Bella’s face paled. Even though she had applied rouge, she couldn’t hide the pallor.
“I heard that you’ve been taking pills too. What a pity! How come someone can’t do what she wants when she’s also taking pills …”
Freya spoke sarcastically, cutting Bella to the quick. Bella’s heart ached but she still frankly fought back, ” The face is as important to a man as the Bark is to a tree. Do you know what you look like now? You’re like a whore proudly showing off how good she is after sleeping with a man!”
Freya splashed the half glass of red wine in front of her onto Bella’s face and laughed mockingly, “Didn’t you say not to have ambitions that I shouldn’t have? I’m not showing off my skills but I’m showing you my ambition, and now, you know what my real ambition is, right?”
Bella was furious. Her pride had been trampled to nothing by the woman in front of her. She pounced on Freya and grabbed her by the neck, growling hysterically, “I’ll strangle you to death!!!”
“You pinch. I’m telling you I’m pregnant with a boy. If you pinch me, you’ll cut off the family line alive of the Jones-Sharp family, and your in-laws won’t forgive you. Kevin won’t forgive you even more because it’s his child you’re strangling!”
Tears poured out of Bella’s eye. She slowly released the hand that was strangling Freya’s neck and turned towards the door of the compartment in depression. She wanted so much to hold on until the end, but now, it seemed like she couldn’t hold on a bit.
Her heart ached so bad.
“Stop!”
Freya strode forward to stop her, “Is that how you want to leave? So I just let you bully me for nothing.”
Snap-.
She slapped Bella’s face. Bella slowly looked up coldly at the woman in front of her but didn’t fight back, just silently walking away.
She felt weak all over and missed the power. The last bit of strength could only support her to walk out of the door of the club. If she used this last bit of strength to return that humiliating slap, how would she have to get out of this hellish place?
Her heart was broken and tired. She felt more tired than every other time she had ever been.
“If you don’t want my child to be born without a father, then stop shamelessly pestering Kevin!”
Freya rushed out and shouted at her frail back as a warning.
Bella didn’t know how she got home. She seemed to have been gone for a long time. The sun was still shining over her head when she came out of the clubhouse, but when she got home, it was already dark.
As she went upstairs gloomily, Kevin hadn’t returned yet. She sat on the sofa and kept crying.
Thud-.
Her mother-in-law’s voice came from outside the door, “Bella, are you there?”
She quickly wiped the tears from her eyes and stumbled over to the door, “Mom, what’s up …”
Blanche seemed to have something in her hand behind her back, and nodded with a twinkle in her eye, “Well, there’s something I’d like to discuss with you.”
“Come in.”
She closed the door and asked her mother-in-law, “What is it?”
Blanche struggled for a moment and said guiltily, “It’s about Freya.”
Bella got a deadly headache. At this point, even hearing that woman’s name made her feel worse than dead.
“Freya is carrying a boy in her belly. As you know, that child is really important to our family. We don’t like her at all and I also know it’s outrageous to say such things to you. But I still want to ask you. Can you temporarily divorce Kevin? After a year when Freya gives birth to the child, I will definitely find a way for you to marry each other again …”
Bella looked up woodenly at her mother-in-law in disbelief. She couldn’t believe that these words came from her loving mother-in-law’s mouth.
“Bella, I’m sorry. I won’t let you be aggrieved like this in any way until it’s absolutely necessary. Mom assures you that after a year, I will definitely let you return to Kevin’s side, and no one will break you up!”
Blanche turned her hand behind her back and said guiltily, “This is the divorce agreement. I hope you can convince Kevin to sign it. There is absolutely no way your father-in-law and I can get him to divorce you. Please, I’m begging you, okay?”
Bella’s gaze had slowly changed from shock to indifference as she stared indifferently at the elderly kind man in front of her, finally seeing the cruelty of reality.
“In your eyes, is the continuation of the family line really that important?”
Blanche shed tears, “I know you are in pain, but please understand the helplessness of our family. Your father-in-law and I are already old, and may pass away someday. If we die without being able to hold a grandson, how are we going to face the Jones-Sharp family’s ancestors after we die? This favored family business is an empire that Kevin’s grandfather worked hard to build. We can’t have a successor …”
Bella took a deep breath and said tearfully, “Okay, let me think about it.”
“Can’t you promise me right now? Because … “Blanche was sobbing, “Freya called this afternoon if you and Kevin were not divorced by tomorrow, she would have an abortion … ”
Bella laughed mockingly, but couldn’t stop crying, must she be pushed to the edge like this? Tomorrow … Well …
Blanche knelt in front of her daughter-in-law and cried hoarsely, “Bella, I’m sorry. I’m really sorry. If you promise, your father-in-law and I will repay your kindness in our next life …”
“Don’t be like that. I will consider it solemnly.”
Bella bent down to help her mother-in-law up, but Blanche stubbornly said, “I won’t get up until you promise me, and I’m sad and can’t live …”
Divorce … for one year …
Bella knew better than anyone else how the divorce was a blow to Kevin. In front of her eyes was Kevin’s careful eyes every time he faced her. In her ears were Kevin’s words begging her to insist. and in her eyes, her tears ran dry but she couldn’t stop weeping.
“Bella, please … I plead …”
Her mother-in-law was still crying bitterly and pleading with her, and she was like a dying leaf, shaken to the ground. She felt depleted and empty once again and suddenly roared hysterically, “Yes, I promise you all. I promise you all. I don’t want anything!”
With a bang, she fell to the ground and let out a tearing cry. Her heart was finally completely dead, and she was also completely desperate for this marriage.
She cried for a long time before she came to her senses from her grief, took out a pen, and signed her name on the divorce papers.
“You and your father-in-law are both selfish people, and I hope you’ve made the right choice.”
She looked coldly at her mother-in-law, “Get out, I’m tired.”
“I’m sorry, Bella. I’m sorry. Don’t worry. I’ll give it all back to you in less than a year …”
“No, I’m tired of this life. If I leave, I won’t come back.”
Before Blanche could react, she had already been pushed out of the room. Bella closed the door and fell to the floor again, shedding tears.
Kevin went to a dinner party and returned home at one in the morning. He gently entered the room, afraid of waking up Bella, but was surprised to find that Bella did not fall asleep but sat on the sofa like a statue.
His mind flashed a hint of a bad premonition. He hurriedly turned on the lights, but after seeing the luggage placed at the feet of Bella, rushed over and asked, “Bella, what are you doing?”
“Let’s divorce.”
Bella looked straight ahead with a blank expression, not looking into his eyes. Her face was pale as a sheet of white paper, and Kevin pressed her shoulders in panic, “What nonsense are you talking about again?!”
“This time it’s true.”
She extended her hand and handed the divorce agreement placed on the coffee table to him, “I’ve already signed it.”
Kevin shocked slowly looked down at the divorce agreement, and his hands that pressed on her shoulders trembled and loosened, “Why? Did you agreed to face up to with me …”
“I have to live for myself once in a lifetime. I no longer want to live begrudgingly like this.”
She stood up, picked up the suitcase by her feet, and woodenly walked out the door, but was embraced by Kevin from behind, “Don’t, Bella, I beg you, don’t leave me. I beg you. I’ll do whatever you want me to do. Don’t leave me …”
An unyielding and tall man suddenly cried like a child when he saw that his lover was about to leave him …
Bella heard Kevin’s helpless cries and her heart was torn into pieces. It was an extinguishing pain, just like a living man suddenly torn in half couldn’t live.
With the last bit of strength she had left in her body, she said wearily, “Marriage is not just about loving each other. I’m really tired, so let me go.”
Pulling his hand away, she walked forward firmly, and Kevin suddenly growled, “If you leave, don’t ever come back!!!”
Bella stopped, closed her eyes and shed the last tears, and finally didn’t look back, determined to walk away …
She was out of his life, his world, and her black destiny cursed by the goddess Eris.