“Me… cruel?” I was stunned. In all these years, he had never spoken to me like this. Now he was doing it for his
mistress.
Tears welled up in my eyes. I suddenly felt a chill all over my body.
Meanwhile, Caitlyn was clutching her stomach, moaning in pain.
Leland warned me, “I’m taking Caitlyn to the hospital now. You stay here and think about what you’ve done. Do you hear me?”
As he said this, he picked up Caitlyn and headed for the door. His mistress gave me a victorious gesture, stuck out her tongue, and gave me a disdainful look.
I clenched my teeth, furious. “Leland, my head is hurt. Don’t you care?”
Leland stopped and turned around.“What are you up to now?”
“…”
“Ouch, my stomach hurts! Mr. Pearson, maybe you should… stay with Ms. Perez. I can take a cab to the hospital. Ouch… It hurts so much!”
Caitlyn was doing this on purpose. Her goal was to make it clear that Leland cared about her, not me. Leland glanced at me before comforting her, “Don’t worry. It’s her fault. I’m taking you to the hospital now.”
I stood frozen, filled with emotions I couldn’t contain.
I touched my head again, my hand still covered in blood.
I didn’t know how long I stood there until my phone buzzed with a message.“Kaylie, stop wasting your energy. Leland cares about me and our child. Don’t embarrass yourself by competing with me for a man. Who do you think you are?”
My phone fell to the floor. I turned and walked to the bathroom, splashing cold water on my face to calm myself down.
In twenty days, I would leave.
But I couldn’t take it anymore.
“Mom, Dad, Grandpa, Grandma, I’m not cursed. I’m not!”
Tears streamed down my face as I bit my lip, telling myself not to cry, not to be weak.
But I couldn’t let go of the man who had been by my side since I was ten. “Leland, I love you so much. I really don’t want to lose you, but why did you betray me?”
I was shaking, feeling cold all over.
Stumbling, I made my way back to the bedroom and saw an unread message on my phone. “Oh, by the way, my nickname is Cay!”
This message deepened the pain of my emotional wound.
I clutched my chest, unable to hold back any longer. Anger consumed me, and I lost all reason. I wanted that
woman dead!
What had I done to deserve this?
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“Mom, Dad, I’m hurting. I just can’t understand how a man can love two women at the same time. Or is it always Cay he loves not Kay?”
I couldn’t take it anymore. Looking at the food on the table and the empty room, I angrily swept everything into the trash–the meal, the cake, all of it.
I couldn’t wait twenty days. I packed my bags that very night and bought a plane ticket.
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Chapter 13
