“What?!”
Beatrice visibly panicked. She looked at Nathan in shock. “Didn’t you two get intimate the last time she visited you?”
“Harriet never came to meet me!” Nathan pointed at my belly and said, “That’s an
illegitimate child!”
Beatrice burst into tears. “Oh, my God! What’s happening?”
She trembled as she approached me. “You witch! You piece of trash!
“Nathan treated you so well. I even took care of you in every possible way when I found out you were pregnant. How dare you carry someone else’s baby?!”
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Beatrice pointed at me and shouted, “I always knew you weren’t good enough for him, you witch! Nathan graduated from a top university. I didn’t agree with him when he said he wanted to marry you, but he was determined. Even with your parents dead, he still wanted to
marry you.
“He treated you so well. How could you do this to him?!”
She eventually collapsed and began sobbing loudly. “Oh God, how could my family get such a daughter–in–law?!”
The crowd around us slowly began to distance themselves from me.
“How could someone do this? She cheated, got pregnant by another man, and even made her mother–in–law take care of her!”
“Cheaters deserve to die!”
“That poor old lady! She was fooled by that loose woman!”
Nathan tried to pull Beatrice up, but she only cried louder. “Nathan, I deserve to die. It’s my fault that I didn’t keep an eye on her..
“I was foolish enough to care for her throughout her pregnancy.‘
“Who’s the father of the baby?” Nathan demanded as he glared at me.
I watched Beatrice’s act as if it were a show. But when Nathan asked me that question, I felt a little irritated. “Who are you calling a cheater?”
Nathan slapped me across the face again. Then, he grabbed my hair and gripped my neck with another hand.
I struggled to breathe. I clung to his hand and tried to pry it off. But because I was pregnant, I was not strong enough to get him off me.
