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To save the company and secure a billion–dollar contract, I drank nonstop with a client until it caused serious damage to my stomach.
While I was recovering in the hospital, I had no choice but to ask my husband, Nicholas Taymor, to travel overseas and sign the contract for
- me.
Because of that, he left his beloved crush, Anya Harris.
Later, Anya chased after him abroad but was murdered by the thugs on the way.
Instead of blaming me, my husband supported me through therapy and told me it was her destiny.
As he continued treating me with the same tenderness as always, our relationship slowly rekindled.
I let down my guard and handed full control of the company over to him.
But just before I gave birth, he delayed taking me to the hospital on purpose. I died during childbirth.
While I lay there dying, he held a photo of Anya, stepped on my belly, and smiled with cruel satisfaction.
He said, “It’s all your fault. Anya and the child she carried were both lost.
“I want you to feel the pain of losing two lives!”
Then, I opened my eyes, back on the same day I was supposed to sign the
contract.
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If he loved her that much, let him be with her.
As for the billion–dollar deal? I’m giving it to my childhood sweetheart
instead.
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The sharp smell of disinfectant filled my nose the moment I woke up.
Everything felt foggy, but I remembered what happened. I drank way too much with clients last night, trying to secure a deal that could rescue Nicholas’s company.
It made me so sick that it tore my stomach.
While I lay weak in bed, I kept hearing my assistant, Gavin Malfoy, urging Nicholas to sign the deal for me.
“Stop faking sleep, Briella. I don’t have time for your drama today.” Nicholas stared at me coldly, full of contempt.
“You thought sending me to sign the deal overseas would keep me from seeing Anya?” he scoffed.
The first time I asked him to go, he refused.
Only after Gavin and I kept pushing him did he finally say yes, and he brought Anya along for the flight abroad.
Once the deal was signed, they stayed abroad a bit longer. Surprisingly, during their return trip, Anya was violently killed by thugs.
Despite it clearly being Nicholas’s fault for not keeping Anya safe, he held me responsible for her passing.
Following Anya’s death, Nicholas acted as if he was comforting me,
showed me kindness, and intentionally got me pregnant, only to watch me
die in childbirth.
And everything he did was simply to get back at me for Anya’s death.
This time, I refused to be entangled with him over this matter any longer.
“I’ll handle the deal myself. You go to your appointment.”
When he noticed I was awake, he mocked me. “What, your plan to stop me didn’t work, so now you’re pretending to change your mind? You just want more of my time. Pathetic.”
Then he lounged back on the sofa, scrolling through his phone like he was proud of himself.
I couldn’t help but think back on everything that led to this moment.
I was already 20 when I found out that my family and the Taymor family had been close for a long time. It turned out Nicholas and I had been engaged since the moment we were born.
I fell in love with Nicholas the first time I saw him.
Everything, from us meeting, to falling for each other, and then getting married, went really smoothly. I honestly believed we were truly in love.
Once Anya came back to the country, Nicholas started staying out all night a lot. He always claimed it was for work events.
Then, one time, he was brought home completely drunk and passed out, muttering Anya’s name over and over.
He mumbled, “I’m sorry, Anya. I truly love you. Don’t cast me out. I only married Briella to punish you for leaving me all those years ago…
After learning the real reason Nicholas wasn’t coming home at night, I cried for three days straight.
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But I couldn’t end the marriage because I still owed the Taymor family a lot.
Ten years ago, my family lost everything. My father died by suicide, and my mother got cancer. Facing such a terrible situation, the Taymor family not only didn’t break off the engagement, but they also used their money
off my family’s debts and help my mother get treatment.
to pay
After Nicholas’s parents passed away, I worked incredibly hard to help Nicholas manage the business. Even though the company made over two billion each year, it constantly struggled with the problem of capital shortages.
The company owed a lot of money for bills and salaries. Plus, the shareholders weren’t getting any profits and had to keep putting more money into the company. The business also started getting more and more bad reviews.
I tried to talk to Nicholas about it, but he just didn’t seem to care.
To help the business, I was always out working, dealing with difficult clients, and being pressured to drink by business partners. I practically spent half the year in the hospital.
But he took the money I worked so hard for and used it to make Anya happy.
Just a single comment from Anya could make Nicholas walk away from the Taymor Group, even though it was his parent’s entire life’s effort!
Later, when I was about to give birth, Nicholas not only refused to take me to the hospital, but he also stepped on me and watched me pass away during childbirth. Only then did I truly understand how much he loved Anya and how much he despised me.
After I died, my childhood friend, Edward Kolberg, got revenge for me
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and visited my grave every day. That’s when I finally saw how much true love I had so carelessly overlooked.
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