Chapter 6

HAZEL

“Are you being serious, Hazel?”Julieta asked me.

“Yes, continuing this marriage means causing Austin more misery, he doesn’t love me. I tried to make him love me over the years but I failed.”

“Don’t tell me you’ve made up your mind already?”

She looked nervous.

“I have.” I felt a deep pain in my chest as I said those words.

“I won’t agree to it. That woman would ruin Austin. We both know that!”

“Grandma, I’ve tried my best. I can’t do anything else. I guess you might consider agreeing to it if you know that I’m going to give Austin J&G Group.”

Julieta looked shocked to hear that.

“Your family business? You want to give up your family business to Austin? What did they inject you with in this hospital?”

“Grandma, I’m serious. I love Austin and I want to give him all I have.”

“There’s something wrong, Hazel. Something must be wrong with you. What is it? This isn’t you. Talk to me, child.”

I shook my head.”I’m sorry, Grandma. I know you’ve always wanted me to have a child with Austin but I…”

“It’s not your fault. Everything that has happened is his fault.”

Tears filled my eyes.”I actually got pregnant with his baby but…but Austin didn’t want it…”

Austin had caused me so much pain but the loss of the baby was one of the pain that could not be erased from my heart.

“Austin…Austin…how can a grown man be so stupid?!”With that, Julieta stormed off.

Probably to berate him but I felt it was high time she stopped meddling in Austin’s life.

If he makes any decision that favors him or ruins him, he’d be the one to carry the dross anyway.

I changed into my clothes and left the ward.

There was no need for me to donate my heart anymore.

However, a saying goes that enemies were on a narrow road.

I unexpectedly ran into Austin and Sophia in the corridor.

Sophia suddenly screamed and pointed at me.

“You weren’t trying to save me! You were just trying to trick Austin away from me!”

Sophia looked so hurt and vindictive as if she was the wife and I was the mistress.

I didn’t want to argue with her because I had decided to let go of everything.

But Sophia wasn’t having it.

As I walked past her, Sophia grabbed me and told her pushed me.

My head hit the wall behind me and I felt a hot liquid flowing from my nose at the pain.

“Blood.”

I knew without even touching it.

I had been getting nosebleeds lately, it was impossible for me to bleed again because of the push by Sophia.

“Hazel.”Austin let out in a scolding manner.

Sophia was already in his arms and whimpering as if she was the one who was hurt and bleeding.

I was tired of Sophia being a psychopath.

I stared up at Austin and said.

“Come home sometime, I have something to tell you.”

I did not know how to get out of Austin’s sight and leave the hospital. My legs were weak when I got into the car. There was hot fluid gurgling underneath and my face was wet.

There were tears and blood!

After carelessly wiping my face with a tissue, I hurriedly drove home, entered the bathroom, and took off my shirt.

My pants were soaked with blood.

Although bleeding was a sign of advanced cervical cancer, I didn't anticipate it to be this severe.

I threw myself into the bathtub, now I needed warmth and the only thing that could give it to me was the bathwater in the tub.

I fell asleep and dreamt in the bathtub, unsure of whether my body was too tired or if I was exhausted.

I had a dream about a beautiful girl with a ponytail hairstyle and a pink rosette dress.

“What's your name, dear? You're so adorable, can I hold you?" In my dream, I gave the girl a hug.

But the girl in my arms was so cold that it made me shiver.

I let go of her quickly, "What's the matter with you? Are you freezing?"

“You're a terrible mother, you abandoned and killed me," the girl said while pointing a little finger at me with blood streaming from her eyes.

I was so frightened that she fell and woke up.

As the temperature of the water in the tub dropped, I was shivering all over with cold.

But what about the girl in my dream?

The girl said that I abandoned and killed her!

I rinsed herself with water. The accusation of the child in my dream kept going through my mind, and I suddenly thought of the child I was forced to get rid of by Austin three years ago by taking medicine.

Was it that child?

It must be because I never conceived again after that, despite the fact that the miscarriage nearly killed me.

I didn't get a check-up after that. It wasn't until I started bleeding that I went to the hospital, where the doctor told me that what hadn't been removed was still in my uterus, creating inflammation and harming the uterus.

I then had an operation to remove the uterus which was nearly as painful as death by a thousand cuts, and after that, I no longer had regular cycles and bled during intercourse with Austin.

I had always brushed it off as him being too rough with me, so I didn't take it seriously untill I started to bleed a lot.

I then went for a checkup, where I was diagnosed with cervical cancer in an advanced stage.

Austin was to blame for her miscarriage, as well as for my cervical cancer.

Apart from breaking my heart, he had done the same to my body and, most abominably, to my child.

If that child had been kept, he/she would be three years old now.

Austin ruined my life!