I Will Love You No More

I shut my eyes and did not want to look at him anymore.

“Richard, where are you? Ruby is crying and wants to see you. Can’t you come back and keep us company?”

A delicate voice sounded from the phone, and Richard immediately became uncertain of what he should be doing.

In the end, he looked at me. “I’m going back to check on Ruby, then I’ll come back.”

After Richard left, I took my phone out of my handbag.

I had dozens of missed calls.

I called the person back, and he answered immediately.

“Anna, you finally turned your phone on. I was so worried! What happened? Are you regretting your decision?”

“No. Something unexpected happened, and I had surgery. I’ll come over after I rest for a few days.”

“Why didn’t you tell me? I seriously want to come and pick you up right now. Wait for me.”

I was just about to refuse when the call ended.

At night, Lily sent me texts to boast about her victory.

Aside from a voice recording of Richard promising that he would definitely take care of her and Ruby forever, she sent me pictures of her in Richard’s arms.

The pose was suggestive, and I could smell the intention from the pictures.

I could not be bothered looking through them all and turned off my phone.

I was exhausted and fell into a deep sleep.

When I woke up, it was the next day.

I completed the discharge procedure on my own and went back home, only to find that someone had already occupied my room.

Ruby thrashed my room, and she was fiddling with something.

My breath caught in my throat.

She was holding the locket I had prepared for my aborted baby.

I rushed over and grabbed it. Ruby glared at me. In the next second, she started wailing.

When he heard the racket from my room, Richard rushed in.

Without a word, he threw an expensive necklace at me.

“Enough! Take this as compensation!

“That locket isn’t anything valuable, anyway. Since Ruby likes it, let her play with it for a few days.”

At that, pain filled my heart.

Richard had gotten an old artisan to craft the locket, and our photo was inside. We even got a priest to bless it.

At that time, he said that he would protect our baby, just like he claimed he loved me so much.

In truth, he had given his love away to someone else.

I laughed at myself and smashed the locket into pieces.

“Since the locket didn’t manage to protect my baby, that means this thing is cursed. It’s better to destroy it.

“You don’t want any bad luck on Ruby, do you?”

For some reason, Richard felt frustrated when he heard that, but he could not find any reason to yell at me, so he left with a slam of the door.

Soon, someone opened my door again.

This time, it was not Richard who walked in. It was Lily.

She watched me with a smug look on her face and a victorious grin on her lips.

“Anna, seeing you act like this brings me joy.”

I just glanced at her and could not be bothered to talk to her.

“I can’t help it. Richard loves me. He can set aside everything else for me. Not only did he kill his own baby, but he also abandoned you.”

As if she were sure that I had already seen her Instagram post, she spoke with the intention to provoke. “Richard has never treated you as affectionately as he does me, right? That makes sense. He always told me that you’re like a dead fish in bed. You’re really boring.

“I pity you for having married a man who didn’t love you for five years.”

Then, she pointed at her own neck as she grinned smugly.

She popped off her collar button and revealed more skin. It was covered in hickies.

Did she think I would break down, cry, and rage?