“Hmm, you are ridiculously naïve. This is just your idea, you think your husband would leave me alone? He hated my guts, desperate to eat me alive!”
“Don’t worry, I promise to you, as long as you let me go, we can talk about it later…”
Bella sobbed, “For me, there is nothing more important than my children, and for my husband, nothing matters more than me and my children. I’d sacrifice everything to protect my children. And you deserted Louis long ago. He is such a good son, even though you treat him like this, he never hates you and even suffers sleepless nights these days. For a son like him, you don’t feel sorry to him as a mother?”
Hearing Bella’s words, Celeste got into thinking, she thought out loud, “Others see me as an unqualified mother. Even though I want to treat him nicely, some might think that I don’t mean it…”
“You are responsible for everything happening in your life. It is hypocritical that you live happily when people see you in good light and just get by when others see you in a negative light. The weight of trust determines the weight of a relationship. You have to build a good relationship with your son before others believe that you truly love your son.”
Celeste was even more confused. Her hands let go subconsciously. Bella felt relieved. While Celeste lowered her guard, Bella moved towards the door and kept saying, “You hate my father-in-law, but he has died already. Why do you have to hold grudge against someone who has died? What’s the matter you go bankrupt? The only thing that can’t be measured by money except for romantic love is the family’s love. What matters most is staying with family…”
A hard horn of cars sounded awkwardly at this time. It was like a bomb blasting in the air that woke up Celeste who had almost convinced by Bella.
Celeste looked ferocious again, rushing to Bella with her red eyes, “You want to distract me，it’s not that easy! I don’t want to keep living in this world, but before I die, you have to die before me, so I can remove the shame in my life!”
Bella didn’t realize that Celeste kept being stubborn after she talked so much. Also irritated, Bella said ironically, “You are so pathetic, living your life just for a man. Deserted by a man when you were young and disregarded your son’s feelings for a man when you are old. Don’t you find yourself pathetic? A woman who leads a life like yours should be dead.”
Celeste was furious at Bella’s words but later miraculously regained her composure. She sneered, “Don’t you find yourself pathetic? You think you are better than me? Let me tell you a secret, do you know how did your father-in-law die?”
Bella asked in a low voice, “How?”
“He was exasperated to death because of me, because I told him an unacceptable truth that I … once slept with his son, hahaha.”
She let out a frightening laugh. And Bella was tremendously shocked and asked reflexively, “What…What did you say?”
“Didn’t understand? Ok, I’ll tell you more details. I told him that I had sex with his son on the night that his son was in a coma. He suffered sexual impotence later as he couldn’t accept it. The Jones-Sharp was doomed to have no offspring. That was what he got for betraying me. He slept with my sister and I slept with his son. Hahaha, what could be better revenge for him? Hahaha, he was actually shocked to death. And you, a self-righteous ass, you share the same man with me, I’m much older than you. Do you still find me pathetic? Hahaha…
“You are lying, liar. I don’t believe it, I don’t believe it…” Thinking about Kevin’s profound hatred for Celeste and the day that he was shivering for unknown reasons on the Hokkaido mountain, Bella’s legs went limp and she sat on the ground suddenly…”
Right at the time when her mind went blank, the glass door behind her was smashed violently with a bang. Kevin rushed to Bella with his bloodshot eyes, pressing her shoulders and asking, “Bella, how do you feel? Did she harm you?”
Bella was muddled. She couldn’t say a word regardless of how violently he shook her. Kevin’s heart was severely stabbed by the fear in her eyes. He choked on Celeste’s neck, speaking with his teeth gripped, “I’ve warned you, but since you don’t listen to me…”
He slowly drove Celeste to the border of hell.
“Kevin, don’t do that–”
Belle screamed to stop him but collapsed gently with darkness flashing by her eyes. With her last remaining consciousness, she heard Kevin called out her name and said to Celeste furiously, “I’ll come for you.”
When Bella woke up, she found herself lying in the hospital. She stared blankly at the snow-white ceiling, trying to recall what had happened before her coma. But no matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t remember anything.
Maybe she was just unwilling to remember something, not unable to remember it.
Her hand moved to her abdomen. Fortunately, her children were still there. They were her life.
With a creak, the door of the ward was pushed open. Kevin walked in and saw her already awake. He came forward and asked lovingly, “You are awake, is there anywhere that you feel uncomfortable?”
She shook her head mechanically and tried to prop herself up. Kevin helped her sit up and straightened her messy hair.
“How is she?”
Kevin’s eyes flashed with dismal. He knew the answer but still asked, “Who?”
“Celeste.”
“She is good.”
“You didn’t push her off?”
“If you hadn’t stopped me.”
Bella shook her head, “No, Kevin, never do that. I don’t want to be bothered with a lawsuit due to that woman, and I don’t want our hands to have her filthy blood…”
Kevin stared at her lovingly and replied to her after a pause, “Ok.”
He stood up, “The doctor said you need some rest. So take some rest and I’ll guard you at the outside.”
“Hold on.”
Bella grabbed his hand, trying to refrain from what she wanted to say but finally deciding to ask, “She said she had slept with you, is it true?”
Nobody knew that how much courage she took to ask it. She didn’t want to care about it, but she couldn’t help thinking about it. As Celeste’s words were like a poisonous thorn, sprouting in her heart already and eroding her viscera.
“Of course not. Don’t listen to that old woman’s nonsense.”
“Kevin, it’s ok. You don’t have to be afraid that I can’t take it and suffer the pain all alone. Even though I feel distressed, I will try to forget that. So tell me, is it true?”
Kevin pressed her shoulder and looked at her right into her eyes, speaking word by word, “Bella, you listen, I won’t lie to you. Celeste made that up. At first, I thought it was true and suffered in agony for a long time until tonight I finally confirm the truth. Freya was the only witness that night. She said from beginning to the end, no one ever stepped into my room except her. So all of it was made up by Celeste. She fabricated the thing just to get back at my father.”
“The last few times you met Freya were to confirm this with her, right?”
“Yes. At first, she wouldn’t tell me. You know she was the only witness. So before I figured out the truth, I didn’t want you to know. And even I myself couldn’t take that disgusting thing.”
Bella hugged him exhilaratingly and cried hard over his shoulder. “She lied to me, it’s really good to know that it isn’t true…”
“Yeah, it’s not true, so have some rest and don’t think about it anymore.”
Kevin tucked her in and slowly walked out.
Once the day dawned, Bella went home with Kevin. Her mother-in-law spent half an hour making sure that she was fine. Hearing that she was kidnapped by Celeste and almost died, Blanche turned to as pale as a wall.
“Bella, we’re running late. Let’s go.”
Bella who was sitting in the living room raised her head suddenly and found that Kevin brought her luggage downstairs.
“Where to go?”
“Vienna.”
Her beautiful eyebrows twisted together immediately. She even forgot that she would leave B City today to a faraway country.
“She has to go?”
Her mother-in-law asked what she wanted to ask.
“Mom, do you want what happened last night to happen again?”
Kevin retorted and Blanche was speechless.
Bella followed Kevin to the airport. Fifteen minutes away from boarding. She sat in the waiting room silently. Kevin went out. She didn’t know what he was doing. She was just looking at the tip of her shoes, staring at it blankly.
A moment later, Kevin came back and handed her a hot breakfast, “Have some breakfast. It’s your favorite soybean milk and fried buns.”
“I don’t want to have it.”
“You’re pregnant with two babies, how can you skip breakfast?”
Once mentioning the children, even if she didn’t want to eat it, Bella still took it and ate the plain bun.
“The plane to Austria will be leaving soon, please be ready to board …”
The boarding notification sounded in the hall. Bella couldn’t have more of the breakfast. She held Kevin’s neck, “Kevin, I don’t want to separate from you.”
Her tears can’t help dripping on Kevin’s neck. Kevin signed and cajoled her like a baby, “I knew you would be like this. Come on, let’s board together.”
She kept her eyes wide open and was confused about his words. Kevin waved the two tickets in his hand, “I got it just now. I’ll go there with you and come back when you adapt there.”