Dangerous Love: You Are My One and Only Bride novel Chapter 1554

What could she possibly not dare to say? Arianne casually said, “You can tell me if you want to. I’m listening. There couldn’t be anything that you wouldn’t dare to say. I’m sure it’s nothing terrible, is it? I truly hope that you’d feel better with a peace of mind once you’ve gotten rid of everything from your chest. Frankly, you’ve got a really strange personality—you’re truly kind and sweet when you’re in a good mood, but anyone would have to be very careful around you when you’re in a bad mood.”

Shelly shook her head. “Alright, enough of this. Mark brought me to the hospital for my checkup and to get an X-ray scan this morning. He should be retrieving the report this afternoon. I really hope that my leg will heal, or otherwise, I can only rely on Mark to carry me around for the rest of my life. I don’t want to become a burden to him.

Mark returned home with Shelly’s report in his hands after 1 PM. He headed straight to his bedroom with a dark expression and asked Arianne to follow him as well.

Arianne thought that it was strange but followed him anyway. When she closed the door, Mark threw Shelly’s X-ray results on the floor. “Aunt Shelly has fractured her body in the past. Furthermore, it’s not just one fracture; she has several fractures that had been inflicted at different times. Although neither of her injuries were enough to cripple her, she has damaged her bones. Do you know how painful that would be? I suspect that she was tormented most of the time during her marriage. Due to her last accident, I asked the doctor to conduct a complete body checkup on her. The result shows that other than a few fractures on her bones, she is almost deaf in her left ear. The doctor suspects that she has been beaten up badly in the past. However, she’s been pretending like nothing’s wrong with her all this time. Moreover… her uterus has been badly injured. That means it’s not that she doesn’t want to have a child, but that she can’t. I only just found out how badly injured she is; it’s inhumane… especially the knife wound on her abdomen. It seems like that stab had directly injured her uterus.”

Arianne picked up the test report from the floor and studied it in detail. Mark was right; it was an X-ray of her skeleton, and all the details were in there. When Arianne had helped to wipe down Shelly at the hospital previously, she had not removed Shelly’s garments to wipe off the rest of the area. However, Arianne would occasionally see a few scars, once in a while, though she would heed no attention to them. This was because Shelly had very fair skin and her injuries were so old that they were mostly faded, which would not attract attention.

If that were true, why did Shelly wait until her husband had passed away before returning to the country? It was no longer the old era where women were expected to stay with their spouses until the day they died. Based on Shelly’s character, she would most definitely ask for a divorce if she had been domestically abused. She hadn’t bore a child and had nothing to tie her down, especially money, since she had even refused to receive her rightful inheritance.