With this movement, I had the illusion that my whole body was being eaten by millions of ants. The pain distorted my face, and I made faces for a long time before I could control my facial expression.
"You're here."
I held his palm with a smile on my face.
Nicholas liked women who had a poised, elegant, and refined demeanor.
But I was straightforward and had a hot temper.
In order to emulate him, I had learned ladylike behavior countless times in the past five years. After repeated observation and learning, I had finally developed into what I was.
No matter how hard I tried, the word "lady" seemed to be separated from me by an endless gap.
No matter how much I suppressed my nature, I would only end up learning a weird thing.
"How could you hit Karen?"
Nicholas shook off my hand and peppered me with angry questions.
The sudden action caught me off guard.
My head hit the wall hard, making me gasp and unable to speak for a moment due to the pain.
"Don't think that just because you've been with me for so long, you can act recklessly. You're not qualified yet."
My collar was tightly grasped by his big hand, my face turned red, and I felt like I was being pushed into the water and was about to suffocate.
"Let go... let go. It hurts." Beads of sweat the size of beans fell down one by one.
"Why are you pretending? Mr. Thompson said you were just in shock due to emotional excitement. To put it bluntly, you are just pretending to be sick."
The roar continued.
"Don't forget, I'm your wife."
I roared with force, veins bulging as I clenched onto the bedsheet tightly.
After sleeping in the same bed for so many days and nights, no matter how cold-hearted a person was, they would not just be physically active without being emotionally active.
After all, we once took the oath together at the church.
"So what? You're not even as good as one of her fingers."
I closed my eyes.
At this moment, I realized that all my efforts over the past five years were actually a joke.
He was not my safe haven, after all.
Six days passed in a flash, and I was lying in bed like a dead fish.
The pain in my body intensified gradually as if I were being slowly roasted over a fire. The scorching flames turned my skin red and seeped into every fiber of my being.
Nicholas had never come back since he left last time.
I knew he was in the hospital.