Leo’s mouth jerked upon hearing this. His eyes became so bloodshot it looked like they would bleed.
“Are you trying to get on my nerves by pulling a prank like this? Is one slap not good enough for you? I can give you a couple more slaps if you want! Listen up, I’ll give you a divorce if that’s what you want! Even if Dianne came begging this time, I am still going to divorce you no matter what!”
I couldn’t stand it anymore and shouted back at him, “Sure! I’d love to get divorced! And for the record, Dianne won’t have to waste her energy pleading with you anymore! Thanks to your complete neglect, she died of kidney failure! If you won’t believe me, go ahead and ask at the hospital. They will tell you that everything I just said is true!”
Leo narrowed the look in his eyes and fixed a prolonged look on me.
After a few seconds, he reached for his phone with trembling hands.
Before he could even make the call, Rosette ended up calling him. He immediately picked up as if that was the exact thing he had been waiting for.
Rosette’s voice came through the other end of the phone and she sounded like she had been crying.
“Leo, I think I caught a cold. I feel awful, I’m not going to die, am I? Would you stay by my side?”
“Alright, I’ll be there right away, don’t overthink it, alright? The doctor says you will recover just fine.”
Then, he hung up before glaring at me. “I’m not going to believe anything you say. We will settle what happens with Dianne after her birthday.”
With that, he turned around and slammed the door shut.
I thought about Dianne’s eighteenth birthday party that I had been preparing for the last three months. The thought that she would never get to join the party made me shed tears again.
It was a party that she had been particularly excited about. It was supposed to be held at a beautiful field right next to a lake, and the theme of the party was fashioned after one of her favorite castles in a fairy tale.
I wanted to give her everything she wanted. How could I not?
