Chapter 4

I believed maybe I should leave that hurtful past behind and begin again with him.

But when I stood outside his office door, holding the soup I had made myself, I heard louder and louder sounds of pleasure.

Rupert’s attractive assistant was sitting on him.

“Who allowed you to come in!”

Rupert’s face changed for a moment, then he picked up an ashtray and hit it against the door.

The broken pieces sliced my lower leg.

It felt like my heart was ripped open, cold air rushing through it.

The secretary wisely walked away.

I slowly removed my wedding ring.

This time, there was no fear on Rupert’s face.

He calmly lit a cigarette.

“Another divorce? Are you trying to send your grandmother to her grave?”

“She raised you with so much effort and now that she’s dying, she can’t even rest peacefully because of you. How can you be this cold?”

His hand, which was taking off the wedding ring, suddenly froze.

I lifted my head in disbelief.

He gave a quiet laugh, walked closer and wiped my eyes.

“Was it really needed to cry this much?”

“I already said, the mind and the body can stay apart. Just remember that you are the only one inside my heart.”

That night, I moved from the main bedroom into the spare bedroom.

Rupert said nothing, but while visiting my grandmother, he kissed her caregiver in the stairway.

At that time, I clearly understood what it meant to feel completely broken inside.

“Rupert, I beg you, please do not let Grandma find out.”

Do not let Grandma learn how miserable I was.

He smiled in satisfaction and sent the caregiver away.

A soft kiss fell on the corner of my eye.

“That’s better. Bring your blankets back when you return tonight and do not act up again.”

From that moment on, our marriage, like this wedding picture, was broken beyond fixing.

A phone call from the hospital pulled me out of my thoughts.

The person on the other side asked me how to handle my grandmother’s belongings.

When I reached the hospital, two nurses cleaning the room were talking quietly.

“Did you hear? The elderly woman in this room was in the ICU, her face soaked with tears!”

“Normally, at her age, staying in such a good ward, with her granddaughter visiting two or three times each week, what could she even worry about?”

“Maybe she saw something bad?”

“Shh, Miss Greystone is here...”

The two nurses quickly walked away when they noticed me.

Their words made my worries grow.

My grandmother… had died quietly.

At first, I believed it was because her cancer cells had changed and caused her so much pain.

I stood frozen for a second, then my foot hit something.

I lowered my head and saw several photos.

After seeing the clear and explicit content in the pictures, my bending movement stopped.

My heart fell and I felt a strong pain inside me.

The pictures showed bare bodies pressed closely together.

One person was Rupert and the other was Rupert’s new favorite, the rising star Sybil Beaumont.

My mind felt dizzy.

So the tears my grandmother cried before she died were because of me.

When I faced Sybil, she and Rupert were locked in a heated kiss.

Not on a hotel bed, but at a party.

Rupert openly showed her off, clearly wanting everyone to know about them.

It seemed that bringing up divorce again truly made him angry.

“For many years, Rupert always kept a lover outside while keeping his wife at home. He never brought a lover out before.”

“Will the title of Mrs. Cavendish really be passed to someone else?”