The phone hung up, and he stuffed the flowers
into my arms.
“I have something to do so I’ll leave first.”
The pollen choked me and I coughed several times, and the discomfort swept over my body immediately.
I hurriedly threw the flowers away and took a taxi to the hospital.
After finishing the medicine, I ran into Sarah.
She looked at me bitterly: “Are you really leaving?”
“Yeah.”
“But don’t you like Jake very much? You and him have been married for so many years.”
“I’m not married to him.”
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After all, he hadn’t taken me to get a certificate
after being with him for so many years.
Every time I was looking for an excuse to push
back.
“Well, it’s right to leave.”
“After all, Jake is a scumbag, and he found someone to make an artificial uterus for Tiffany, and now she’s pregnant.”
The news was like a thunderbolt in my head.
Memories of these years kept flashing in my mind.
Every time I got pregnant, Jake would ask me to get rid of it.
Some people are willing to pay a lot for wanting
to have children with you.
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Some people ask you to have abortions again
and again because they don’t want to have children with you.
My heart would never beat for Jake again.
I went straight to the airport and received a cal
from Jake before boarding the plane.
“Lindsey, there’s something I want to tell you…”
“There’s nothing to say between us.”
I interrupted him.
“Jake, I’m gone and will never come back, I wish you and Tiffany happiness.”
I came to South Ossetia and settled down.
There are many people who are suffering here.
I am responsible for recording these things
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every day, compiling them into videos, and publishing them on international news websites.
I used to think that romance was important.
Now that I have seen these tragedies, I only think that life is the most important.
- 8.
After Lindsey hung up the phone, Jake froze.
He was going to tell Lindsey that Tiffany was pregnant.
Let her accept Tiffany’s pregnancy.
But she said those few words just now.
He kept thinking about what Lindsey said just
now.
She was leaving, and she wished him and
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Let her accept Tiffany’s pregnancy.
But she said those few words just now.
994
He kept thinking about what Lindsey said just
now.
She was leaving, and she wished him and
Tiffany happiness.
Thinking of this, he couldn’t hold on any longer.
Lindsey seemed really angry this time.
He hurriedly drove to the newspaper office.
As soon as he entered the door, he found the
boss and grabbed his collar.
“Where’s Lindsey, where did she go?”
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I could practically feel Jake’s rage simmering through the phone line. He was pissed that I’d left, and I think, scared that I was gone for
good.
The editor’s voice trembled as he said, “I… I don’t know where she went.”
“Tell me or I’ll shut down this entire operation!”
I didn’t doubt he would. Jake’s family had deep
pockets.
The editor finally caved. “Lindsey’s a freelance war correspondent in South Ossetia. This was her choice. Not my fault, Mr. Harrison.”
The words hit Jake like a punch in the gut.
South Ossetia?
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How could Lindsey go to a place like that?
She’d said just the other day that she wouldn’t
go, that she was too afraid to die!
“Lindsey, you lied to me!”
Jake was losing it.
He knew South Ossetia better than anyone.
His mom had died there, caught in the
crossfire, her body never recovered.
He couldn’t understand why Lindsey would
choose a place like that!
- 9.
Jake tried to tell himself that it wasn’t real, that
Lindsey hadn’t actually left.
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Because he didn’t want to believe that Lindsey,
who’d always loved him so much, who’d always
been so obedient, would actually leave him.
So, he raced home, searching every room for
her.
But she wasn’t there.
Only Tiffany was home.
“Ah!”
Tiffany suddenly screamed.
“Jake, I broke a glass! Can you come help me?”
Walking into the living room, Jake saw Tiffany
standing there, her eyes red, surrounded by
shards of glass.
