Chapter 5

After carefully checking my pulse, a gleam of delight flashed in Melissa’s eyes.

“Ethan, Clara is so shameless—coming here pregnant, trying to get back together with you.”

Melissa’s words made Ethan explode with rage.

His eyes turned bloodshot as he grabbed my hair. “You bitch! Pregnant with some bastard’s child and you dare say you didn’t do anything to betray me?”

Ethan raised his hand. Slaps rained down on my face like a storm.

“I actually felt guilty and wanted to make it up to you, and you dare humiliate me like this?”

I endured the pain and shouted, “The child is yours! I was only gone for sixteen minutes. There’s no way I could be pregnant with someone else’s child.”

I told the truth not to win Ethan back, but to prove my innocence.

Mine?!” Ethan laughed maniacally. “You’ve been pregnant for six years—what kind of monster is that?”

He lifted his foot to kick my stomach when Melissa rushed forward to stop him.

“Ethan, Clara says she was abducted by aliens for sixteen minutes and the baby is yours. Let’s go to the hospital and expose her lies, then send her to a mental institution.”

Ethan directly grabbed my arm and hauled me up from the ground.

“Clara, you say the child is mine, that you were abducted by aliens for sixteen minutes? Fine, I’ll give you a chance to prove it.”

I stumbled as he shoved me into the car.

Soon we arrived at the hospital where Melissa worked. Ethan threw me onto a pre-arranged operating table.

The next second, a thin needle pierced through my skin. The dull, aching pain spread, pulling at every nerve in my abdomen until they trembled.

I could hear Melissa’s excited voice in my ear. “Ethan, I already talked to my colleague in the lab. Results will be ready in half an hour. The people from the mental institution will be here soon too.”

The pain made me close my eyes. Ethan dragged me down from the bed.

He turned on his phone camera and pointed it at me.

“You bitch, tell everyone where you went to fool around with men after you left me. How did you come back pregnant with a bastard?”

His eyes seemed poisoned with venom.

“Do you know how worried I was when you disappeared?”

“I even neglected Melissa for several days looking for you...”

Melissa’s sobbing interrupted Ethan. “That’s when I lost our second child.”

Ethan comforted her gently.

“Don’t be sad, Melissa. We’ll make Clara give you back a child.”

His cold hand slid across my face. “You’re my woman for life. The bastard you’re carrying must die immediately, or I’ll be disgusted.”

“Ethan, the child really is yours. You can’t hurt her.”

I looked at him through my tears.

No matter what, the child was innocent.

But Ethan just sneered. “Feeling guilty? Or can’t bear to part with it?”

“The bastard has to die eventually. Rather than wait for the test results and have a doctor kill it, I might as well do it myself.”

He suddenly grabbed my chin and forced a pill down my throat.

I knelt on the ground, clutching my body and dry heaving.

Nothing came up, but my abdomen was already cramping with waves of pain.

Melissa laughed. “Clara, This is my family's homemade abortifacient It’s very painful, but very effective.”

I curled up on the ground. The black crystal stone slipped from my pocket.

I stared at it intently.

“They must suffer a hundred times the pain I’m suffering.”

Just then, a young nurse hurried over. “Melissa, the test results are back. The child really is Ethan’s.”

“What... what did you say?”

Ethan’s hands trembled as he took the test report from the nurse.

“Could it be... was everything Clara said true?”

Melissa’s pupils dilated. “The aliens are real, the wishing stone is real too. We’re...”

An urgent phone ring interrupted Melissa’s words.

Ethan quickly answered. His assistant’s terrified shout came through the phone.

“Ethan... something terrible has happened at the company.”