In the trimester of my pregnancy, I was suddenly kidnapped into a small dark room.
When I saw my husband walk in, I thought I saw my savior, but he stepped on my hand.
"From now on, you have three hours to seek help. As long as one of them comes to your rescue, I'll let you go. How's that?"
He referred to three group chats on my phone, one for my parents' family group, one for my brother and sister-in-law's family group and one for my in-law's family group.
"Think about who to contact first, after all, every time you are rejected, you will get beaten up."
Later, I was finally rescued. Seeing that I was covered in blood, they just kept begging me for a letter of forgiveness.
However, they did not know that the person they were protecting was the one who would ruin their lives.
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I curled up on the ground, trying to minimize my presence as much as possible.
Just as I heard footsteps, I still looked over hopefully.
To my surprise, the person who came in was my husband, Leonard Roxburgh.
"What on earth do you want to do? It's not enough to arrest me, you want to arrest my husband as well!"
Leonard smiled mysteriously and evilly when I shouted these words and he glanced at the people behind him who were approaching me.
I was so scared that I shrunk back, but one of them grabbed my hair and dragged me forward.
They left me right in front of Leonard. I laid on the ground miserably, trying to reach out and touch Leonard's trouser, but I felt a piercing pain.
"With your dirty hands, do you think you're worthy of touching me?”
Then, he crushed my hand with his foot, gritting his teeth and said, "From now on, you have three hours to seek help. As long as one of them comes to your rescue, I'll let you go. How's that?"
I looked at those three group chats and felt a bit confused for a moment. They were all my relatives, but would they save me?
Seeing me not react, he crushed my hand even harder.
"Think about who to contact first, after all, every time you are rejected, you will get beaten up."
I looked at him in disbelief.
"Do you know what you're doing now?"
I held my stomach with my other hand and said word by word, "I'm pregnant with your child!"
I thought it would be a surprise. Just a second ago, I was still imagining how happy he would be when he found out. But the next second, I did not expect that I would be dragged into this room.
And the initiator was the father of my child!
Leonard smiled, but his smile did not seem happy.
It was mockery!
"You are not worthy of bearing my child. Otherwise, why do you think I chose this moment to implement my plan?" Leonard said, signaling his men to drag me into the room and then all of them went out.
"Tell me, which one should we call?"
I refused to say anything. I could not believe my husband, who had always been gentle and considerate, would be so vicious.
However, the slap I got forced me to believe that the person in front of me was the man who had slept in the same bed with me for a year.
His slap landed heavier and heavier on my face. At first, I felt pain, but later I just felt numb, so numb that I felt dizzy.
Perhaps he was tired of slapping me, he finally stopped and shouted. "Who should we call first?"
I admitted that I was scared at that moment. I wanted to live. Leonard was like a roaring beast without any humanity!
I endured the pain and opened my mouth, but before I could say anything, he threw another slap.
"I have endured you for a long time and you have always been pretending to be weak! Why aren't you the one who died!"
