Ex-Husband Begone novel Chapter 4

Emery was also a bit upset. “Mom, Krista is Dad’s aunt, and that makes her my great aunt. She’s here as a guest. It’s not too much to ask you to clean up a room for her, is it?”

Bethany was heartbroken.

Her son, whom she had carried for ten months and raised with all her love and care, was talking to her like that!

When she got home in the afternoon, she couldn’t stop thinking about what would happen to Emery if she died.

She was all about planning his future.

But after just one meeting with Krista, he was already leaning toward her.

Clearly, Bethany had been overthinking it.

Neither Terrence nor Emery needed her anymore.

Sensing the tension in the air, Krista handed Emery to Terrence and said softly, “Gotta go. I’ll come to see Emery tomorrow.”

Krista grabbed her suitcase and turned to leave.

Emery started crying. “Krista, don’t go!”

Terrence glanced at Bethany with a complicated look in his eyes. “Beth, you’re out of line!”

With that, he pushed Emery into her arms, and she took the little one without thinking.

He followed Krista out.

In the seven years she had been married to him, she had never seen him so anxious.

Bethany was still in a daze when Emery wriggled and cried out, “Put me down! Put me down!”

She had no choice but to put Emery down.

Emery pushed her away. “You’re bad! You made Krista leave!”

Then he stormed off into his room in a huff.

Bethany felt her heart come apart, piece by piece.

Eliza wanted to comfort her but didn’t know what to say.

Bethany walked into the master bedroom with a blank look on her face.

She was thinking if she’d never get the chance to bring up divorce. If it were fate, she would leave quietly.

She put the medicine the doctor had given her earlier into her bag. As she opened her bag, she saw a bank card in the card slot.

It had a total of 9.9 million dollars on it.

It was the money Terrence had given her in chunks of 300 thousand dollars each time he wanted her to stay out of sight, adding up over time.

But she had used up more than half of it.

She hadn’t spent it carelessly. The part she had used went towards something meaningful.

Bethany couldn’t figure it out. Terrence was the one who wanted to marry her, but then he looked down on her for being mute and wanted a secret marriage.

She wanted to ask him about it many times, but she couldn’t get the words out.

She couldn’t bear to leave him or their son.

She took good care of Emery and kept the house clean.

For seven whole years, her life was all about Terrence and Emery.

She hardly ever thought about herself.

Now, she had cancer and only six months left.

All her hard work felt like it was for nothing.

Just then, Bethany’s phone rang out of the blue.

She took it out. It was a call from Terrence’s grandpa, Randy McConnell.

Since she couldn’t speak, Randy didn’t contact her much. Over those seven years, he had been nicer to her than most others.

She answered the phone.

“Where’s Terrence?”

Realizing that Bethany couldn’t answer him, Randy added, “If he’s there, tap on the phone, okay?”

Bethany didn’t do it as he said.

His voice got deeper. “After seven years of marriage to Terrence and giving him a son, can’t you make him fall in love with you?”

Bethany’s fingers went rigid.