All Chapters of I Dumped My Ungrateful Husband and Stepson: Chapter 1 - Chapter 8

8 Chapters

Chapter 1

I tilted my head up and gazed into Charles Zimmer’s eyes as he plotted schemes against me. In the other timeline, Charles and Jacob Zimmer had abandoned me and humiliated me. I had felt so much resentment for that.I did not nod shyly as I did the last time. Instead, I sneered.“I don’t intend to cling to someone beyond my station. I can’t be a townsperson either, let alone be someone’s stepmom. I’m not worthy of it.” As if someone had rained on his parade, Charles instantly stopped smiling. I had always obeyed him, and he probably never anticipated such words from me. He patiently cleared his throat and acted like a superior college student again.“Have you thought it through, Sophia? You’ll be a townsperson if you move to North City with me. I’m going to college, so I’ll have a prosperous future. Of course, you won’t end up suffering with me.”I could not stop sneering inwardly.“Stop making yourself sound so great. You just want a free servant to serve you and your kid. T

Chapter 2

However, in the other timeline, I had been fooled.I thought that my aunt had wanted to ruin my romance. Hence, I did not hesitate to cut myself off from her family just to marry Charles. Later, the Zimmer Family drove me out. I was homeless.My aunt got very ill. I heard from someone that she wanted to bid me goodbye. But I was too ashamed to meet her and did not even attend her funeral. “Aunt, I won’t marry him. I won’t be a stepmom… I’ll never think of marrying Charles again. I won’t marry anyone that you disapprove of!”I cried piteously. While hugging me, my aunt felt sorry for me and kept patting my back. “What’s the matter with you? Did Charles bully you?” Ben Garcia and Fiona Garcia, my nephew and niece, were doing homework in the house. When they heard the noise, they ran out. Indignation gripped them when they saw how hard I was crying. “Stop crying, Aunt Sophia! We’ll demand an explanation from him now!”They tried to seek justice for me, which warmed and sadde

Chapter 3

In a few words, Charles had easily portrayed me as a greedy woman. It sounded like I had performed some shameless acts with him, and I was refusing to take responsibility after.People started gossiping about me in a louder tone. “Sophia, Charles is the most promising young man around here. He’s going to move up in the world. Why are you this picky?”“Just stop making a scene. It’s already a stroke of luck to marry someone so capable.” “If you keep making such a scene, no one would want to marry you.”Charles appeared to be smug. In front of everyone, he gave me a promise again. “Trust me, Sophia. If you marry me, I’ll make sure you’ll enjoy a good life.”He was confident of making me yield. After all, a woman’s reputation was everything.I looked at him and suddenly burst out laughing. “Fine. Since you two insist on slandering me, I don’t mind going to the police station with you now. Let’s see how they handle a case of defamation and harassment. I’m nobody. At most, I’

Chapter 4

When Charles’ family had spent every penny I had, they ended up scolding or beating me. His family was cruel and wicked. At the thought of that, I grew so furious that my chest hurt. Suddenly, I recalled the thirty dollars that Charles had taken from me the previous week. I clenched my fists and decided to reclaim them.Driven mad by resentment, I rushed to his house.The sky was getting dark, and there was hardly anyone on the quiet road. When I was near his house, I suddenly heard some strange birds chirping. It was piercing and short, and it did not at all sound like the birds in the forest. I paused and saw a dark figure looking around the door of Charles’ house.It was Summer Smith, a widow. Before long, someone opened the shabby wooden door of Charles’ house with a creak. I quickly hid in the shadow of a nearby locust tree.Charles and Summer were seven to eight steps apart as they left the house before walking toward the fields on the outskirts of town.I foll

Chapter 5

A shriek tore through the night’s stillness.“Where is it?”“Where did it happen?”Neighbors rushed from their homes in alarm.Gasping for breath, I pointed toward the pitch-black cornfield. “I saw someone sneaking in there!”A few men grabbed whatever tools were at hand.Inside the cornfield, Charles and Summer broke out in a cold sweat at the shouts.By the time they scrambled to pull their clothes back on, they realized their pants were gone.Soon, the villagers’ angry cries morphed into a different kind of uproar.“Well, I’ll be darned! A pair of lovebirds!”“Folk, come look at them! The Zimmer boy, the college kid, and Summer are fooling around in the cornfield!”Gossip, it turned out, was far more exciting than catching a thief.In no time, the cornfield was surrounded by a wall of onlookers.Charles and Summer, stripped bare from the waist down, stood there half-naked, and covering one part of themselves only exposed another.Charles’ face flushed a deep, mortified

Chapter 6

He threw himself at my legs. His skinny arms wrapped them tight like vines.“Miss Clark, why are you being like this? You never used to be like this!”He looked up at me, his little face wet with tears.“You’re the only one Dad and I care about, Miss Clark! Will you please be my mom, Miss Clark? I don’t want Summer.”I lowered my head and looked at his face, which was filled with a hurt expression. I felt a flicker of impatience. “I’m hardly fit to be your mother,” I said flatly.“After all, you’d want someone cultured and pretty, wouldn’t you? I’m nothing special.”Jacob had not expected such coldness from me. He was stunned. His wide eyes filled with stunned confusion.“Miss Clark, what happened to you?”I pried his hands off me. Jacob let his body drop dramatically to the dirt.“Ow!”He grabbed his knee and lifted his palm toward me. There was a tiny scrape on it.“It hurts so much, Miss Clark!”Tears streamed down his face as he sobbed pitifully.I watched him cold

Chapter 7

“You’re calling me an embarrassment? But you sneaking around with your ex-wife isn’t? If you don’t open your mouth and explain yourself to me clearly, I swear I’ll march right over to Ruby’s man and tell him myself! We’ll see who’s more embarrassed then!” Her words struck a nerve.He raised his hand and slapped Summer.“You vicious witch! You’re poison!”Summer staggered, stunned for a second, then came back with a fury. She swung her hand back and delivered a hard slap that sent Charles stumbling. “I’m vicious? I’m not half the snake you are, you two-timing louse!”Like a lioness unleashed, she pummeled Charles with her fists. Years of farm work had made Summer strong, while Charles, the bookish intellectual, was no match for her. After a few wild swings, he was pinned flat to the dirt. He could only curl up and take the beating.The villagers watching from the sidelines let out mocking laughs and jeers.“Stop it, you madwoman!” Charles cursed from his undignified posi

Chapter 8

My expression hardened. “I used to be way too easygoing. That’s how people like you learned you could walk all over me. I’m not like that anymore.”He met my cold, detached gaze. The hope in his eyes flickered out.The days slipped by. Before I knew it, the college entrance exams were suddenly upon us.On the morning of the test, my uncle’s family rallied together. They had even hired a vehicle to give me a proper, bustling send-off to the examination hall.I had just climbed down when a familiar, shrill argument pierced the air.Not far off, Summer was dragging a child by the arm. She shoved him toward a well-dressed woman.“Ruby, are you going to take responsibility for your son or not? You don’t pay a cent, you never visit, and you have the gall to show up here for an exam?The boy being pushed around was Jacob.He was thinner and tanner than the last time I had seen him. His clothes were filthy and torn, like a little beggar. His eyes, which were full of yearning hope, we

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