Chapter 3

I had my lawyer draft a divorce agreement.

Landon would leave the marriage with nothing. Not a penny of what he'd earned over these years.

I took the divorce agreement to Landon's office.

On the way, I received a call from my assistant.

"Mrs. Cross, something terrible has happened! Mr. Cross brought a construction team. He says he's going to dig up your first child's body. He wants a priest to perform an exorcism."

After hanging up, my hands were shaking.

Once, Landon and I built a cemetery for our deceased daughter, Nina, wanting to give her a sheltered home underground.

Now we had become a bitter couple, but why should adult grudges involve innocent children?

When I arrived at the cemetery, Nina's coffin had been carelessly thrown on the ground.

Several priests stood around, praying.

I spotted Landon immediately. He was holding Chloe, tucking her messy hair behind her ear.

At first glance, they looked exactly like Landon and me seven years ago.

Suppressing the rage in my heart, I clutched Nina's coffin to my chest.

The priests suddenly stopped chanting and pointed at the coffin in my arms, shouting sternly. "It's this evil spirit that has prevented Mrs. Cross from having children for years!"

Chloe nestled in Landon's arms, adding fuel to the fire. "The master is right!"

Landon frowned but didn't stop them.

The priest then splashed holy water at me, instantly soaking my white clothes.

But fortunately, I protected Nina's coffin well. It didn't get wet.

I wiped the water droplets from my face and looked at Landon.

He avoided my gaze, saying only in a deep voice, "I'm doing this for your own good."

I found everything absurdly ridiculous.

I pulled out the divorce agreement from my document bag and threw it directly in Landon's face.

"Sign it."

Landon looked as if he'd heard something unbelievable.

"You're actually willing to divorce me? We once had a child together. We're already inseparable.

"When Chloe's daughter is born, I'll have her call you mom, to make up for the child we lost..."

I closed my eyes. When I opened them again, they were cold and desolate.

"Landon, of all your mistakes, you should never have kept using our child to provoke me."

I waved my hand. The Lowell family bodyguards behind me immediately understood.

They restrained Chloe. Those burly men kicked her belly with every strike.

Chloe screamed. Soon blood appeared.

Landon's eyes turned blood-red. He snatched the divorce agreement, signed his name without even looking, scrawling rapidly.

"Let her go!"

I clapped my hands together and laughed gleefully.

I wondered if this penniless man could afford to raise his seven children after the divorce.