Three o’clock in the morning.
A siren blared from the villa's black irony gate.
Laura Silver clutched her pregnancy report with a mixture of glee and worry.
She had been married to Sid Carmen for a year, and they had never make love, except once. Sid Carmen told her that it was clear from her pre-marital check-up that she was infertile.
In Sid Carmen's words, why do we need to do it if she’s infertile.
Laura Silver couldn't understand why, if he didn't love her, he helped her when her company was going bankrupt. And tell everyone in J City that Laura Silver is the future Mrs. Carmen!
The door was violently pushed open.
Laura Silver got up from the sofa and tried to help Sid Carmen with a slight delight, but was shocked to the spot by his sharp eyes.
The warm light cast Sid Carmen's yellow eyes, his thin lips drawing sarcasm, and the air was heavy with the smell of alcohol.
"Have you rubbed the spirit tablet today?" "He asked coldly, not trying to hide the annoyance in his eyes.
"Well, I've been doing it every day as you asked..." Laura Silver lowered her head slightly and her voice was a little low. Her joy was completely restored by his cold words. The B ultrasound sheet in her hand was also unconsciously put behind her.
"Knee down and make a kowtow." Sid Carmen said.
Laura Silver thought she had heard something wrong and asked again with confirmation, "What?"
"I told you to kowtow! Sid Carmen's voice rose a few notches, and a cold streak rolled sharper and sharper in his eyes.
He saw Laura standing still, without a trace of pity to hold her wrist, forcefully pulled Laura to the center of the living room where the tablet is placed.
"On your knees!”
Laura has been married to Sid's family for a year, but she doesn't know what the name 'Anna' has to do with Sid.
Even the servants were afraid to mention it, as if it was a taboo subject in Carmen's house.
Sid Carmen won't let anyone near the tablet, except Laura Silver.
At Sid Carmen's request, she has been responsible for wiping the tablet every day since she got married.
At his wrist, she felt the pain of broken bones.
Laura Silver, tears in her eyes, tried to pull her hand away. But the more she moved, the stronger he became.
"It hurts, let go of me..."
"Let go? Ha ha." Sid Carmen looks like he just heard the biggest joke! Suddenly he looked at her coldly, pinched her under the chin, and looked her in the eye. "Don't be silly! Laura Silver, I'm trying to atone for your SINS!"
"Atone?" Laura Silver looked at him in surprise.
What on earth had she done wrong!
Why does she need to atone?
"Dr. Silver, you may not remember, but a year ago, you had an operation. Our Carmen family already ordered you not to operate on her, and you did it anyway! Do you know she's carrying my baby!! Do you realize that you have killed the woman I love and my child?"
Laura Silver's body gave way and she collapsed to the ground.
A year ago?
If you think about it, the Silver’s misfortune seems to have started after that operation. From a precipitous decline to being acquired by Carmen's family, she somehow became his wife... Consider very fear, all of which, as are arranged...... have a line drawing she walked up to now.
Well, what about that night? What about the night Sid Carmen got drunk and had sex with her?
What about that "I love you" he whispered to her in her ear?
Laura Silver's mind went blank and a mist rose from her eyes. Her lonely figure was being controlled by Sid Carmen and made a kowtow to the tablet.
Canthus tears in her eyes, didn’t fall down anyway.
She was unconscious, Sid Carmen's fingers following her movements, and all that was left in her pupils was the word 'Anna' engraved on the red-brown tablet.
Originally, he was devoting his mind to marry himself, but in retaliation...
......
She really wanted to ask Sid, had he not loved her at all in all this time?
She was about to say it, but Sid Carmen's icy face kept her thousands of miles away.
Yeah, why would he do that to her if he loved her?
"Is one year of revenge enough?" She asked.
Sid Carmen's movements stopped and he looked down at her for a few seconds. Those eyes have spirit, but actually lost all the vitality at the moment.
In his mind, however, he could see Anna's supplication.
"Sid, save our children... Save him..."
It took Sid several years to expand the scale of the company and become A commercial myth of A City and what every man dreams to be. He had lost his beloved woman and child far away for ever and ever...
He was blinded by the fury of his heart and the strength of the wine.
"Not enough! A lifetime is not enough!" Sid Carmen spoke with an unending rage. With a flash of fierceness in his eyes and his back teeth, he grabbed Laura Silver and pushed her out of the villa!
Outside the villa, heavy rain hit the city.
Because the rain is too big, the ground of the slate road has already gathered into a shallow river.
Just a few seconds out, Laura's dress is already completely battered.
Cold raindrops hit violently against her skin... She gently rubbed his stomach, with her eyes slightly lax, "baby, don't blame mommy. I also want to give you a happy family, but I'm afraid, your birth will make him hate me more..."
She clenched her hands slowly into a fist, as if making a decision, and then she stood up and deliberately rolled her belly down against the steps that led her in...
In a daze, she heard someone call out, "Help! Mrs. Carmen has fainted!"
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Wake up again, was already a day later.
In the cold hospital room, the disinfectant was thick and choking.
Laura Silver opened her eyes slightly. Her tired body had lost all support.
"Madam, are you awake?"
Laura Silver said "yes" softly to Wanda.
Her hands, hidden under the covers, stroked her belly. She wanted to ask, "How is my child?" But she finally lost her courage.
The water mist in her eyes rose slowly and filled her eyes.
"I'm going to call Mr Carmen." Wanda turned her back and dialed in an anxious voice.
Laura didn't stop or make a sound. She was as quiet as a dead man, looking at the ceiling and reflecting on the year.
As the minutes ticked by, Wanda's voice trembled slightly from her ear: "Madam, Mr Carmen says... not to disturb him until you're dead."
"Oh." Laura could not help but let out a cold snort.
She had already given up her feeling and expectations. Then she would not be hurt anymore.
She should have guessed the result.
Laura Silver slowly closed her eyes. Before her tears melted, she received a call from her best friend Chloe: "Laura, hurry back home, something happened at home!"
"What's the matter? " Laura's voice was a little tired, but her anxiety was not obvious.
Had not all that had happened in her house already gone out since her father married that woman? What else could it be?
"Your stepmother has taken a lot of sleeping pills and is going to kill herself!" Chloe's anxiety increased obviously, but Laura ignored it.
She was about to leave her ear, but heard Chloe say, "Your villa has been sealed, all the valuable were pressured to the court...... Your father's been in hospital for irritation..."
