Chapter 4

"Lora? Are you here to nurse your health and prepare for pregnancy again? I've got a secret remedy for giving birth to children. Try it. Maybe it can make you pregnant finally."

I seemed to have become accustomed to Rita's undisguised arrogance.

"Don't bother. I suppose this kind of secret remedy will only work for certain desperate people."

Adam's face immediately darkened.

"Lora, will holding back your mockery kill you?"

"I'm not talking about her. Why are you flipping out?"

Adam was so angry that his temples throbbed. Rita's big watery eyes were full of grievance when she said, "Adam, I mean well. Did I do anything wrong?"

"You're not in the wrong. It's just that she doesn't know what's good for her!"

Sherry couldn't hold it in any longer. She stepped forward and tried to push Adam away but was stopped by Rita.

The two of them continued to tussle.

"Adam!"

Rita cried out in pain, and Adam took her side.

How could I let Sherry get hurt because of me?

I made a few bloody scratches on Rita's face.

Adam ordered me in a low voice, "Lora, you're a shrew! Apologize to Rita! Otherwise..."

He thought for a long time but couldn't think of anything to threaten me with.

"Why don't we divorce?"

Adam turned his face away awkwardly and nodded slightly.

In the past, I would have felt hopeless because of leaving Adam.

Now, I just wanted to have nothing to do with him.

"Don't force me! Otherwise, if we really divorce, you will be the one to regret it!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he asked Rita with a gaze that was filled with pity and love.

A person's eyes couldn't lie. Once upon a time, Adam looked at me that way.

They looked at each other affectionately, but I didn't feel anything particular about it.

Sherry was so angry that she was about to cry. I pulled her out.

"Don't let some shit stain your eyes!"

After giving me a sharp look, Adam hurriedly took Rita to the surgery department to treat her wound.

Not far away, I could vaguely hear Rita asking him stupidly, "Adam, am I disfigured? Do I need to be injected with a vaccine?"

However, Adam said in a doting and gentle voice, "Don't worry. With me around, you won't be disfigured."

Adam was not angry at Rita's sarcastic comment on me.

It was clear that he was only in love with Rita now.

It was ridiculous that my mother-in-law died for this man's sake. It was also hilarious that I was about to have an abortion for him.

Sherry accompanied me home to pack up. At first glance, she saw all kinds of couple's items in the living room.

"Lora, can I throw them away?"

I glanced at the stuff indifferently.

"Throw them away. Trash should be sent to the garbage station!"

When I was packing up, Sherry destroyed everything that represented my love with Adam for me.

This home of love, which was built by me and Adam, was no longer warm in an instant.

Just as Sherry was treating all the couple's belongings as garbage, Adam came back with Rita.

"What are you doing?"

"Hey, isn't this bitch Rita's Adam? I'm helping you clean up the garbage for free!"

Sherry almost called Adam trash openly.

His face instantly darkened.

"Lora, are you going to destroy our house?"

I smiled and said nothing.

Since Adam could get no response from me, he was so angry that he smashed the biggest wedding photo. He was so exasperated that he picked up the scissors and cut the photo into pieces.

"Lora, if this is what you want, I'll do as you wish!"

Silently watching him go crazy, I reined in my smile and looked into his eyes.

"Are you done? Let's go to the City Court!"

Like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, Adam suddenly stood up, and his eyes turned red.

"I didn't expect you to be so cruel and heartless! You keep talking about divorce. Have you considered my mother's feelings? Do you have to piss her off?"

"As I said, divorce is what Lucy wanted for us according to her last words."

Rita watched the show with a smile for a long time, but she didn't get the result she wanted.

Finally, she said, "Lora, Mrs. Shaw regards you as her own daughter. Is this how you treat her? Isn't that disappointing? Adam and I are each other's first love. You can't deprive us of our right to recall our youth. You shouldn't divorce him or curse your mother-in-law to death! Which woman would ruin her family like this?"

Adam snorted in cooperation and looked at me sharply with deep hatred as if he wanted to cut me into pieces.

He had forgotten that he was the one who had smashed the photos the living room.

"If you want a divorce, send my mother back!"

"That's right. After all, Adam is her biological son. Lora, you're an outsider! I know you like to occupy other people's stuff, but you can't take everything! You can't just occupy his mom because you have no mother!"

These words were vicious.

Adam knew full well that being an orphan would be a trauma for the rest of my life, but he only frowned to express his displeasure and did not stop Rita from humiliating me.

Sherry had been holding back her anger for a long time. She rubbed her wrist and wanted to go up again. I didn't want her to get involved, so I motioned for her to take my luggage first.

"Lora, I'll give you half an hour to restore the house to its original state! Otherwise, you won't be able to explain it when Mom comes back!"

After that, Adam went to clean up the room with a gloomy face.

He gave me the illusion that he didn't want a divorce.

Seeing this, Rita could no longer keep the smile on her face. While I was moving my luggage, she deliberately stretched out her foot and tripped my suitcase.

Caught off guard, I fell heavily to the ground with the suitcase.

The pain of the broken glass piercing into the palm was not as severe as the pain of the abdomen hitting the suitcase.

I immediately felt a warm current gusting out of my body.

When Adam heard the noise, he looked at me disdainfully.

"Now you're playing weak and pitiful? Stop pretending and get up quickly!"

He tried his best to pull me up, only to find that my face was pale.

He frowned and asked me tentatively, "Lora? What's wrong?"

Rita hated it the most when Adam cared about her.

The resentment in her eyes was not hidden at all. Just as I was thinking that something was wrong, Rita kicked the back of my hand in a blind spot.

The glass shard pierced my palm, and the pain mixed with the abdominal pain almost made me faint.

Adam's angry roar forced me to wake up.

"Lora! How long are you going to pretend? Are you going to put on a show now?"