No Place for Me in This Marriage のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 1 - チャプター 9

My eyes went as wide as dinner plates. It was as though my blood had turned into ice at that very moment.After slumping to the floor, I clutched my head and did my best to jog my memory about the day Edwin and I had supposedly registered our marriage. I needed to know what actually happened that day.But for some reason, I couldn't recall anything related to that day. All I remembered was that I had drunk a glass of milk that Edwin had handed over to me on the night before the marriage registration. When I stirred awake afterward, I was already clutching a marriage certificate.At that time, I was delighted, so I didn't take a good look at the certificate. Now that I did, I finally realized that it didn't sport an official seal.As I stared at the marriage certificate, which had tricked me for the past five years, I realized that I was starting to falter. If the marriage I had risked my life just to secure was a scam from the start, then why did I still suffer from endless pain

My mind buzzed loudly at the conversation.I dialed Edwin's number right away, yet all I could hear was Jenna's tinkling laughter."If you want to see Andy's remains again, you'd better get your ass to the hospital as soon as you can, Reyna. If you're late even by a second, I'll flush them down the toilet."I dared not waste any time. Soon, I reached the hospital in record time.As soon as I opened the door to Jenna's ward, I saw Edwin angrily hurl his phone at me."Reyna Shepherd! Look at what you've done!"The phone collided against my forehead, leaving me with a fresh wound. Even though Edwin spotted the blood trickling down my face, he averted his gaze stiffly. All that was left in his eyes was sympathy and affection for his darling Jenna.At the moment, Jenna was crying so much that her eyes were all red and puffy. When she saw me, she shrieked at the top of her lungs and sank to her knees in front of me, her hands still clutching her head in despair."I'm so sorry, Reyna!

Andy Reeves was the unborn child whom I had miscarried when I caught Edwin cheating on me. If he had lived and grown up safely, he'd be two years old right now.Edwin's hands began trembling uncontrollably. He could feel blood rising in his throat, too. But still, he suppressed all of his emotions and began coaxing me gently.He said, "Yes, yes. You're Andy. I… I got too anxious just now, so I called you by the wrong name."Mom began tearing up immediately. Her back grew hunched at that moment, as though she had aged ten years in just a second.She kept her voice low, her expression one of heartbreak."Rey, Andy has been dead for two years. You can't just trap yourself in the past forever."Her words were like a trigger for me that made me freeze up. Instantly, I clutched my head and began rolling around on my bed in pain. Soon, cold sweat rained down my forehead.As I stared at the fruit knife on the nightstand, I began mumbling under my breath like a lunatic."Andy is dead… I

But it was too late.Jenna cackled like a madwoman while staring me in the eye. "The truth is, there was still hope for your child when you were sent to the hospital. But Mom claimed that you'd fight for everything with me if you ever had a child of your own, so she taught me to fake my illness just so I could lure Edwin away from you."By the time he remembered your plight and wanted to sign the surgical consent form, your child had already died in your womb."The atmosphere in the ward became awfully silent. Both Mom and Edwin froze, no longer having the courage to even glance at me.Meanwhile, Jenna kept staring at me unblinkingly. I knew that she was waiting for me to lose my marbles. She wanted me to revert to the hysterical lunatic so that she could continue acting like the kind-hearted victim who was a pushover in the eyes of the others.But this time, she'd be disappointed by the outcome.I just rubbed my ears in irritation before nuzzling into Edwin's arms, my expression