Chapter 4

Seeing me sit down, he pushed his phone across the table.

"What?"

Julian paused, as if hesitant, but finally, he unlocked the phone screen.

I glanced at it, and my body began to tremble uncontrollably.

In the video, Caleb was holding a cigarette, distributing money to a group of homeless men.

Seeing my stunned expression,

Julian adjusted his glasses.

"When it comes to ruthlessness, I can't compare to Caleb. I was the one who threw you out, but it was him who deliberately… arranged for those homeless men to assault you."

Boom!

"To get you, he'd stop at nothing, willing to destroy you…"

As he spoke.

Distorted faces flooded my vision.

Curses, sneers, the agonizing tearing pain, the embryo crushed into fragments.

"Enough!"

I screamed, rising to my feet, gasping for air.

My face felt cold and numb.

I didn't know if it was for the pain of that night.

Or for him, who, with one word — "deliberately" — destroyed three years of supposed love.

I stared at him, grinding my teeth as I asked,

"How much better are you than him?"

"You're telling me the truth just to prove that the man I desperately ran back to San Francisco for, isn't as good as you…"

My voice was hoarse.

Letting the tears fall, one by one.

"You want to prove that even if I left you, I wouldn't find happiness, that you'll always be my best option. But what's the difference between you and him?"

Julian was silent for a moment, then slowly began to speak.

"I'm a bastard, I wronged you, but I never intended to replace you. But I heard, Mrs. Johnson is about to be replaced."

"He's been hiding it from you, taking Chloe everywhere to socialize, even to the Johnson family estate. He even,"

He paused, his sharp gaze fixed on me,

"—even went to City Hall and got a marriage certificate. I only threw you out of the house. But he's completely thrown you out of this marriage, Audrey. Come with me."

My nerves suddenly went numb.

I felt nothing.

Like the blankness that comes with extreme pain.

I opened my mouth, about to refuse.

My neck was suddenly grabbed with force, and an angry roar exploded in my ear.

"Julian Maxwell! Dream on!"

Caleb used deadly force.

He nearly snapped my neck.

"Aren't you pathetic? You suffer some injustice with me, and you run to your old lover for comfort?"

I didn't speak, nor did I struggle.

I just stared at him.

Julian, however, stood up. "Let her go!"

The next second, he was surrounded by a circle of bodyguards.

Caleb sneered, a sinister look flashing across his face.

"You have no say here! Don't forget, she's my wife now!"

"You send her gifts every year and stay entangled with her. If you loved her so much, what were you doing back then?"

Julian's face went pale, his fists clenched tight.

"Caleb Johnson, don't get too smug. You'll end up following in my footsteps!"

With that, he turned to me. "Audrey, when you've thought it through, come find me."

Before Caleb could react, Julian pushed past him and stormed out.

The air felt sticky.

Silent and oppressive.

I walked past Caleb and got into the car first.

He followed behind me, urgently shouting, "You're not allowed to go with him, not allowed to see him, and not allowed to contact him!"

Seeing I didn't respond, he suddenly went wild, grabbing my shoulders and shaking me forcefully.

"I'm talking to you, do you hear me?!"

"You've been divorced once, you don't want a second divorce, do you? Back then, he abandoned you, and the Spencer family didn't care either."

"Only I was good to you. Audrey, don't be swayed by him. Just be a good Mrs. Johnson…"

Good to me?

Lying to me, trampling me, the kind of "good" that nearly killed me?

I laughed softly.

Caleb twisted my head towards him, his eyes filled with urgency. "What are you laughing at?"

I refused to look at him, simply asking.

"Besides Chloe, is there anything else you've been hiding from me?"

Caleb's body stiffened, and he unnaturally turned his head to look out the window.

He didn't admit it.

But he admitted everything.

I laughed louder and louder.

And my heart ached more and more.

My hoarse voice, in the confined space, was like a sharp blade.

"Enough! Stop laughing!"

Caleb raised his voice, reaching out to cover my mouth.

Rage surged in my chest, almost tearing me apart.

I grabbed his hand and bit him hard.

I didn't let go until I tasted blood in my throat.

"Caleb Johnson! You're an animal!"

"You've always wanted to know who I love most, haven't you? I'll be honest, I love Julian Maxwell. I regret divorcing him."

"After all, no matter how much of a jerk he was, he didn't cause me to lose a baby!"

Caleb's breathing grew heavy, his eyes glinting with violence.

He grabbed my neck, his eyes bloodshot.

"Do you think I don't regret it?"

"I, Caleb Johnson, could have any woman I wanted, but I ended up with a worn-out tramp whose baby died in her womb!"

"Julian Maxwell's taste is good. Chloe is not only more fun than you, but better in bed too!"