Chapter 1
“Send your wife to prison. She needs a lesson,” said Nadine Lambert, Jericho Bowman’s mistress.
Driven by her manipulation, Jericho and his son, Kashton Bowman, had Romina Sandoval imprisoned, subjecting her to three years of brutal torture.
On the day of Romina’s release, Jericho and Kashton came to the prison to meet her.
She looked up, her gaze landing on the two men standing in front of her.
Jericho met her gaze.
He was instantly stunned.
What happened to Romina these past three years?
She had lost so much weight.
Gone was her radiant confidence. He found himself staring at a gaunt, trembling stranger.
How could this be? He had pulled some strings to make sure she was well taken care of in prison…
Was she … faking it?
As scenes from three years ago flashed across his mind, his expression turned indifferent again.
So what if she had been tortured in there?
She brought this all upon herself.
His icy tone showed no guilt at all. “Get in the car. After three years, I suppose you’ve learned your lesson. You should know better than picking on Nadine from now on.”
Kashton was stunned, too.
In his memory, Romina was so beautiful.
She had been luminous and radiant, her smile breathtakingly gentle.
Who… was this woman? He could barely recognize her.
A while later, he came back to his senses, putting on an icy expression. “Daddy’s right. Nadi’s nice, so she forgave you. But, Mommy, if you try to hurt her again, Daddy and I will never forgive you.”
“Forgive me?”
Romina’s expression stayed blank. After quite a while, she scoffed, a trace of pain and mockery flickering in her eyes,
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“Kashton, I’m your mother. You and your father sent me to jail. Who gave you the right to talk of forgiving me?”
Before her stood the two men she’d once loved most in this world, the same ones who’d put her behind bars three
years ago.
Jericho had saved her life. From that very moment, she became obsessed with him.
The Bowman family was nothing compared to the Sandoval family back then, yet she was set to marry him at any cost-defying her mother, abandoning her own family, and leaving with all the money and resources she had.
After marrying him, she abandoned her career to play the perfect wife. Day after day, she buried herself in domestic drudgery, letting her gift for naturopathy wither away.
With all the sacrifices she had made, she thought, at the very least, she deserved Jericho’s respect. However, he re- mained perpetually cold and indifferent.
His attitude toward her affected Kashton, who grew up showing her neither affection nor respect. His most repeated line was, “Mommy, you don’t even have a job. You have no right to tell me what to do.”
She used to think Jericho and Kashton were born cold.
Until Jericho’s unforgettable love, Nadine, came back to the country.
In front of her, his usual icy composure melted away. When he smiled, the outer corners of his eyes tilted upward, and the frost in his gaze was all gone.
For the first time, she realized he could smile this gently.
On their wedding anniversary, her postpartum complications flared up, and she felt the abdominal pain was tearing
her in half.
Unable to bear it anymore, she called Jericho for help, only to be rejected by him simply because he was celebrating Nadine’s birthday…
Later, she barely survived the operation, where critical condition notices were issued multiple times. However, Jeri- cho and Kashton didn’t even bother to show up.
After she was discharged and returned home, what came into her view was a messy home, her sulking son, and her in- different husband.
Kashton even complained, “What kind of Mommy are you? You were gone for so long! Shouldn’t you be at home, cleaning? Look around-see how messy it is? You’re so irresponsible. Nadi is so much better than you.”
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Cleaning?
