Chapter 5

• Aurora’s Point of View
• The next morning.
• The hospital room door was thrown open from the outside, the loud crash making my heart jump like a pounding drum.
• Kevin’s face, bent with anger, showed in the doorway. Behind him stood a small figure, Betty.
• She was leaning against Kevin, her arm wrapped up in thick bandages, held high across her chest.
• I looked at those silly bandages and couldn’t stop a short laugh. Last night, she had only scraped her palm, and now it looked like her whole arm was broken.
• Kevin charged over to my bedside in just a few steps, standing over me with a look that could kill.
• “Aurora! So you’ve got some nerve now, huh? Showing up at the hospital like this!”
• His eyes fixed on me with no worry at all, just cold judgment and disgust. Like I wasn’t his wife who had just gone through hell, but some stranger he hated.
• “Look at what you did to Betty! The doctor said she might have scars! You'd better say sorry to her right now!” He poked a finger in my face, his tone leaving no space to argue.
• I almost laughed out of pure anger.
• Here I was, pale and hooked up to an IV, my baby barely hanging on.
• And he brought the troublemaker here to blame me and ask for an apology?
• I stared at him, my voice shaking with anger. “Kevin, do you even have a heart? I almost lost the baby, do you get that? That’s your kid!”
• “Kid, kid… just a bastard…” Kevin’s face went stiff, then he snapped in annoyance, “You’re only acting all high and mighty because you’re pregnant. Let me tell you, Betty’s got a way better background. If anything happens to her, can you even pay for it? You’re just a useless housewife. What do you have to match her?”
• He actually called our child a bastard? My hands curled tight.
• “Housewife.” Those words hit me like a knife straight through the chest.
• I had turned down my family’s arranged marriage, faced their pressure, and given up my status just to be with Kevin.
• I left my whole family behind for him.
• And this was how he paid me back, with insults.
• “Kevin, don’t say that…” Betty’s voice was soft and shaky, her eyes red and watery, as if she were almost crying. “It’s all my fault. I shouldn’t have joked with Aurora. Please don’t argue with her over me, she’s pregnant…”
• That wasn’t trying to calm things down.
• That was just tossing gasoline on the fire.
• Sure enough, Kevin’s temper burned even hotter.
• “Listen to yourself! Betty’s such a saint! And you? You’re nothing but a nasty witch!” He rushed over to my bed in a few big steps, grabbed my wrist, trying to yank me up. “Get up! Go say sorry to Betty right now!”
• The sharp pain shooting through my wrist hit the raw wound on my palm, making my sight go dark.
• I fought back, and the IV needle popped free with a snap, blood spraying out like a red warning light.
• “Sir! You can’t do this! The patient needs rest!” A nurse on rounds hurried over, trying to block him.
• “Get lost! This is our family business!” Kevin’s eyes were bloodshot as he pushed the nurse aside.
• He stared at me like I was his enemy, his teeth tight.
• “I’m telling you, you’re going to apologize today, whether you want to or not!”
• Looking at his face twisted in anger, my heart dropped straight down.
• I stopped fighting back and met his eyes, speaking slowly and clearly. “Kevin, let’s get a divorce.”
• Kevin froze for a second, then let out a short, ugly laugh. “Divorce? Aurora, are you out of your mind? If you leave me, how are you going to live? Everything you eat, wear, and use, don’t forget, it all came from me.”
• His words were full of pride and certainty, like he truly believed I was nothing on my own and that without him, I would fall apart.
• Just as he was about to keep going, the hospital room door opened again.
• A whole group of bodyguards in black suits and sunglasses walked in quietly, filling the small room fast.
• The air felt heavy right away, making everyone freeze.
• The lead bodyguard stepped up to my bedside and gave me a small bow.
• “Miss.”
• Kevin and Betty both froze, unable to speak for a moment.
• “Who… who are you? What do you want?” Kevin tried to sound tough, but his voice cracked.
• “Aurora, what the hell? Where did you drag these guys from?” Betty’s face went pale, grabbing Kevin’s arm so hard her hands shook.
• I ignored them.
• I just lifted my chin a little at the lead bodyguard.
• He understood right away.
• Two bodyguards stepped forward and held Kevin, one on each side.
• “Let go of me! Do you know who I am? Aurora, you bitch! How dare you treat me like this!”
• Kevin fought wildly, cursing nonstop, but his strength was a joke against the iron hold of the bodyguards.
• Two more bodyguards moved toward Betty.
• She let out a scared scream, “Don’t touch me! My dad is—”
• But she never finished her line.
• A bodyguard, blank-faced, reached out and pressed his hand over her mouth.
• Then Kevin, still yelling like a madman, and Betty, struggling and whimpering, were just pulled out without a second thought.
• The door closed softly behind them.
• And finally, the whole world went quiet.
• The nurse who’d been pushed aside stood there, wide-eyed and shocked, barely able to hold her clipboard.
• She looked at me, then at the closed door, opened her mouth, but no words came out for a long moment.
• Outside, Kevin’s angry roars kept breaking through, fading in and out.
• “Aurora! Just you wait! There’ll be a day when you come crawling back to me, begging!”
• I listened quietly, not feeling a thing.
• That man who once made me love him to my core? From today on, he had nothing to do with me.