After Donating My Cornea to My Husband's Dream Girl, He Went Crazy

, Steve Cox's cruel

e my ashes, whisperin

.

Steve's relentless rhythm, my

fingertips traced his sharp jawline

ed violently, fingers clawing the

ched teeth, "my chest..." Cold

oring my weak attemp

e my head, he sneered,

g. It really hurts..

hin with bruising force. "Danna

ze the blood

rt of our deal," he smirk

ies moved in cruel synch

..

like I was a discarded doll, s

red like dropped crystal

Who's your audience now? The people who

he went for

s. Back then, I was Mills' golden gi

lliding on ca

ll remembered how he'd carried me past ga

g to his shoulders, sunli

a top student in the computer science department. I brought hi

uld tenderly put it in his mouth and blow on it for

iful, and the contrast with tonight

ke a corkscrew as I crawl

knees splitting on hardwood, bleeding. I c

my blouse stuck to me - a

mbers required Herc

e, I was so weak that I

e, holding a glass of red wine, stan

how long he

emained indifferent. Did he thin

against his c

at my suffering didn't mak

urst in with their

lass as they loaded

taken too far. It seems you

wling back when the Mi

.

my hands as I stared t

hree months left..." The word

I went to another hospit

my name with pr

around wrinkled fabric. "ther

an adjusted his gla

e your peace.

ter a moment, as if r

d. "Dr. Curtis, the

front of you. I a

me through

ite weariness. "Is there any unfinished

walked - hot tears carvin

min

onths t

age, it was b

l position on the couch. I was just wat

id, Emma, brought over a few v

nd swallowed the vi

te different." The metallic aftertaste

, her posture rig

id you h

new formulations and improved formul

h terror before. My mildest gla

room for domestic mysteries. T

r announced his r

lled the doorway, bac

me as if I were pa

wife, its wooden arms outstretched like a cruci

that same foyer wall, murmur

nights had been his kis

nored me like

called ou

the console table. His

into my palms as my tre

lt like breaking bon

like a panther h

s across his face. It gave me a visio

y eyes; this was the man I

senior year, and thr

fe measured in his

- his annoyance against my br

now?" His sigh could frost glass. "Your r

g when I saw the terminal diagnosis inside, t

the dotted line - the last

ght?" My vocal cords vi

ured could have powe

ns, you have w

.

f life, I'd have let us

might as well have been

wish made our marria

glanced at them briefly, and

d taut between u

ntages hidden in the small print?" His breath s

ore the divorce

-that was what he'd ca

ther gold-digger i

money?" The laugh tore from my th

with an Arctic gaze

car crash revealed

is hardships, but I never visite

itted by the Cox f

boy, he thought I was pure and ki

vain gold-digger, willing

ed to manipulate his father into thre

eyes could pr

cuments snowed ar

ed his

han I ever did. Take it. Take everyth

. "She'll have her wedding march and the best d

t. Paper fragments fluttered

..

tic smell clung to my

I entered my mother's room, he

"the doctor says your mothe

the numbers already scr

alculations, I nearly collided

figure, with Eurasian c

ssion, my cousin Katy Mills,

ing passage to this

Smiling, she said. "I heard that Aunti

gh her as if s

vengeful poltergeist. "You d

ost."

hy don't you ask

er liked you. You're the one who pushed your way into marrying him. You w

the particular joy of

he question escaped b

ike breaking glass. "The shares-for-ma

.

fibrillator. And my whole bo

a transaction but also an arrangement with

library kisses to t

d, mocking my pa

almost up, and you didn't even know? Wait, did you think

allized like fr

y father died on the spot, and my mother became a

f the Cox family by my

e, only to find out he had a car accident as

read, needing an urge

I successfully donated a kidney, whi

f the Cox family, one of the most influe

e knew about our mutual affecti

but I didn't expect that after becoming th

I said expressionlessly, "Get him

. "You are broke now, aren't you? Five

he sum could save me an

ort followed me

ying, "What are you doing? Why is she still br

end. She was dissatisfied, "My money isn't for noth

Katy hung up the

ng from afar, her eyes

aty chased

ay. "You've been married to Steve for three years an

y are birth control pills. Steve's orders. You've been takin

Maybe shocked, I

race, tumbling down the st

s if summoned, gathe

e passed me, his gaze held

as as cold

his shoulder was

dawned. She di

me me by falling

ally with a husband predis

from injuries, and thi

pulling me out from under the cove

ut?" I was confused, then realized

ace. "I didn't make her jump! It was all