My Final Gift: A Heart for My Betrayer のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 1 - チャプター 9

I was sprawled on the bed, feeling as though every bone in my body had been shattered. The nurse brought my baby, Avery Sinclair, over to give me a quick look. He was a boy with a wrinkled little face and a loud, piercing cry. Excusing myself to use the restroom, I endured the searing pain coursing through my body and made my way toward the restroom at the end of the corridor. It was close to my sister-in-law, Verna Bloom's, hospital room.Muffled conversation leaked through the wall. I could make out my husband, Craig Sinclair's, voice, and he sounded absolutely ecstatic. "Look, Vern. He has a birthmark on his shoulder that's exactly like mine!"Verna's voice was faint, but she sounded equally delighted. "It's all your fault! I was so close to my due date, yet you just couldn't keep your hands to yourself yesterday... and now you've caused me to go into labor early." Craig chuckled. "I know, I know. It's my fault. But this works out in our favor. It saves us the trouble of dra

Avery wailed at the top of his lungs from the rough treatment. His cries felt like a knife gouging out my heart. I lunged forward to snatch him back, but Craig kicked me squarely in the abdomen. My freshly stitched wound tore open instantly, and a wave of searing pain shot through my entire body. I curled into a fetal position on the floor, unable to make a sound.Craig held Avery in his arms and looked down at me coldly. His expression was utterly livid as he demanded, "Have you been seeing someone behind my back, Althea? Whose bastard child is this?" Drenched in cold sweat from the excruciating pain, I grit my teeth and refused to answer him.My silence infuriated him. He scoffed before shifting his gaze toward Lyle, who had fainted on the floor. "So, you're not going to answer me, huh? In that case, you must've had an affair with this caregiver!" He handed Avery to Verna and gestured to his bodyguards. "Castrate him.""Don't you dare!" I tried to push myself off the ground,

Craig whirled around in shock. Uncle Winston stood at the entrance with a grim face, an intimidating chill radiating from his entire body. Behind him were members of my family and dozens of towering, broad-shouldered bodyguards who instantly flooded the entire operating room, gridlocking it. The doctors and bodyguards present in the room were paralyzed with fear. The surgeon's hand trembled so violently that the scalpel slipped from his fingers, clattering loudly onto the tile floor. Craig's expression changed drastically. "Uncle Winston? What are you—"Uncle Winston stormed over to the operating table and immediately spotted me, drenched in blood and tied down. He whipped his head around and noticed Mom kneeling on the floor, half her face swollen, blood trickling from the corner of her mouth. His pupils contracted sharply, and he was absolutely livid. "Get a doctor in here, now!""Thea…" Uncle Winston carefully untied the restraints on my limbs. He scooped me up into his arms a

The blood drained from Verna's face as she watched Craig throw her under the bus just to save his own skin. Like a madwoman, she lunged forward, grabbed Craig's clothes, and wailed, "Craig, you liar! You scumbag! How dare you pin everything on me? Who was the one who wouldn't leave me alone back then? Who swore they would cherish me for the rest of their life? "It was your idea to switch the babies. You were the one who killed Althea's child! How can you turn around and frame me now?""Shut the fuck up!" Craig roared, looking up with murderous eyes. He raised his hand and slapped Verna brutally across the face. "If you weren't such a shameless whore, I wouldn't be in this mess right now! This is all your fault!"Verna was knocked flat onto the ground, blood instantly trickling from her split lip. Clutching her cheek, she took in Craig's cold, heartless expression. The resentment she had bottled up for years completely exploded. With absolutely nothing left to lose, she decided to

Craig and Verna's scandal went viral after full media coverage, dominating trending lists across all platforms. The public utterly detested Craig for being ungrateful, bigamous, for murdering his own child, and for plotting against his family. He became the poster boy for hypocritical, toxic men everywhere. Whenever strangers mentioned him, they did so with clenched teeth and undisguised disgust. On the day of the public trial, the gallery was packed to the brim. Countless people gathered outside the courthouse, demanding that Craig be punished to the fullest extent of the law. All the evidence was conclusive—the nurse's testimony, the couple's marriage certificate, and Verna's own confession—forming a complete chain of evidence. Craig had no way to defend himself and was ultimately sentenced to death. As his accomplice, Verna was sentenced to life imprisonment and deprived of her political rights for life. After the verdict was delivered, Craig was escorted by the bailiffs, re