Chapter 4

But because we were together and I was already getting dividends from the company, I never pressed her for them.

"Will, are you really going to be this cruel to me?"

"Everything you just asked for is incredibly cruel to me."

"Even if it's Brooks's child, you could still raise it as your own!"

"And no, I can't fire Brooks. He's brought in so many contracts lately. You're nowhere near as good as him!"

I'm not as good as him?

I laughed, tears streaming down my face. "Then what more is there to say?"

I turned and walked away.

Behind me, I heard my son's cries and my family's accusations of me being unfilial.

I returned home, grabbed my luggage, and headed out.

I went to a hotel to check in.

After I registered, the receptionist said, "Sir, your card payment failed."

I tried other payment methods, but none worked.

Then I received a message from Sarah.

"Will, are you having trouble paying?"

"As long as you don't divorce me and don't force me to fire Brooks, you can buy anything you want."

Before, she'd asked me to give her my salary card.

Then she'd give me an allowance each month.

At the time, I didn't think much of it, believing it would strengthen our relationship.

I never imagined it was a way to control me.

Unable to pay, I had no choice but to leave the hotel.

The streets were bustling with people, but I had nowhere to go.

I took my luggage and went to a park.

"Will, Sarah sent me to pick you up and bring you home."

I hadn't been sitting long when Brooks, driving Sarah's brand new Rolls-Royce convertible, pulled up to the park entrance and walked over to me.

I gave him a cold glance but said nothing.

Brooks, seeing no one else around, smirked triumphantly. "Know why she's pregnant?"

"That day, she and I were meeting a client. On the way, I tried to kiss her."

"She was actually going to let me."

"But then, your call came in at just the wrong time."

"She talked to you and pushed me away."

"I was annoyed, so that night, I deliberately invited colleagues to get her drunk. Then, as usual, I took her to a hotel."

"In bed, I held her, and she thought it was you. She kept calling your name."

"I answered, saying, 'How about I take good care of you?'"

"I took the chance to undo her clothes, and then we made love."

Brooks bent over laughing.

"You probably don't know this, but while she was enjoying herself, she kept calling your name."

"It's pretty funny, having an affair with another man, but calling out her husband's name inside."

"But for me, it was incredibly satisfying."

I lunged and punched him!

Brooks's lip was bleeding as he fell to the ground.

"Will, he was trying to bring you home, and you hit him?"

"Daddy, Brooks bought me a toy car, why did you hit him?"

Sarah walked over with Leo.

Leo, clutching his toy car, shielded Brooks, calling me a bad dad.

I suddenly understood.

Brooks had done this on purpose.

What chilled me to the bone wasn't Sarah, but my son's attitude.

Sarah looked at me. "After you left this morning, Leo cried and refused to go to school. So Brooks took him to the children's park all morning and even bought him a toy car."

"Later, he was worried something might happen to you, so he said he'd come pick you up."

"He had good intentions, and you beat him up like this?"

Hearing this, Brooks said weakly, "Sarah, my face really hurts."

Sarah tenderly stroked his face, then helped him up.

"Apologize to him right now!"