Chapter 30
She scolded me, “He just wanted a child before he dies. You’re an OB–GYN, can’t you show some compassion?“}
I looked into Lilian’s eyes and actually laughed. I asked her, “Is he really dying of cancer?“>
I took Barry’s medical report from the nightstand and handed it to her, “He’s perfectly healthy. He never had cancer in the first place. He’s been lying to you from the very beginning!“>
Lilian glanced at the report, but there wasn’t a trace of surprise in her eyes. In that moment, my heart sank to the bottom.
So she had known all along. What a joke!!
Lilian looked at me and said after a moment of silence, “Barry just told a little lie. It’s not a big deal. The child’s already in me now. What, should I just get rid of it? Lucas, since when did you become so heartless!“}
After saying that, she actually picked up a cup from the table and smashed it on my head. A sharp pain spread across my forehead.”
A flicker of panic appeared in Lilian’s eyes. She reached out to pull me, but I dodged her. At that moment, whatever last bit of hope I had for her disappeared completely.
I didn’t say a word. Ljust left the house.}
Sitting in the car, I grabbed a cotton ball and dabbed some medicine on the wound. I closed my
ves.
Lilian had been the campus belle in our university, she was beautiful, smart, outstanding. Like anyone else, I had fallen for her at first sight and began pursuing her obsessively. But she rejected me outright, so I kept my feelings hidden.
Then one day, out of nowhere, she approached me and agreed to be my girlfriend. She even introduced me to her best friend and that friend’s younger brother. From that day on, we started dating.}
even. italia.
I poured my heart out for her. I truly believed she loved me. Her parents ran a small OB–GYN hospital.
After graduation, she asked me to work there. So I rejected my dad and joined her family’s hospital. Back then, Sommerset Hospital was on the verge of bankruptcy. I begged my dad to sell our hospital’s equipment to them at a huge discount.
Combined with my medical skills, Sommerset Hospital finally turned around and became successful. Everything was moving in the right direction.
But then, her best friend’s brother, Barry, returned from abroad.
And during that time, I learned the truth, Lilian had only agreed to date me back then to spite Barry. They had been in a secret relationship. But Barry had broken up with her abruptly.
She needed someone to heal her heartbreak and someone to save her family’s hospital. That’s why she chose me.
Even after knowing the truth, I thought maybe, after all these years, she’d have grown some real feelings for me. But I never expected that she’d just keep hurting me again and again.
This time, I was ready to let go completely. I looked at the divorce agreement my lawyer had just sent me. Tomorrow, I’ll hand it to Lilian. Actually, I owned a villa in Newcastle, it was gift from my dad when I became an adult.
I drove there in the middle of the night. But I didn’t expect to run into my old high school rival, Suzanne Cole, in the villa neighborhood. Back in high school, she was always ranked first in exams while I was second. Every time we met, we never had a pleasant word for each other. She had gone abroad after graduation.
I didn’t expect that Suzanne now lived right across from my villa. I was a bit surprised, “You live here too? Weren’t you overseas? Why are you back?”