I Walked Away And He Lost His Mind (Zephyra and Steven) novel Chapter 578

Steven threw me onto the bed. I landed on the soft mattress, staring at him in disbelief as my mind exploded.

“Steven, you dare!”

I struggled to sit up, my chest heaving with a mixture of rage and panic, my voice trembling. “I would have a child with a beggar before I’d have one with you! If you dare force me, I will kill you!”

The child I lost in my past life was a constant, immense pain in my heart, a nightmare I dared not revisit.

At first, I had just wanted a child to save my failing marriage. But once I was pregnant, I cherished that baby more than anything, even more than Steven. After the first trimester, when the pregnancy was stable, I wouldn’t even let him touch me.

He was the one who had shamelessly coaxed and tricked me into bed.

Sometimes I thought that if we couldn't make it to the end, I could still live a good life as long as I had my child by my side.

But the baby was gone, Horace was gone, and Steven was my only tie left. Yet, just after I was recovering from the miscarriage, Steven brought up divorce, wanting to be with Verna. How could a man like that ever deserve to be my child’s father again?

Steven loomed over me. I fought back with all my strength, but whether it was the drug or not, the more I moved, the hotter I felt, and the weaker I became.

With one hand, he pinned both of my hands above my head. His devastatingly handsome face was inches from mine, his eyes locked on me, his smile a cold, mocking sneer as he pronounced my sentence word by word.

“Unfortunately, the father of your child—will only ever be me.”

“You don’t have to lie anymore, I know everything! It’s fine when you start the fight, but it’s a crime when I retaliate? What a joke! What kind of logic is that in this world? You asked if we could be together, right? Well, I’m telling you now, we can’t! In my eyes, you’re a ruthless animal who will do anything to get what you want. How can a human and a beast ever be together?!”

“An animal?” Steven’s eyelids lifted, and he suddenly laughed, a low, drawn-out sound that made me wonder if he’d gone mad with rage. He looked down at me.

“Yes, I did it. The thing with your brother. I didn’t want to be so ruthless, but you were being so disobedient, Zephyra. When we got married, I told you I don’t do divorce. I told you to think it over carefully before you married me. You said you wanted to marry me. I didn’t care if you were being sincere or just placating me. I took you at your word, so it had to be real.”

“We’ve been married for barely a year, and you’re already trying every trick in the book to divorce me, even ruining your own reputation and trying to marry Horace… Zephyra, who do you think you’re dealing with? Let me make it clear—in this world, the only man you can marry is me. And only I can possess you.”

“If the Lopez family gets in my way, I will eliminate them one by one until you have no one to protect you, nowhere to go, no way to escape, and you have no choice but to obediently stay by my side and walk with me through the life we agreed upon—”