“What?”
Greg’s voice choked. “Kate knows everything. She’s gone…”
I was already on the other side of the world by
that point.
As soon as I got off the plane, I spotted my
best friend, Sarah, whom I hadn’t seen in ages.
After I told her everything, Sarah started
freaking out, ready to fly back home and go to
war with Greg and Ashley.
I held her back. “It’s fine. I left the divorce
く
papers. I just want to forget they exist.”
Sarah hugged me tightly. “It’s for the best.
Getting away from that jerk was the right call.
Who knows what he’d do next. Let him and that
b*tch, Ashley, be miserable. You’re amazing!
You are talented, you know how many directors
were chasing after your scripts in college? If it
wasn’t for Greg you’d be a famous screenwriter
by now!”
My heart sank. Sarah and I had gone to
screenwriting school, and teachers called us
future stars. Sarah was never going to marry,
and went to Australia after graduation. But I got
married to Greg and was pregnant with my first
kid. Greg said he worried about my safety, and
didn’t let me work, asking me to stay home and
have the kid.
That was the start of my nightmare, constantly
being pregnant, and having a miscarriage.
But now, I was finally free.
Sarah said she was working on a project, and
was overloaded. She wanted to work with me, a
50-50 split. I nodded, eager to get back to
く
screenwriting.
“But before that, let’s just have some fun! We
can write anywhere, and I just made a killing on
the last script, so let’s get drunk!”
Travelling around the world, that was our plan
from college. It was finally happening.
While Sarah and I were gallivanting across the
globe, Greg was going crazy trying to find me.
He never missed work, and it had been a while
since he had been to the office.
Mark was about to take over as CEO, trying so
hard to show his grandfather he was the one.
But a few of his projects were run by Greg, and
only Greg had the details. Greg was ignoring all
calls and not going to the office, leaving Mark
looking like a fool.
He made so many wrong calls that his grandpa
yelled at him, putting off his takeover of the
company.
Ashley came to see Greg, wanting him to get
back to work, she had no intention of giving up
being the CEO’s wife.
“Honey, have you still not found Kate?
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Seriously, she has to know when to stop. The
company’s all messed up and it’s making you so
tired…”
“Shut up! I don’t want to hear it. Mark is the
one who can’t run the company, why are you blaming Kate?” Greg screamed.
He never yelled at Ashley, and he certainly
never swore. Ashley looked shocked, pouting as
tears welled up.
“Honey, I’m just worried about you, you don’t
have to yell at me.”
Greg laughed, a chilling sound, “Ashley, you can
drop the act. You’re not scared. You fed off
Kate’s dead children. So why would you be
afraid?”
“What are you talking about? I don’t know what
you mean?” Ashley tried to look confused.
Greg had seen this coming, and showed her the
security footage from his family’s place.
Ashley was so arrogant, she’d forgotten the
camera.
“All these years, you’ve been pretending to be
so sweet in front of me, being so caring to Kate
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in front of my face, and then backstabbing her!
“If you hadn’t said all that crap at the party, I
would never know what a fake you are.
“Because of you, I killed my kids with Kate
again and again, and she’s never going to have
any more children. I was a fool, I get it. But how
could you do that to her? She wasn’t a threat.
Why couldn’t you just leave her alone?!”
Ashley couldn’t lie anymore, and could only
start crying and begging for forgiveness.
“Honey, I had to! I went to a fortune teller, and
he said eating those….was the only way I could
get a boy! Only if I have a boy could I be
secure! I was in a corner!”
“Enough! Your head is filled with your status,
your spot as CEO’s wife! And you never once
cared about Kate! Why would you tell her that I
gave you her babies? You wanted to get rid of her, you wanted me to chase after you!”
“You wanted a son, you want to be the CEO’s
wife. Ashley, I’m going to make you feel what
it’s like to lose what you love the most.”
Greg clapped his hands, and some men in white
coats came into the room, their eyes full of
menace.
Ashley’s eyes were wide with terror. “What are
you doing? I’m your nephew’s wife! The future CEO’s wife, I have your blood in my belly, you can’t do this!”
Greg laughed like the devil. “CEO’s wife? After you chased Kate away? You still think you’ll get that?”
“Take whatever is inside her and get rid of it, and don’t give her any drugs. Then, she’s going
o watch you eat it.”
The men grabbed Ashley, and dragged her
away. Soon, the sound of her screaming filled
the whole house.
When Sarah and I got to Iceland, we fell in love
with the Northern Lights. The stunning beauty
was something that no camera could ever
capture.
