Hank froze for a moment, a flicker of pain crossing his eyes.
"Alex, I can’t accept this condition. We’ve been together for so many years, like family. How can we just separate?"
I curved my lips into a cold smile. So he still remembered.
We had grown up together as childhood sweethearts, and after graduation, marriage had seemed like the natural next step.
We spent nearly every moment together.
All that happiness ended abruptly three years ago, when Lily appeared as my adopted sister.
Gripping my hand tightly, Hank said with distress, "I’ll give you any compensation you want—except divorce."
"Alright."
Without thinking, I slid the divorce agreement in front of him amid the stack of documents. "Then sign this."
A trace of surprise flickered in Hank’s eyes. "If it makes you happy, I’ll buy you anything."
He was about to open it when his phone suddenly rang.
The message was from "Vivian Westbrook."
One glance, and Hank instantly stood and headed for the door.
"There’s an issue at the hospital. I’ll be back soon."
For the first time, I stopped him bluntly. "Wait."
Hank frowned. "Alex, I told you something’s urgent at the hospital. Don’t you trust me?"
"Sign it before you go."
I pointed to the document again. "Or do you no longer want this letter dropping the investigation?"
A flash of anger crossed his face. He snatched the agreement from the table.
Without even looking at it, he flipped to the final page and signed his name.
"Are you satisfied now?"
"Alex, I love you, but I won’t accept you threatening me with Lily. Don’t do it again."
Soon after he left, a stranger added me on social media.
I checked her Moments and found it was Lily’s alternate account.
The latest post showed them at a temple, with Hank kneeling before the Virgin Mary, his face filled with devotion.
"Please bless me and my beloved, so we can have a child of our own."
The post was made at the very moment my child drew his last breath.
Scrolling further, every update was about Hank.
The day I signed the reconciliation letter, they were at the beach together, watching the sunset, celebrating a new beginning.
The day my mother died, they attended an event wearing matching rings, kissing passionately.
For countless days and nights before that, Hank had always been by Lily’s side.
Someone commented, "Your husband treats you so well. I’m so jealous."
Another wrote, "He’s not your husband yet, but I believe true lovers will end up together."
What cousin? She was clearly Hank’s mistress!
And I was the fool, deceived for years.
I immediately rushed to the temple to confront them face-to-face.
But the moment I stepped out of the car, I heard words that tore through me.
"I didn’t mean to kill that old woman. Who knew she’d insist on getting in my way—now she’s just my scapegoat."
Lily’s tone was casual, as if two lives meant nothing.
"I only want the baby in her belly dead. I want Hank to care about my child alone!"
