Filed To Story: The Scarlet Vengeance: Justice of a Framed Beauty Novel (Grace & Jason)
“There’s a difference!” Kyla ran forward and held Martin Weiss’s hand. “I don’t want a divorce. I don’t want to sign the divorce agreement.”
Martin Weiss froze instantly. He turned around and looked at Kyla with shock. “You don’t want a divorce?”
“Yes,” she answered affirmatively.
His eyes were dark. Moments later, he sneered. “In that case, do you want to continue being Mrs.
Weiss for a while more? What is it about this time? Last time, you wanted to be Mrs. Weiss because you didn’t want your child to be born a bastard. This time, do you want to stay married for a while more because the baby will be discriminated against if her parents are divorced?”
Kyla widened her eyes and looked at Martin Weiss in disbelief.
She never expected him to think that way.
“Then when are you planning on getting divorced? Two years? Three years? Five years? Ten years?”
He looked at her as if amused. Then, he said, “Kyla, I have no interest in playing such marriage games with you. You can suggest any terms for the divorce, but there’s no way we’re not getting a divorce!”
If they stayed married, she would only erode his life further.
Perhaps he would have a mental breakdown one day.
She quickly explained, “It’s… It’s not like that! Martin Weiss, I don’t want a divorce because… I love you!”
She finally said these three words to him.
Those three long-lost words!
She had often said these three words to him when they were younger but stopped afterward. She thought she would never say those words to him again. It was because they were unsuitable for each other. With all the enmity they had, maybe splitting up was the best choice.
However, she said it now. She revealed her true feelings.
“You love me?” he muttered.
She said, “Yes, I love you. Martin Weiss, I love you. I don’t want to divorce you, and it’s not about the kids. I just want to spend the rest of my life with you.”
“You love me?” He suddenly laughed. “Kyla, did you say you love me? If I remember correctly, it was only less than half a year ago when you said you wanted me to stop bothering you and break up with me for good. We were at the hospital then. I begged you to give me a chance to start over. But you said you didn’t love me, didn’t you?”
His words poked her heart like a sharp sword.
“Yes… I did say that. I didn’t recognize my feelings at the time,” Kyla admitted.
B Gifts onvict!
“So, you recognized your feelings in less than six months? Do you really think you’ve fallen in love with a man you didn’t even love not so long ago? Kyla, do you believe such lies?” He retorted.
She quickly explained, “It’s not a lie. It’s true. I thought I loved you too little and that you loved me too much. I was afraid you might become miserable if something happened to me. That’s why I said those things. But now…”
Her voice trailed off as her eyes rested on his right rib area where his liver was. It was where he had surgery for her twice.
He followed her gaze, then his expression changed slightly. As if realizing something, he frowned. “You know about it?”
He asked absent-mindedly, but she understood.
“Yeah, I do. I know you donated your liver to me again after I got my C-section,” she said as her eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of tears.
He looked enlightened. “So, are you trying to make it up to me because you feel bad and think you owe me? But you underestimate me, Kyla. I don’t need a woman to make it up to me by saying she loves me in this way.”
“No! I do feel that I owe you and want to make it up to you, but that has nothing to do with me saying I love you.” She really loved him! She loved him before he donated his liver a second time!
“If you didn’t know that I had donated my liver to you again, would you have come to me and told me that you love me? Or would you have signed the divorce papers?” he asked coldly.
She froze. ‘Would I? If Grace hadn’t told me the truth, what choice would I have made if I thought I was dying and he was healthy?’
She might actually…
“What’s the matter? Can’t you answer that?” He snorted coldly. “Kyla, I would’ve been so happy even if you had only said that out of pity. I would’ve also willingly thought you loved me and let the lie go on.
But I don’t love you anymore. Do you think I care for your lies about loving me?”
Every word he said slammed into her ears, filling her mouth with a bitter taste.
It turned out this was the price of lying.
She had lied to him by saying that she did not love him, and he believed her. Now when she told him she loved him, he did not believe her anymore.
“Even if you think you don’t care, I still want to say I love you. Not out of pity or because of the baby, but because I don’t want to lose you,” Kyla said with utter certainty.
They had lost too much.
“You don’t want to lose me?” He raised his brows slightly and seemingly looked at her nonchalantly.
“But I don’t love you anymore. Whether you want me or not, we’ve already lost each other, haven’t we?”
“No, we… we haven’t. Martin Weiss, even though you’ve forgotten your feelings, you still have some feelings for me, don’t you? You still have feelings for me, or you wouldn’t have donated me your liver a second time!” If he had no feelings for her, he could have just watched her die instead of risking his health to save her!
Gifts Martin Weiss quietly looked at the wornan in front of him. She was right. He did have feelings that he could not control for her.
The feelings were something she could use against him at any time.
“It seems that my actions have misled you. You’d better listen well. I saved you not because I still have any feelings for you, but because I wanted to fulfill a promise to my former self,” his cold voice muttered.
“Promise?” She froze. “What do you mean?”
“It means that I had left a letter to myself before the hypnosis because I was afraid that the hypnosis might affect my memory or change my mindset. In the letter, I begged myself to save your life at all costs, even if I had no affection for you,” Martin Weiss said indifferently.
What he did not tell her was that he must have been afraid that her childbirth was risky when he wrote the letter, so he kept reminding himself to save her life. If he did not save her, he would surely be more miserable than death if the hypnosis was undone one day.
Would the hypnosis be undone? He did not think it was possible to undo the hypnosis. However, it was not the letter that brought him to the operating table to save her. It was just that… he did not want to see her die!
However, there was no need to tell her this because he planned to keep her in the dark.
His feelings for her were only lingering ones. It was just that he had loved her so deeply in the past that his mood was easily affected by her. It was also why he was reluctant to see something happen to her when she was in danger.
If he saw her less or did not see her in the future, the lingering feelings would gradually fade away.
“Kyla, I saved you because I loved you back then, but that’s all it is…” he said as he stared at her. He stopped abruptly when he saw the tears rolling down her eyes.
Her tears were crystal clear. They hit his chest like a boulder, and the rest of his words were blocked.
“Yeah, you really loved me,” muttered Kyla. He even left such a letter before the hypnosis to ask himself to save her life at all costs.
How deep was his love for her? Her insistence at that time had caused two people who loved each other to end up this way.
“Anyway, I don’t love you anymore. Divorce would be the best thing for us!” he said gruffly after a while, trying to suppress the uncomfortable feeling in his chest.
Kyla cried harder.
“What if I don’t want a divorce?”
“Then you’ll only be delaying it a little longer. The court will eventually rule the divorce,” said Martin Weiss.
She sniffled, raised her hand, and wiped the tears from her eyes as she stared fixedly at the person in front of her.
His face was indifferent. Those dark eyes were so deep that it was impossible to guess what was on his mind.
“So… why don’t we make another bet?” she whispered.
“Bet? What bet?” He raised his eyebrows slightly as he asked.
She took a deep breath and said, “Let’s bet if you’ll fall in love with me again. Three months. I only want three months. I want to stay with you for these three months. If you still want a divorce after three months, I’ll sign the divorce papers to end our marriage.”
He narrowed his eyes. “Are you kidding? Why would I bet on that with you? I can still divorce you even without the bet.”