Chapter 4

The moment I woke up at the hospital, I saw Sylvia as well as Aiden's parents crowding around me. But Aiden was nowhere to be found. He hadn't gone missing, yet he refused to pick up anyone's calls. His father, Charles Lambert, was so furious that he was trembling all over. "That disrespectful punk! How dare he hang up on me!" His mother, Fiona Strode, was already tearing up due to her anxiety. "Where on earth did Aiden go? Arguing is one thing, but how could he just ditch Elle on the road like that?" Sylvia suggested coldly, "Elle, you might as well file a police report. What Aiden did is considered hit-and-run." "No! Don't call the police! You mustn't do that!" Panicking, Fiona quickly grabbed my hands and begged, "Elle, please don't be rash about this! If Aiden receives a heavy sentence, it'll affect everyone's reputation!" Sylvia merely sneered at Fiona. She was about to speak up when a nurse summoned her out of the ward to give her medical instructions. That left only Charles, Fiona, and me in the ward. I gently pulled my hand away from Fiona's. "Mom, I'm sorry, but this is the last time I'll ever call you my mother-in-law. The truth is, Aiden and I are about to get a divorce." Shocked, Fiona quickly exchanged glances with Charles, who was equally flabbergasted. "How could things come to this point, Elle? I thought you and Aiden had always been close! I know that Aiden can be willful at times and doesn't care about your feelings, but he's still a good guy at heart! You've known each other for almost a decade—you should know him the best!" She said Aiden was a good guy at heart. Charles and Fiona all thought Aiden was merely being willful and that he was still good in nature. That was why they expected me to tolerate him and wait for him to change his ways. But in the end, I was the only one left bruised and battered. "You don't know where Aiden is, right? I know where he is." I pulled out my phone and tapped on Eve's social media feed. Then, I showed it to Charles and Fiona. Eve's latest post featured nine aesthetically pleasant photos of her and Aiden. The caption read, "We look like a lovey-dovey couple on an outing in these photos!" Eve was a cute and petite young woman. In the photos, she could be seen smiling sweetly at the camera. Meanwhile, Aiden easily towered over her, looking at her with love and affection in his eyes. Both of them were standing very closely and intimately with each other before the amusement park's decorative castle. The photos made them look like the stars of a romantic fairy tale. Fiona went pale instantly. As for Charles, he called the family's driver, George White, and ordered him to head over to Eve's place and bring Aiden back. The atmosphere in the ward turned silent and tense. Fiona tried to advise me, "Elle, we've treated you like our own daughter ever since you married Aiden. When he comes here, we'll teach him a lesson for you. We promise he won't ever bully you again. "Please give him another chance, Elle. It's our fault for spoiling him since he was a kid. Even now, he still acts like one!" I lowered my gaze in response. "Mrs. Lambert, if your own daughter were in my shoes, would you also advise her to forgive her husband? I'm still my parents' daughter, you know. They might be dead, but that doesn't mean they didn't love me." Flabbergasted, Fiona couldn't say anything else. She turned to look at Charles pleadingly, only to see him shake his head and sigh heavily. At that moment, the ward door was kicked open from the outside. Aiden stomped into the room angrily a second later. "Noelle Osmond, you really are something! To think that you even got my parents to put on an act with you! Didn't you sound tough when you demanded the divorce earlier? Are you regretting your decision now? Is that why you've been looking for me everywhere? "Well, it's already far too late! Where's your divorce agreement? Give it to me right now so that I can sign it!" After that, Aiden threw a bouquet of white lilies in my face. "Aiden Lambert!" both Charles and Fiona shouted. Aiden turned to them and said, "Mom, Dad, stop acting already! How dare that Noelle bitch—" He didn't even get to finish his sentence when he was rendered shell-shocked by my condition. I kept coughing violently as sweat rolled down my forehead. At the same time, I clutched my chest, looking as though I was drowning with no hope in sight. Thankfully, Sylvia happened to return to the ward and saw me in danger. She cursed out loud before bolting over to open the window. As she pulled me into her arms, she yelled at Aiden angrily, "Don't you know Noelle's allergic to pollen? Will you only be happy once she dies in your hands?" Aiden could only remain rooted to the spot with shock written all over his face. As he stared at the red rashes sprouting on my face from the allergy, all he could feel was panic. He mumbled, "I… I didn't mean to do it… I didn't know…" He didn't know I was allergic to pollen, yet he knew Eve's period cycle very well. My condition slowly improved. Only then did Sylvia release me. She walked over to Aiden before slapping him twice in the face. Fiona tried to stop Sylvia, but she hesitated upon noticing the latter's emotional breakdown. That was when Sylvia threw a stack of reports at Aiden' face. "Take a good look at these! Noelle suffered major blood loss because of her ectopic pregnancy! She just had her Fallopian tubes removed in surgery! "You were the one who dragged her across the road for a long distance! Do you even have any conscience left? What you did is no different from murder!" Aiden picked up the reports. He began trembling violently as he read them.