not allowed to bully Rachel!"I didn't brace myself, and the back of my head slammed into the wall. I slipped down to

The whole Moore estate was in an uproar.Guests whispered to each other as their eyes kept drifting between Samuel and Rachel.Samuel's face instantly became dark as anger surged. He assumed I was the one making trouble again.Morgan was shocked at first, but then he got excited and cheered. "That's great! I've wanted Rachel to be my mom for a long time!"Rachel looked pleased as she basked in the joy. She failed to notice the strange looks around her at all.Samuel suddenly felt extremely uneasy for no apparent cause, and he pulled out his phone to call me, but my phone was already powered off.Rachel seized the moment when she saw that and said, "Samuel, Cindy has really gone too far! She humiliated you in public… Doesn't she realize this isn't the place and time for this?"Samuel's unease turned into anger. He decided to leave me hanging for a bit because of how far I had gone this time. He wanted to wait for me to come back and admit that what I had done was wrong.He force

Seeing how her pretense was useless now, Rachel dropped the act and stopped crying. Her face twisted with hatred as she got up slowly from the floor and wiped her tears away, her eyes turning cold.She walked straight toward Samuel, her voice becoming wild. "That's right! I cheated! So what?!"Rachel laughed with madness in her voice, ringing through the empty ward. "You think your brother was some great man? He was stiff and boring. He knew nothing but work! Being with him felt like living as a widow! Why couldn't I find a man who gives me excitement and happiness?"She pointed at Samuel's chest, her eyes full of contempt. "And you, Samuel. Don't act so noble. You said you've loved me for more than a decade, but what did you do? You still married Cindy."Do you deny ever sleeping with her in those ten years? Do you deny ever enjoying everything she gave you? All of you Moores are the same! Selfish! Hypocrites!"You think I don't know why you married her? It's because her father c

My words were a sharp blade as they stripped away his last pretense and all his excuses. Samuel's face went pale. He wanted to argue with me, but nothing came out. He thought that once Rachel was gone, we could go back to the way things were. He did not understand that once something was broken, it stayed broken."Mom..." Morgan approached me, crying as he reached for my hand. "I really know what I did was wrong now... I don't want Rachel anymore… I only want you..."I stepped back and avoided his touch."Morgan, you have to remember this, too." I looked at him and spoke softly. "Our blood ties do not give you the right to hurt me. I already gave you a lot of chances. Now, it's too late."Samuel tried to come closer, but one cold look from me stopped him. "Keep harassing me, and I'll call the police."I slammed the door shut behind me, cutting their crying and pleading off completely. However, they refused to leave as they waited outside my workshop.One day.Two days.Three