My Husband Said His Student Was More Important Than His Pregnant Wife Until I Asked for Divorce novel Chapter 56

Chapter 9

Violet froze, unable to even turn around.

Gabriel stepped inside first, his expression easing slightly once he’d confirmed I was unharmed. Victoria and Preston followed, their eyes sweeping over the chaos, turning ice-cold.

“What is this spectacle?”

The situation was rapidly brought under control.

They stared at me, stunned-probably never imagining they’d see me wield a mop handle like a weapon.

I set it down without a word.

Harley sneered. “Didn’t you say you weren’t coming back? Your word ain’t worth shit!”

The three of them hastily lowered their heads. “Hazel, we’ll handle this.”

Gabriel’s voice was strained. “You… take care. Don’t ever meet people like us again.”

I didn’t bother responding.

Violet, now completely ignored, suddenly screamed. “Why does everyone only look at her the moment she appears? Gabriel, I’m your lawful wife!”

“Don’t forget you were the ones who committed her to St. Jude’s! Stop playing the grieving saints!”

She sobbed, trembling, but the three who’d once doted on her only gave a cold glance-exactly as they’d done

to me.

Gabriel’s voice was frigid. “I warned you not to disturb her.”

“Next time, you won’t be leaving that institution.”

Preston and Victoria watched coldly. No one spoke up for her.

How familiar.

Gabriel’s youth had left him with a morbid obsession with power. So no matter the person, emotion was always mixed with calculation.

He could treat me that way, so naturally he could treat Violet the same now.

As for Victoria and Preston, they always seemed to favor “the broken one”-like Violet when she first came home, like me now, “fallen to the streets.”

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A scream cut through my thoughts.

An aide pointed beneath Violet. “Blood… Mrs. Sterling is bleeding!”

Her light-colored dress was already stained red.

Violet reached for Gabriel, face pale. “Save the baby… Gabriel, Mother, Preston…”

No one took her hand.

Victoria frowned. “Take her to a hospital. We aren’t doctors.”

Gabriel’s expression didn’t even change, as if the bleeding woman wasn’t his wife, the child not his own.

The last light in Violet’s eyes finally went out.

After everyone left, Victoria pushed a velvet box toward me.

Preston’s voice was hoarse. “This was… your wedding set. Back then.”

“Hazel, it’s all we have left to give you.”

I didn’t take it.

They set down the box and left, eyes red.

Gabriel looked at me for a long time, his voice thick. “Call me if you need anything…”

“The only one I ever loved was the girl who carried me home through the snow.”

“I was the one who lost you.”

He stumbled away.

I heard later that the Colonel was K.I.A. during an overseas deployment. His body wasn’t fully recovered.

His wife, hearing the news, overdosed on sleeping pills.

The Vance family slowly faded from the political landscape of The Base.

I didn’t ask for details.

Total estrangement… that was the best ending.

Chapter 9

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