He caught my throat. "Azalea! Burning the house isn't enough; you even shoved Madeline down the stairs. How can you be this cruel?"
I fought hard, trying to get air, speaking with effort.
"Not me... Madeline did it... the child..."
But before I could finish, he tossed me onto the floor, and my stomach was struck again.
"Stop! Child, child, child, you only know how to use the child to threaten me!"
"Do you think hurting Madeline will make me return to you? I don't love you anymore. If not for that child, I wouldn't keep this marriage at all!"
"If I knew you were this cruel, it would've been better if you died with that child back then!"
My face quickly turned white.
Pain rolled through my stomach again and again, and blood poured out once more in heavy amounts.
I fell weakly to the floor and stretched my hand toward Kairo.
"Kairo... help... the child..."
Kairo looked at me with hate.
"Don't try that same act again, even if the child is gone, I won't give in anymore, you and the child in your stomach, go die together!"
Right after he said that, Madeline's face went white and she pulled Kairo's sleeve.
"Kairo, I feel really bad."
In the next moment, he lifted Madeline up and turned around to leave.
Madeline showed a proud smile at me, resting her head against Kairo's neck.
I stayed on the cold floor, full of hopelessness. I laughed in pain, but tears kept running down my face.
Until the bodyguards found me and took me to the hospital.
The nurse asked me in worry, "Mrs. Harrison, why can't we reach Mr. Harrison's phone? The child in your belly is in danger now. We need a signature for the surgery right away."
They used my phone to call Kairo many times.
But he refused every call.
My face turned white, my hands shaking as I held the approval paper.
"My husband is already gone; I can make the choice myself."
Right after that, I signed my name.
Before they moved me into the surgery room, I removed that fake ring and tossed it into the bin.
From that time on, the last bit of feeling I had for Kairo was gone.
......
When I opened my eyes again, I heard the nurses speaking outside the door.
"Kairo is really too much. Azalea is hurt so badly that the child in her belly almost didn't make it, yet he is staying with that woman."
"I heard that woman wasn't hurt at all, but Azalea almost lost her life."
The broken voices of the nurses slowly faded away.
I stared at the ceiling without any feeling.
At that moment, Kairo came in.
He still had Madeline's perfume on him; anyone could tell they had just been together.
I looked at him with no emotion.
Kairo frowned and reached out to touch my hair, but I moved away.
He sighed impatiently.
"Azalea, aren't you alright? I know you're still upset about what happened today."
"Didn't you want to go to the annual meeting? Fine, this year I'll bring you there, as long as you accept Madeline's place and stop going against her, I'll give half of the Harrison shares I hold to the child in your belly."
"Now you can feel calm, right?"
He looked down at me.
Using half of the shares that should go to the child to trade for Madeline's place.
I coldly laughed, then nodded with no feeling.
Then I called the lawyer and told him to bring the share transfer paper.
Soon, the lawyer came to the hospital room door.
I gave the share transfer paper to Kairo and spoke in a rough voice.
"As long as you sign this paper now, I promise I won't go against Madeline anymore, as for what place you want to give her, that's your choice."
Kairo did not expect me to agree so simply.
He frowned, still wanting to speak more.
I pushed the share agreement toward him again.
In the end, he still wrote his name.
Right after that, Kairo's phone started ringing.
His face quickly softened.
I knew it was Madeline calling.
After he ended the call, he looked at me for a moment.
"Wouldn't things be easier if you had acted like this sooner? I'll still go back to the villa later, but how often depends on how you behave."
I pulled my lips slightly and said nothing.
Kairo took this as me giving in.
He showed a pleased smile and turned around to walk out of the room.
I stopped the lawyer who was about to go, gave him the share paper, and spoke in a firm tone.
"Help me reach Kairo's enemy, the Bryant family. Tell him that once this child is born, I'll sell all the shares to him."
