Chapter 2
William stared at me.
He had expected me to cry, to beg, to throw a fit–like I always had in the past.
Once I finished signing, I stood up and began packing my things, moving slowly.
I pulled my suitcase toward the door, William couldn’t hold back any longer.
“Lucy, if you ever need anything, don’t hesitate to call me.”
I paused, then let out a cold laugh.
“No need,” I said. “Since we’re divorced, there should be a proper end. Let’s not keep in touch. After all, you’re marrying Sura soon,
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and it wouldn’t be fair to her.”
With that, I turned my back on what had once been “home” stepping out of the door for the last time.
At the hospital
The car sped through the night, and I headed straight for the hospital, lying down on the cold examination table.
The overhead lights were glaring, and the doctor’s voice buzzed in my ears.
“Are you ready?”
I closed my eyes. “Do it.”
Just as the doctor began to push the instruments into position, my phone lit up.
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We lived on cheap instant noodles, and in the dead of night, I would patch up his gunshot wounds.
On the day we married, he had nothing. Not even a ring to give me. We sat in a fast food joint on the corner of the street, sharing a single burger. He held my hand, his voice serious.
“Lucy, wait for me. One day, when I make something of myself, I’ll give you everything -everything you deserve.”
Foolishly, I believed him.
But in the end, the person he made good on that promise to wasn’t me–it was Sura.
Because Sura had “saved him,” he felt indebted to her. He was willing to marry her, even if it meant abandoning everything we
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