When my mother-in-law saw that Kelly's belly was not moving, she placed all her hopes of holding a grandson on me.
In order to continue the Bennet Family lineage, I used all my tricks and lowered myself to seduce Victor. However, in Victor's eyes, all this was me being a slut.
The man pretended to be her eldest brother and lived with Kelly. I thought the Bennet Family would soon get the good news of adding a child.
Feeling the pain in my abdomen, I knew that this child might not be saved.
"Mom, don't worry, I will be strong."
Except for life and death, life was all scratches. Fortunately, everything was in time. My mother-in-law comforted me for a long time and didn't leave until the nurse came.
When she left, she didn't forget to remind me to take the pregnancy-preserving medicine on time. I smiled and after she left, I threw the medicine into the sewer.
The doctor came to check on me and I asked him to help me prescribe a medical abortion.
"Alecia, don’t you want this child? This is your husband's posthumous child, why are you..."
I understood why he was puzzled. In the eyes of outsiders, I loved Victor so much that I might want to commit suicide if I didn't have his child. Logically, I would try my best to keep the child and give birth to him. Unfortunately, this child should not come. I didn't want my child to become a tragedy of being unloved like me.
The medicine went into my throat and in just one night, the child was gone. When the sky was slightly bright, I fell into a deep sleep. However, I was awakened by the pain in my arm.
I opened my eyes and met Victor's anxious eyes, "Draw more. My wife is waiting for her panda blood to save her life!"
I struggled hard to prevent the needle from piercing my arm smoothly.
Victor's face suddenly darkened, "Alecia, your sister-in-law is in critical condition. She urgently needs a blood transfusion. There is no RH negative blood in the blood bank now..."
I covered my pierced arm and sneered, "My sister-in-law and I have never been familiar with each other, how do you know that I have panda blood?" I looked at him steadily, looking forward to his answer.
Victor inevitably felt guilty and begged me with red ears, "Alecia, you are the most generous. I heard your colleague tell me about your blood type, so I had to trouble you."
The emergency nurse next to me was not familiar with me, how could she know my personal information? If she knew that I was pregnant and had a miscarriage, she would not help Victor. Instead, she then explained, "Ms. Whitson, your sister-in-law's corpus luteum ruptured, the situation is urgent, can you..."
It turned out that Victor couldn't wait to go back and sleep with someone else's wife before his brother's body was cold. However, no matter how generous I was, I couldn't ruin my body that just had a miscarriage to wipe his ass.
"I just had a miscarriage last night. I can't donor my blood. You can find your ex-girlfriend. I remember she has panda blood."
When I mentioned about his ex-girlfriend, Victor was stunned at first. He looked reminiscence and he became furious.
"What are you talking about? Who do you think of my ex-girlfriend you were mentioning about? If you don't want to donor your blood, just say it directly. Why do you have to accuse me so bad?"
This was because I almost exposed the truth and he was embarrassed and angry. I didn't want to play along, so I told him the girl's name directly.
"That little girl who loves to wear red skirts, Margot Bailey. When you two broke up, didn't she say that as long as you ask, she would die for you?"
Victor's forehead was throbbing with veins. He raised his hand to smash my water cup, "Alecia! Are you sick? I'm Leister, your brother, not your philandering husband! No wonder you can't even keep your man. Looking at your crazy look, which man can stand it with you?!"
After all, he didn't care at all even I said I had a miscarriage.
It was as if the child in my belly was not his. He only thought about Kelly Moore and got my blood. He even scolded me, "I know you can't accept the pain of losing your husband, but please look carefully, I am Leister Bennet! As long as you are willing to donor your blood to save Kelly, your child can call me daddy when he is born!"
He ignored my pale face and clamped me tightly. He then asked the nurse to draw my blood quickly.
All my struggles were useless. Since he saved my life, I just regarded this as the last time to repay the Bennet Family. I suppressed my panic and let the bright red blood flow into the blood bag.
After drawing blood, he didn't even say thank you and ran away with the blood bag.
Facing his anxious back, I gently said, "Victor, we are even!"
A dizziness came over me and I fainted on the bed completely. When I woke up again, my colleague, Isla Hill, was giving me nutrient water while blaming me.
"When will your healthy head be working out? That scumbag, Victor, is dead. Why do you still care about his Bennet Family? Your husband was just buried yesterday and his elder brother and his wife were in the emergency room. If you don't know, you would think they got married last night!"
I couldn't help but sneer. For Victor, last night was just a wedding, wasn't it?
He finally outlasted his elder brother and got rid of me, a dog-skin plaster. It would be strange if he wasn't excited to be able to get what he wanted and become Kelly's husband.
Seeing me laughing, Isla thought I was going to speak for Victor again and immediately pinched my lips. "No more speaking, or I will scold you for the entire day. In matter of fact, Victor is dead. Maybe this is the retribution for his philandering!"
"In my opinion, there is no good man in the Bennet Family. It's outrageous that his brother and his wife almost killed someone on the day of their brother's funeral. Why do they want to draw your blood? Isn't your life still a life? Even if Victor saved your life, you have been working like a cow and a horse for him all these years. You have already paid it back. Now he’s dead and so was your child. You can get a fresh start!"
I smiled and listened to Isla defending me. I hoarsely said, "Don't worry, from today on, I will only live for myself."
Hearing that I gave in, Isla was shocked. She touched my forehead to confirm that I was not talking nonsense. She then hugged me and coaxed, "Alecia, finally you got it!"
More than getting it, I wanted to leave forever.
After Isla left, I made a phone call, "Hey, do you still mean what you said last time about marrying me?"
The phone was silent for a moment and then it was ecstatic, "Yes, absolutely. I always mean it. You know I always wanted to marry you. I will come back to pick you up."
Adam Goyle was isolated from the news in Africa and he might not know that I had become a widow. However, his words were enough.
"You don't have to come back, just wait for me for half a month. I need to take care of everything here, then I come to Africa to work as a doctor without borders with you."
After the words fell, Victor unexpectedly pushed the door open with chicken soup. In the meantime, I didn't want to worry Adam, so I hung up the phone quickly.
"How can you go to Africa when you are pregnant?"
It turned out that he didn't hear me say that I had a miscarriage yesterday.
"I’m afraid that you heard me wrong, brother."
The new name made Victor pause and put down the chicken soup.
"Well, thank you for what happened this morning. This is the chicken soup that mom made for you and Kelly. Enjoy it while it's hot," he coldly said and immediately put down the chicken soup and left, as if he was afraid that I would discover his secret.
In the next few days, Victor never showed up again and I happened to have a work handover with my colleagues.
On the contrary, my mother-in-law would take time to come and talk to me. My mother-in-law was still immersed in the joy of holding her grandson and I was too lazy to tell her the truth.
She knew that Victor loved Kelly, so she shouldn't have used his life-saving grace to make me marry him.
After being discharged from the hospital, I went home and started packing my luggage. Victor didn't love me. There was nothing he gave me in the whole house.
The objects in the house were basically bought by me with careful selection. Those ornaments with good meanings and various couple items are no longer necessary.
I called the waitress at the scrap yard and asked her to clean up and pack all the things up. I asked her to take them away in a car.
The waitress looked at the almost new things and felt sorry, "Madam, are you really willing to throw them away?"
"My husband is dead and I will not use these things anymore."
The waitress patted my shoulder to comfort me and gave me a big red envelope before leaving. However, in just half a day, the home I thought would be my last hope was empty.
When Victor brought Kelly in, they looked at the empty house and were stunned, "Why is it empty?"
"My husband is dead. I don’t think I need to keep such garbage." I didn't know which words I said to offend Victor.
The man scolded me with a cold face, "You know that my brother is just dead and you can't wait to throw away his things. Is this what you call love for him?"
I couldn't help but be stunned. Was he blaming me for throwing things away? I didn't even want him anymore. In fact, I killed our child, so why couldn’t I throw these annoying things? I didn't burn down the house, that was still good enough!
Kelly shook Victor's arm affectionately and said coquettishly, "Leister, why are you so mean to your sister-in-law? Remember, she's pregnant."
Her coquettish tone immediately dispelled the gloom on Victor's face. He hugged her waist and scratched her nose lovingly, with a gentleness in his eyes that I had never seen before.
After the two of them were all greasy in front of me, Kelly asked him to get down to business.
Victor then said to me, "You should be thankful to Kelly. Because of her, we will still accept to host you tonight."
I was not interested in seeing them show their affection in front of me, so I coldly refused it. However, Kelly insisted on taking me to eat delicious food to relax me.
When we got to the restaurant, Victor ordered a table full of dishes that Kelly liked, as if he was counting all the dishes. Yet, there was not a single dish that I liked.
It was not Victor's fault. He had hated me since my mother-in-law forced him to marry me. When he saved me, his few kindnesses turned into hatred.
The meal was tasteless and I left first on the pretext that I had something to do. Unexpectedly, the traffic police came to me late at night.
"Are you Miss Alecia Whitson? You are suspected of hit-and-run. Please come with us."
When I was taken away, I was confused. However, my argument was not convincing at all. It was because I was tossing and turning after I got home, so I opened a bottle of red wine.
The traffic police became more and more convinced that I had hit-and-run after driving under the influence. When I arrived at the police station, I met Victor and Kelly there and I felt something was wrong.
Victor stared at the blush on my face and pointed at me righteously, "Comrade police, it was my sister-in-law who hit someone. We advised her not to run, but she refused to listen!"
Even though I was dizzy, I could tell from Kelly's tightly twisted hands that I was being used as a scapegoat by Victor.