Chapter 2 Countdown for their divorce
Nora was speechless and her lips quivered.
The hands on her neck did not make her stifle physically but she still couldn’t catch her breath. Something in her heart as well as
the air was lost.
When her tears fell on his hands, Steward immediately kept away from her as if she was something dirty.
“Stop pretending to be a weak and innocent person!” he said.
With bitter pain, Nora closed her eyes and took all her strength to say, “I agree to have a divorce only when your operation is
successfully done.”
“I don’t know what kind of tricks you are playing.” Steward was surprised by her for a while, frowning with disgust at her.
Nora was on the edge of rage but she calmed down and said in a low voice, “Before the divorce, I’ve got one condition. For the
ve got
next month, we should live together like a real couple. When a month is over, I will sign the divorce paper.”
She said it quickly because she was afraid that she could not finish her words at all.
The moment she said the word “divorce“, she felt her heart was squeezed by an invisible hand and bleeding.
Nora didn’t expect that she would be the one who started talking about the divorce. She had thought that she would be his wife
for the rest of her life, even though Steward would not treat her as his wife.
She had been waiting for him to be moved by her even if it might take three years, five years or a decade.
Maybe she just didn’t have that luck. She was now seeing her last days.
“I will have a divorce with you only when you do what I said. Or, you will never get a divorce even I die…”
Steward clenched his fists. He started to have the idea of divorcing Nora since he heard that Ann was coming back.
Since the one who he really loved was coming back, how could he bear to live with Nora?
Seeing that Steward was in the middle of thinking, Nora ran toward him with a hug.
“Please, I only need a month. After that, I will leave you, forever…” Nora was begging Steward.
Steward was startled by her for a while and suddenly he felt a little upset with his hands pushing her away.
When he touched her body, he felt that she had lost a lot of weight. It seemed that even a little force could push her down.
But then he was thinking that Nora had nothing to do with him. The more important thing was that he would be able to dump her
a month later.
“I accept the condition.” Steward said to her in a low voice,
After hearing that, Nora’s eyes were filled with despair but she couldn’t do anything.
In the house of the Mandel’s.
The Mandels all felt that something was changing between this couple.
Steward had been upset about his marriage and he treated Nora indifferently. The Steward family was surprised that they were closer to each other.
Steward’s parents were glad to know that and they said, “Are we going to have a little baby in our family? We can’t wait to be your kid’s grandparents!”
Wearing a cold face, Steward didn’t want to talk about that. He was going to leave and with the help of Nora, he went in the car. When the car’s door opened, Nora was hardly pushed by Steward into the car. Her head hit the car and she felt a lot of pain. “Are you going to have a baby with me? Is this your real aim?”
Nora raised her head and she found his eyes, though losing sight, were full of hatred and disgust at her.
Her head as well as her whole body were in great pain.
“I did not want to…” Nora said weakly. Even though she wanted to have a baby, she was not able to.
“I hope you are telling the truth.” Steward sneered and kept hurting her with his words, “I would rather have no baby at all than have a baby with you.”
“We are not going to have a baby,” Nora felt a bit sad. She can’t have a baby and he didn’t want to.
They kept silent on the way home.
The car stopped in front of their house. Steward opened the door and Nora got off on the other side. She ran toward him and held
his hands.
For the following days left, she would no longer live with her like strangers.
He did not refuse to take her hand but thought he would be able to leave her in ten days.
Nora felt much better and her pale face turned a little red.
She wished that they could live like this forever.
“Steward, I am coming back,” a sweet but sudden voice came from behind them.
That voice, like a spell cast on her, instantly shattered the illusion of Nora’s happy life with Steward.
Not far away, Ann stood with a big sweet smile on her face.
