Chapter 2

Alexander kissed Sophia's fingers tenderly, his eyes full of affection.

"Heaven opened its eyes. Leaving her allowed me to meet you, someone truly worth spending a lifetime with."

Their intimate gestures stung my eyes, making my chest tighten.

I pulled my coat tighter, preparing to leave with a cold expression.

As I took a step, Sophia stuck out her foot and tripped me.

I stumbled, and birth control pills and condoms fell out of my bag.

Alexander instinctively reached out to help me, but quickly withdrew his hand.

Sophia covered her mouth in mock surprise:

"Why are you carrying these things around?"

Alexander's attention was drawn to the items on the ground.

He picked up the birth control pills with a gloomy face, looking at me hatefully.

He threw them at me.

"Emily Collins, have you no shame? Are you willing to degrade yourself like this for money?"

"Is money really that important to you? Important enough to become such a promiscuous woman?"

I looked at his tailored suit and the luxury watch on his wrist.

Bending down to pick up the items from the ground, I smiled:

"Of course it's important! Why don't you support my business, Mr. Hayes? Help me earn some more money."

Sophia looked at me with feigned surprise, her eyes gleaming with schadenfreude.

"How can you, as a woman, say such things? You have hands and feet, can't you earn money to support yourself?"

"Alex... if she hadn't left you back then, we wouldn't have met."

"Her thinking is really extreme. No matter what, she was someone you once loved. Why don't we help her find a job?"

These words reminded Alexander of how I had abandoned him for money when he was in dire straits years ago.

Alexander's face turned cold.

"She doesn't deserve it!"

He took Sophia's hand and turned to leave.

Before leaving, Sophia looked back at me, her eyes curved in a smile full of malice and mockery.

I stood there expressionless, stuffing the birth control pills and condoms back into my bag.

I watched them leave.

My eyes began to water, their silhouettes becoming blurry.

After a long while, I crouched down, burying my head in my arms.

I wiped the tears from the corners of my eyes and opened my phone.

There were several missed calls from Victor.

The wounds on my body still ached dully.

Alexander still didn't know.

The funding for his company... I had exchanged my body for it.