A Husband's Vengeance Chapter 2

Ten years ago, the Thorne family went bankrupt. To break up with him, I aborted our child.

Later, he rose again, went to great lengths to marry me, saying I owed him a child.

Five years into the marriage, to conceive as soon as possible, I visited every hospital.

I, who couldn't even drink coffee, drank bowl after bowl of nauseating traditional medicine without blinking.

I was afraid of pain, yet I let the needles prick my lower abdomen until it was bruised all over.

The pain turned into a morbid desire.

That was my hope to cut off the past.

Once I have a child, I can leave here without burden.

Just as he said.

We would owe each other nothing.

His company was always busy.

I had to calculate my ovulation period while avoiding conflicts with his schedule.

The man now was nothing like the boy who craved physical touch back then.

He was cold and abstinent, no longer keen on intimacy.

And I always worked double hard to arouse his interest.

Stockings, uniforms, bunny tails...

But his reaction was always cold.

And that scrutinizing look.

It made me feel ashamed from body to soul.

Years of effort yielded no results.

Of course, I suspected it was Caleb's problem.

That was the third year of marriage. I tentatively asked his assistant and checked all his past medical reports.

The next day at the dinner table.

He threw two latest reports at me.

With many detailed items attached.

His was perfect without any abnormality.

Mine clearly stated.

[Uterine lining is thin, difficult for fertilized egg to implant.]

What did he say then?

Oh, he looked at me coldly, like looking at a clumsy clown:

"Pearl, don't you know best where the problem lies?"

Someone who once hid from everyone to undergo such a painful D&C surgery in a private clinic.

How could I have the right to blame him now?

I still remember my face turning white with embarrassment.

But now.

He tells me he had a vasectomy long ago.

Then what do the ridicule and torture I suffered in these five years trying to conceive count for?