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Three hours later, Angela returned to the house she shared with Braeden.
Braeden fixed his cold eyes on her. “Angela, where did you go? I couldn’t reach you on the phone. I waited for you for two whole hours. Do you know how worried I was?”
Angela looked at Braeden again, her mind filled with the image of him at the airport, arm around Valerie, bending down to kiss her.
Once upon a time, she loved it when Braeden kissed her. Now she found it disgusting.
Braeden couldn’t hear Angela’s response, so he got up and walked toward
her.
“Angela, you know what I hate most is when you go somewhere without telling me where you are. Weren’t the previous punishments enough?”
The next second, Braeden’s large hand gripped Angela’s slender waist tightly.
Angela’s body stiffened and didn’t move, her curled lashes trembling.
In the past, the tobacco scent on him had made her feel infatuated and safe. Now it felt dangerous.
She knew Braeden’s domineering nature and his possessiveness over her all too well.
When she was twenty, she had a fight with him and went mountain climbing with classmates.
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Braeden went crazy and mobilized helicopters across the city, searching every mountain just to find her.
The first thing he did when he found her was lock her in his apartment and keep her there for a whole month.
She cried and begged him, but he never let her go.
Not until she kept promising and swearing that she would never disappear or make him worry again.
After that incident, Angela became afraid of Braeden. She promised him that no matter how they fought, she would never dare play the disappearing act again.
At this moment, Braeden’s slender fingers lifted her chin. “Angela, speak. Do you want me to really punish you?”
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Angela’s eyes showed a h preparing to leave him completely, he would probably go truly insane.
Not wanting to alert him, Angela said in a trembling voice, “I just… went to the hospital.”
She was pregnant, two months along.
When Braeden heard “hospital,” his eyes instantly darkened.
He kissed Angela’s forehead, his voice low and suppressed. “Angela, I know you still want to have children for me, but your fertility is zero. We’ve tried for so many years–that’s enough. I only need you, and my life will have no regrets. Stop going to the hospital. I don’t want you to experience that pain anymore.”
She had tried IVF no less than twenty times, but never conceived once. She had received so many fertility shots that her arms were swollen from
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all the injections, but there was still no effect.
A moment later, Braeden’s phone rang.
Angela watched his thick black eyebrows furrow slightly as he rubbed her hair with his hand.
“Honey, stop torturing yourself about having a baby. You are my baby. We can be child–free for life, and that’s fine. Darling, I have to go out right away for something. Stay home and be good. Don’t go anywhere, don’t run around and make me worry, or I’ll really get angry.”
Braeden didn’t wait for her answer before leaving impatiently.
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Angela smiled bitterly. Someone was obviously waiting for him outside. Had he come back just to check if she was home?
Half an hour later, Angela received an audio recording from an unknown number.
“Braeden, is Valerie really pregnant?”
“Yes, three months along. Angela can’t have children, but our family needs an heir. My grandfather is pressuring me.”
The voice on the other end sounded like his friend. “Braeden, back then, you insisted on having Angela, so Sir Hernandez made you give Angela sterilization drugs and wouldn’t let you get a marriage certificate with her. Now, with this situation, what do you plan to do? Didn’t you say you loved Angela the most?”
Angela’s face instantly turned pale.
What? Sterilization drugs?
Not only did Braeden cheat on her, but he also gave her sterilization
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Angela’s body ached with excruciating pain as she recalled their wedding night.
Braeden had brought her a bowl of herbal medicine.
“Angela, this is a fertility medicine that the elders in my family recommended. They said if you drink it on your wedding night, you’ll conceive right away. Don’t cry after you finish drinking it.”
Back then, she had lain shyly in his arms while Braeden fed her every drop of the medicine.
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In the recording, Braeden’s voice continued, “Of course, I love Angela. Otherwise, how could I let Valerie get pregnant? How could I put aside the blood feud between our two families just to be with Angela?
“My parents died in that car accident because of Angela’s parents. All these years, I’ve tried hard to ignore it, treasuring and spoiling her like a precious gem. Except for children and marriage, which I can’t give her–I can give her anything else, including the Hernandez Group.”
“What about Valerie? Is she really just a breeding tool that the old man gave you?”
Braeden paused for a long time before finally saying something.
“Valerie has a personality that is as calm as water. I feel very comfortable being with her, very peaceful. This is something Angela can never give
me.”
“Braeden, it seems like you want the best of both worlds.”
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