When I woke up again, I realized I was lying on the cold floor. My body could not move, and faint motion sounded nearby.
Listening closely, I realized it was Jeremy and Ophelia being intimate.
After reaching the peak once more, Ophelia wrapped her arms around his neck and asked, “Jeremy, you really aren’t worried Corinne wakes up and catches us?”
Jeremy’s actions were quick and rough, as if he wanted to pull her into his bones. “I told the doctor to inject her with sleeping pills. She doesn’t wake up anytime soon.
Soon after, he stopped moving. In a voice full of indifference, he said, “If she catches us, I'll throw her out. Anyway, the marriage certificate with her is fake. When the time comes, I bring you into the house openly.”
My vision blurred with tears. I forced my sobs down and could only lie still on the floor, watching the mattress beside me shake hard.
Because of the IVF treatments over the years, my body had built some resistance to medicine; even sleeping pills no longer affected me.
Having overheard the truth, my tears poured down, but I endured and stayed silent.
When the sky slowly brightened, I was finally able to “wake up.”
But the moment I stepped out of the bedroom, four or five bodyguards stopped me.
I panicked for a second. “Y-you… what are you doing?!”
The bodyguards looked at each other, then all lifted the rolling pins in their hands and struck my body hard. I heard the dull sound of wood hitting flesh.
The pain made me quickly curl into myself. Struggling to speak, I said, “What are you doing! I am Jeremy’s wife! I am his wife!”
In the middle of the mess, one bodyguard spat and mockingly said, “President Ramsey is the one who tells us to beat you. Who tells you to touch someone you shouldn’t touch!”
Someone I shouldn’t touch…
Was it referring to Ophelia?
A heavy, suffocating ache rose from my chest.
I suddenly remembered the time I went for an interview and was accidentally bothered by a passing thug. Although the man’s dirty hands never touched me, Jeremy still stood up for me.
At that moment, he was like a hero, standing in front of me and teaching that thug a lesson. Afterward, he took off his coat and wrapped it around me.
His voice was unbelievably gentle. “Corinne, as long as I am here in the future, you can wear whatever you want. I am your strongest support.”
But now, my strongest support had become the sharpest knife aimed at me, stabbing my whole heart into shattered pieces.
A loud crack sounded as I heard the bone in my arm break.
At last, I could not stop myself from pleading, “Stop hitting, I am wrong! I know I am wrong…”
I did not know who delivered a hard blow to the back of my head. My vision turned black, and I fainted completely.
When I woke again, Jeremy was sitting at my bedside. Shock and confusion flickered in his eyes.
Then his tone turned cold with disgust. “When I am not beside you, you turn yourself into this miserable state?”
I stayed silent.
Since I had never treated him with silence before, a strange feeling crossed Jeremy’s heart.
His voice turned angry. “This weak look of yours, who are you pretending to be? If you do something wrong, you should say sorry and accept the punishment. Stop pretending to be pitiful.”
My current condition was all thanks to Jeremy.
The man who once said he would cherish me carefully now only showed disgust and dislike between his brows.
He was no longer willing to keep up any act. When he heard movement at the door, Jeremy suddenly stood and walked away, dropping a cold remark.
“With your miserable look, seeing you really ruins the appetite.”
