Why? Because I won’t live long. Once I’m gone, Lachlan, who loves her so much, will definitely marry her. What’s the rush? “I’m dying anyway, why waste your energy on me?” I couldn’t understand.
Her expression turned cold instantly: “I won’t allow it. I won’t let Ethan think of you as a gentle and virtuous wife after you’re dead. I want you to be a disgrace in his heart, never surpassing me!” She pulled out a dagger and stabbed her shoulder, blood gushing out instantly. She threw the dagger at my feet and lunged at me to snatch my daughter. We struggled to the window.
Adeline shouted sharply: “Sister, give me the child. Even if you want to commit suicide, you can’t take the child with you!”
“What’s wrong with you!” I fought with her desperately. The noise grew louder, and my daughter cried loudly in fear. Seeing Adeline about to take my daughter, I lifted my foot, intending to kick her away. But Lachlan suddenly appeared and kicked me to the ground, snatching my daughter away.
“Nora! How dare you lay a finger on Addie!” My head hit the corner of the wall, and I felt a mountain of pain pressing down, as if something had burst. It must be the tumor, as the doctor said. If it bursts, I would die. My vision went dark, and I vaguely saw Adeline weakly fall into Lachlan’s
arms.
“Ethan, Sister said she didn’t want you anymore and wanted to jump off the building with the child. When I tried to stop her, she stabbed me.” Lachlan was furious: “Nora, you’re a madwoman! If you want to die, do it alone, don’t drag my daughter and Addie with you!” Lachla
Nooked at Lachlan with despair, weakly saying: “Lachlan, it’s my last day.” Lachlan froze for a moment, feeling his heart tearing, as if losing something important. He was about to scold me harshly, but suddenly noticed the scar on my forehead. He instinctively worried: “What happened to your head?”
As he spoke, he reached out to pull me up. But Adeline suddenly clutched her shoulder and screamed: “It hurts, it hurts so much, Ethan, my shoulder was pierced by Sister, I’m going to die from the pain!” Seeing Adeline covered in blood, Lachlan panicked, and his concern for me vanished in an instant. He picked up Adeline and ran out, leaving me with just one sentence: “I’ll take her to the hospital first. Call an ambulance yourself. Call me when you get there, and I’ll pick you up.”
Watching him disappear through the door, I struggled to call 911 and eventually fainted on the floor. Feeling life slipping away, in a daze, I seemed to press the answer button on the phone: “Addie’s injury is too severe. She needs someone with her, I’m busy right now, but I promise to find time to see you later.” A cry of pain came from the other end, then it seemed the call was disconnected.
My consciousness flickered, and my whole body felt drained, limp, my pupils dilated. I vaguely heard the sound of an ambulance. I seemed to smell the scent of disinfectant. I seemed to feel the pain of electric shocks. As my consciousness blurred, I could only hear the doctor telling me not to fall asleep. I thought it was quite punctual, really dying on the seventh day.
But what about my daughter? She’ll be tormented by Adeline in the future. And I haven’t seen her one last time. I tried hard to open my eyes, but I had no strength. I could only grab the doctor’s hand and tell him: “Doctor, please leave a message for Lachlan for me.”
“Lachlan, take good care of our daughter, or I won’t let you rest even as a ghost.” The doctor’s eyes reddened, promising to remember. The next second, my hand fell. The machine beside me beeped: Ding–Everything returned to darkness. I was dead. As the nurses pushed my body toward the morgue, they happened to pass by Lachlan. He caught a glimpse of the hand dangling beside the white cloth. The silver ring on the ring finger looked so familiar to him. In that moment of realization, his pupils shrank, and he instinctively called out to the nurse, “Wait!”
However, this was all just a dream of obsession before I died. Lachlan hadn’t discovered I was dead. After I died, my soul drifted out of my body. It drifted for a long time, not knowing where to go. Just as I was aimlessly wandering, the scene suddenly shifted. I saw Lachlan at the hospital, keeping vigil by Adeline’s bedside, watching her slowly wake up, tears of gratitude in his eyes, thanking the heavens.
With red eyes, looking disheveled, yet holding her as if after surviving a disaster: “Thankfully, you’re okay. Thankfully, I really can’t bear the pain of losing you again, Addie.” Adeline, seeing his tear–filled eyes, hugged him back: “Ethan, I’m fine. Addie is still here. You’ll never lose me. We’ll be together forever”
The nearby TV was still broadcasting news about the two of them. It was about Lachlan gathering all the city’s famous doctors for an emergency for Adeline, such a big scene that it even made the Metropolis Evening News. Countless netizens envied their life–and–death love, praising them as a perfect couple. Occasionally, a comment slid by: “I remember Mr. Ethan was already married, right? His wife doesn’t look like this.” That single question was drowned in a sea of pink bubbles, unnoticed by anyone. Just like how no one in this world knew about my death. Not even my Husband cared, as the two of them passionately kissed each other.
My soul trembled, a dull pain in my head like a blunt knife cutting flesh, as if it hadn’t dissipated. I let out a self–mocking laugh. She was fine because her death was just something Lachlan made up to deceive me. But I was truly dead. Thankfully, souls don’t feel pain, or I can’t imagine how disgustingly I would have vomited. I wanted to leave, but my soul was bound to Lachlan’s side, unable to stray more than three steps from him.
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