Chapter 6
The bodyguard saw the blood pooling on the floor and immediately ran to get Elijah.
Through her daze, Anna caught a glimpse of Elijah’s panicked face as he rushed in. Then, everything went black.
When she came to, she was in a hospital bed.
Elijah was at her side, and his face was all worry and softness. “Anna, you’re awake? How do you feel? Does it still hurt?”
The pain in her lower belly throbbed relentlessly.
A bad feeling rose in her chest. She looked at him and asked hoarsely, “My…”
Elijah’s eyes darkened. “You had a miscarriage. You lost a lot of blood, and during the procedure, to save your life, they had to remove your
uterus.”
“So it really was a miscarriage…”
And now she would never carry a child again.
Anna stared blankly at the ceiling as tears slipped silently into her
hairline.
She did not say anything. She just lay there as if her soul had drained
away.
Her silence made Elijah uneasy.
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“Anna, it’s fine if you can’t have kids. I couldn’t bear to see you suffer through childbirth anyway.
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“If you want a child, I’ll have Myla give Then, you can like your own. The kid would never know.”
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He made that ridiculous suggestion like it was the most natural thing in the world–telling her to raise the homewrecker’s child as her own as if he was granting her some kind of favor.
Because in his eyes, she had no other choice.
Yet, Anna did not flinch. She just looked at him, her lips curling up in a soft smile. “Okay.”
Elijah was surprised by how easy that was. “Really?”
She nodded slowly. “Yeah, I can’t have kids anyway.”
He searched her face for a crack, but Anna just met his eyes calmly, letting him read whatever he wanted to see.
Seeing no trace of resistance, Elijah let out a breath and smiled too. “Anna, if you’d been this obedient earlier, you wouldn’t have had to suffer so much.”
Anna kept that gentle smile on her face.
Yes, she should have seen it for what it was earlier.
The very first time she saw him, she should have hardened her heart and walked away. If she had let him die back then, her parents would not have ended up like that, and she would not have lost her child either.
Elijah’s phone buzzed, and he glanced at the screen.
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Myla’s name was flashing on the screen.
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He picked up the call and turned to Anna. “Anna, get some rest. There’s something I need to handle at the company. I’ll come back and stay with you when I’m done.”
Anna nodded.
He leaned over, pressed a kiss to her lips, and got up and left.
Once he was gone, Anna’s hands trembled as she pulled out the white pill and swallowed the third one.
Elijah, who had already walked out, suddenly came back in. He froze when he saw the pill bottle in her hand. “What are you taking?”
Anna looked up at him calmly. “Vitamins.”
Elijah paused for a second but did not think much of it. He just said, “Tomorrow’s Myla’s birthday party. You made her fall and hurt her arm. So, you should attend the party tomorrow and apologize in person.”
“Sure.”
Satisfied, Elijah turned and left again. Anna watched his retreating figure. and a mocking smile curled at her lips.
“Elijah, if you
a
pathetic really cared about me, how could you not see through such
lie?”
Yet, of course, he had made his choice a long time ago.
Elijah did not come back until the next day. Right before the party, he just sent her a message saying he had arranged for a driver to pick her up.
Anna got up and left the hospital, but she did not go to Myla’s birthday
party. Instead, she headed straight for the Tremblay’s residence.
She still had one last thing left to do.
The Tremblay family had always looked down on her background as they never thought she was good enough for Elijah.
And now, everyone knew how he was flaunting his new darling, Myla.
When Anna showed up, Elijah’s father Gilbert Tremblay sneered, “What are you doing here at my home? Hoping we’ll talk Elijah into taking you back?”
The other Tremblay family members all gave her mocking looks while whispering and pointing, clearly enjoying the spectacle.
Anna met their gloating eyes head–on and said calmly, “I’m here to divorce Elijah.”
The Tremblay family was stunned. “She’s crazy… Completely crazy…”
Gilbert looked at her like she had lost her mind. “Do you have any idea what divorce will cost you? Our family demands 999 nails hammered in if you want to do that!”
No one could endure that!
They only had widows, but never a divorcee.
Anna let out a soft laugh, her eyes steady as a rock.
Step by step, she walked to the spot where the ritual punishment was done. Then, she lay down without flinching, and said, “Go on.”
Elijah had once taken ninety–nine lashes for her. He was beaten until he was covered in blood, all for the right to marry her.
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Now she would take these 999 nails to cut him out of her life forever.
At the same time, she wanted to make sure they were never tied together again, not even in death.
The Tremblay family, after their initial shock, decided that she might give up halfway, so they started the ritual. “Let’s see how long you can keep up
this act!”
The first nail was driven in.
Anna remembered the first time she met Elijah–his face was covered in blood, yet his eyes were so bright they made her stop in her tracks and let him walk straight into her heart.
The second nail.
She remembered their first kiss. She remembered him holding her so tightly when his lips brushed hers and the frantic heartbeat she could feel through his chest.
The third nail.
She saw him getting his back whipped raw 99 times before his family as he said, “I only want Anna in this life.”
The fourth nail.
Finally, the nine hundred and ninety–ninth nail.
Anna only remembered his cold, heartless back and the way her parents died so miserably.
Inside the Tremblay’s residence, the silence was so heavy you could hear a pin drop. Everyone stared at Anna in shock.
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She was covered in blood and her body was riddled with wounds.
She couldn’t speak anymore. Her gaze just locked onto Gilbert.
Gilbert then finally agreed to her divorce.
“Thank you…”
Anna managed a faint smile, opened her mouth, and blood spilled out.
With shaking hands, she took out the last pill from her pocket, shoved it. into her mouth, and swallowed it down with the taste of blood.
As she slipped into unconsciousness, there was only relief and freedom. on her face.
“Elijah, goodbye.
“I’m finally free of you.”
