Isaac rushed away quickly, even forgetting to shut the hospital room door.
At that moment, two young nurses walked past. Seeing Isaac’s face, they immediately spoke out.
“Did you see? It is that man from a moment ago. Just because the woman in the SVIP private room on the sixth floor gets a small burn on her skin and is scared of pain and marks and feels upset, he goes to look for human skin for a transplant.”
“So loving. I hear that in two days he also holds a big fireworks show for that girl…”
The nurses’ talking voices slowly faded away, but my heart could not settle.
I gradually looked at the arm covered in a bandage, a thought about to break out from the bottom of my heart.
I called the doctor and asked for the bandage to be taken off.
At the moment I saw the dark red skin, my heart completely went cold.
Together with the small bit of remaining feeling for Isaac, it all disappeared without any sign.
Three years of deep love, five years of marriage, in the end, could not compare with fifteen days together.
After being hospitalized for an entire day, Isaac didn’t come to visit me, and he also did not send any message.
However, I heard from nurses walking by that Isaac was keeping Valerie company. To make her smile, he even went to catch hundreds of fireflies and placed them in her room.
Before, when I saw fireflies in storybooks, I had really wanted them and had often asked Isaac to take me to watch them.
Yet he always used many reasons to avoid it, even telling me, “That is only fake things made up in storybooks, meant to trick simple young girls like you.”
But now, hundreds of fireflies, caught whenever he decided to.
By this time, what else do I not understand? It was never that he was unable to do it; it was only that he did not love me enough.
Valerie’s Facebook was updated right on time.
In the picture, she sat sideways on the hospital bed, and on her belly, there was a head leaning to listen.
Caption: [My dear one is now raised to the child’s father. Before knowing it, he gets one more role.]
Child.
These words pulled at the deepest place in my heart.
In the past, I had also planned to have a child with Isaac after our wedding. But he had strongly backed me, “My sweet baby, do anything you like. No need to be tied down by this role.”
Later, I asked him, “If I never have children in my whole life, will you be upset? Or look for another woman to have a baby for you?”
Back then, Isaac promised seriously, his eyes very sure. “Of course not. In this lifetime, only you are my real love. You like to focus on your career, then I will be your strong support.”
But when I truly became pregnant, Isaac turned completely uncaring, even ignoring whether I was alive or dead.
The following day, I got the notice that the updated documents were finished.
After pushing the call button, I told the doctor. “Please help me abort this child.”
The doctor looked a bit unwilling. “Does the child’s father know about this?”
I remembered the picture on Facebook where Isaac leaned down near Valerie’s stomach, and my stomach turned violently.
Holding back the discomfort, I hardly said, “He doesn’t have to know.”
When I walked out of the abortion room, I happened to meet Isaac guiding Valerie toward the bathroom.
When he noticed me, a brief look of worry appeared in Isaac’s eyes.
“Kendall, why are you here?”
His eyes were just about to move past me when a sudden cry came from the bathroom.
It was Valerie’s voice.
Isaac almost immediately rushed inside without turning back, lifting Valerie in his arms as he moved past me.
From start to finish, he did not even give me one more look.
Eight years of love, it was time for the curtain to fall.
