Chapter 9
I never knew the man I loved for six years could be such a brilliant actor.
Tears gushed out of his bloodshot eyes.
Mouth trembling, he mumbled, “No… impossible! How could this be…
“Hollie, you must be punishing me for forgetting you! Hollie, I’m sorry… I really am…”
Herman reached into the package and pulled out a voice recorder.
Still clinging to hope, he pressed the play button several times before it finally started.
But what played was his voice in a conversation with his friends.
“This will be the only time I lie to her. Once I’ve slept with ten more women, I’ll settle down….
Hurry up and find me some flirty virgins. One every three days…”
The recorder slipped from Herman’s hand, crashing onto the floor.
But the playback continued, looping over and over again.
Memories crashed down on him like a tidal wave.
And suddenly, it all came back to him. The doctor had once called him to come to the hospital and sign the papers.
What did he say back then?
“The child might not even be mine!”
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He figured maybe that was the moment I truly gave up on him.
Would everything have been different if he had gone to the hospital that night?
It was his child, something he had always wanted.
Even though he had never pressured me to have children, deep down, he had wanted to create a family with me.
But he killed that possibility with his own hands.
He had forced the woman he loved to go through an abortion alone. And then, he had thrown me out of our home.
Not only had he shown no concern for me, but he had refused to believe me, forcing me to donate blood when I was at my weakest.
The memory of dozens of missed calls from that night flashed through his mind.
He was certain something must have happened that night.
Without hesitation, Herman pulled out his phone and called the hospital’s obstetrics department..
The moment he heard the confirmation that I had fainted behind him after donating blood, his grief overflowed.
Herman clutched the glass jar tightly in one hand, while the other slammed against his face.
His parents, having watched long enough, finally stepped in to stop him from torturing and embarrassing himself.
His father went onto the stage to turn off the recorder.
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His mother ordered all livestreams to be shut down immediately.
But Herman shoved them away, his bloodshot eyes blazing. “Don’t touch it! No one turns off the camera!
“This is all my fault. I need to confess to the entire world!”
Ignoring his swollen, bruised face, Herman dropped to his knees before the camera. “Hollie, I know you’re watching. I’m sorry! I should never have come up with such a disgusting plan just to satisfy my desires!
“I’m a bastard. But Hollie, I truly love you! I don’t know how to live. without you…”
I let out a cold laugh.
So this was his grand confession?
Like hell he couldn’t live without me. He had been doing just fine.
Even after I blocked Bethany, she found other ways to send messages to
taunt me.
She bragged about how many times they did it in a day and how many new tricks they tried.
She mentioned she was so sore from three days straight that she couldn’t even walk while Herman was nearly drained dry.
She even told me how Herman said I was dull in bed, repeating his exact words to mock me again and again.
If Herman had broken up with me first, no matter how many women he slept with afterward, I wouldn’t have hated him or regretted ever loving
him.
But he had chosen the possibly worst way to humiliate me.
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I couldn’t believe I had been with such a monster for six years.
Herman kept crying on camera, but I was done watching his performance.
I grabbed Betty and headed to the dining hall for some food.
But Betty refused to miss a second of cursing Herman and barely ate.
When she mentioned Herman was crying so hard that he nearly passed out. I felt nothing.
He had brought this upon himself.
No doubt, his so–called repentance only earned him the wrath of the entire internet.
Bethany was dragged through the mud too.
But Bethany wasn’t ashamed. Instead, she saw it as an opportunity.
She picked up her dirty, stained wedding dress and walked toward Herman smilingly.
Kneeling before him, she poured her heart out. “Herman, since Hollie ran away from the wedding, it means she never truly loved you! If she could abandon you and abort your child so easily, doesn’t that prove she was never worthy?”
Lost in despair, Herman finally looked up at Bethany. All tenderness in his eyes vanished, and his hands shot toward her throat.
“Whore! This is all because of you! If you hadn’t seduced me, how could I have been so blind?!
“If I had realized earlier that Hollie knew the truth, I would’ve had countless chances to make it right! But now, I don’t even know where she
is…”
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Bethany’s eyes bulged, but he refused to let go.
The violent scene forced the platform to cut off the live stream.
