After Dorothy finished drinking water, she paused for a long time before she returned the empty cup to Credence. She closed her eyes slowly and said in a hoarse voice, “Credence, you can leave now. I don’t want to see you right now.”
Once she saw him, she would be reminded of how he ignored her unwillingness and forcefully tried to send her and Belle away. She would think of how she tripped over a suitcase and landed on her abdomen. She had almost lost her child because of that.
If it weren’t for God’s blessing, both her and the child in her womb might not be able to survive this time. If that happened, not even the terminally ill Belle would be able to survive.
When she looked at the man who had almost indirectly taken her life, she was really scared and disappointed in him.
In the end, she was still too silly. She mistook Credence’s occasional gentleness as a sign that he really loved her, and she was slapped in the face by that. That was why she felt so bitter and painful.
Dorothy suppressed the sorrow at the bottom of her heart and slowly turned her pale face towards the wall, leaving only the back of her head for Credence to see.
Credence’s heart was empty when he saw that she did not hesitate to express her dissatisfaction and rejection towards him. He could not describe the feelings he felt right now. There was guilt, regret, sadness, and melancholy, but there was no joy in his heart.
He licked his lips, and all kinds of complicated emotions welled up in his eyes. He stared at side profile and said bitterly, “Dorothy, I have done a lot of things to hurt you these years. I’m really sorry! You can beat me or even stab me with a knife, but please don’t drive me away!”
“You are my woman, the only wife I will ever acknowledge in my life. I will never leave you, nor will I ever hand you over to another man.”
“Credence, you don’t love me, yet you don’t want to let me go? Why?”
Credence did not know which part of his words poked at Dorothy’s heavily scarred heart. She slowly turned around, and the moment her gaze met Credence’s, a smile slowly formed on her face, as well as tears.
She had suffered the pain of miscarriage from him once, and she almost experienced it for the second time. This alone was enough for her to get the gist of everything!
He did not love her. No matter what she did, no matter how much she did for him or how much she listened to him, the only thing she would get was his occasional care and pity, and not the fair treatment of love that she longed so much for.
Why did she fall for this man so badly back when she was young?
Back when she was 16, she was anxious and helpless when she was locked in a room with a group of disgusting middle-aged men. However, she was rescued by him. When she was rescued, she had engraved his smile, his voice, and his name deeply in her heart.
Whenever she had self-study sessions, she would secretly write his name in her diary for thousands upon thousands of times. She would write it, erase it, and rewrite and erase it over and over again.
She secretly bought financial newspapers and carefully cut out his photos and placed them between pages of her books. Every time she saw him, her heart would tremble with joy.
She secretly thought of him as her idol. She had endured the insults and abuse from Rosalie and her family, just so they’d allow her to continue studying because of her obedience. She wanted to strive hard to get into the top school in the country. After that, she would work in his company as a small staff, just to get closer to him.
The two of them were basically from two different worlds. They were like a whole galaxy apart. When she was 16, she only took him as someone who was out of her reach, a man that she could only dream of.
However, everything changed during Rosalie’s birthday party.
No one knew what happened. Rosalie was supposed to be his fiancée, and he had no objections to that. However, for some reason, she ended up on his bed. Credence’s father even broke through the door and forced them to get married.
Although she knew that the person he liked was Rosalie, and he marrying her was only because of his father’s pressure, she was still very happy. She happily went through the steps and processes of getting married with him happily.
Yes, how could she not be ecstatic about that?
With a wedding and a marriage certificate, she had trapped this person who had been in her heart ever since she was sixteen to herself.
But in those four-year marriage of hers, she was thoroughly defeated. She lost to the cruel fact that he did not love her.
The memories slashed Dorothy’s heart like knives, and it hurt so much that her heart was completely broken.
After a short breath, a sharp pain came from the cut in her abdomen she got from the operation. It made Dorothy frown in pain. She looked at Credence calmly, and sighed bitterly. “Credence, what you feel for me is not love, just possessiveness. Let me go, and let yourself go.”
“You are not in good spirits, and your mood is not stable enough. We will talk about it after you recover.”
Credence frowned. When he saw the mocking look on her face due to his words, there was a stinging pain in his eyes. He closed his eyes violently and opened them once more. He slowly sat down on a sofa beside the bed and stretched out his hands to hold her cold hand. He said in a deep voice, “Don’t think too much. I know all too well what kind of feelings I have for you! You must be tired, take a rest. I won’t go anywhere these days. I will stay here with you and we will recover together.”
Dorothy struggled to withdraw her hand, but her hand was still tightly held by him. She could not move, thus she allowed it to be. She endured the pain she felt and closed her dull eyes.
After an unknown period of time, her consciousness gradually sank into murky chaos. With that, she unconsciously fell asleep.
In a trance, Dorothy seemed to hear the creaking of someone opening the door. That person seemed to be Benjamin, or it could be anyone else. The person rushed in in a hurry. “Mr. Scott, Melanie went to the company. She said that she will continue to wait for you in the office until you show up.”
Melanie, Melanie again. This woman was really everywhere!
As Dorothy was half-asleep, she suddenly frowned, and her body trembled. She subconsciously wanted to grab hold of that man’s hand. However, the man, whose hands were still grabbing on to her a little while ago, strongly and firmly released her.
After that, the sound of footsteps got more and more disorderly, and it gradually faded away. In the end, she could no longer hear anything, and only silence remained.
He was always like this. Just when she naively believed that he had really fallen in love with her, he would throw her back into the dark abyss. He wasn’t even willing to give her the illusion of happiness.
She should have long gotten used to his indifference, shouldn’t she?
This was not the first time he had left her for another woman, and it definitely wouldn’t be the last time either!
The corners of Dorothy’s mouth lifted, forming a beautiful yet sad smile. Tears of pain were flowing out of her eyes, until suddenly, an angry shout could be heard coming from outside the ward.