If Esther didn't return on time, the children would get worried.
Bradley scoffed. "Esther, did you ever consider Felix when you agreed to marry Chadwick?"
Esther's smile turned bitter, her voice distant. "If it weren't for you, would I have been forced to marry him?"
Bradley snorted. "So?"
"If it weren't for me, you'd be dead now!" she cried.
Why couldn't Bradley see that her actions were for his sake? She just hoped he would survive.
"Well, then I should thank you for putting this noose around my neck personally!" he quipped.
Esther's heart turned to ashes as she thought of how meticulously Bradley had treated Mandy and realized she had given birth to his children yet received none of his affection.
She didn't want to see Bradley anymore, so she closed her eyes and lay down.
Maybe this was her fate.
Seeing Esther ignore him, Bradley noticed her pride and instructed his servant, "Get lunch ready."
"Yes, Mr. Warner."
Bradley picked a movie and enjoyed his meal while watching it leisurely. The aroma of food filled the air, wafting through the cracks in the coffin, reaching Esther's nose.
Esther's stomach growled loudly at the wrong time. She quickly covered it and mentally reassured herself, 'I'm not hungry, I'm not hungry, I'm not hungry.'
"Mmph! Ugh!"
Esther opened her eyes in pain. She looked at Bradley in terror, and her fragmented voice escaped from his kiss. "What... are you… doing?"
Bradley gripped Esther's jaw with one hand and brutally replied, "It's your wedding day today."
Esther had a sudden memory of their wedding night.
Back then, Bradley had been reluctant to marry her, and he hadn't even bothered with his responsibilities as a husband on that night. Instead, he had told her he wouldn't be intimate with her and suggested she handle Thomas' questions herself.
She realized she had been quite naive back then. She had been so happy to marry her true love that she was unaware that the inescapable tie between them would never be severed from that day on.
"Consummating the marriage!" Bradley replied.
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don't read at all. horrible story, makes me sick....