A Moment in Destiny

Chapter 820 Threatening With the Child

“Even if I don't understand, you will never get a divorce. I will never agree to divorce!!!” Marley yelled in a low voice of hatred.

Sylvie looked at him with unfamiliar eyes, “Don't push me!”

The pride in her bones survived years of hardship! She was not the one who could be threatened! She had paid all that she owed him back! Now, she didn’t want to live in humility anymore!

When Marley saw her proud smile, he felt a fire burning in his blood, then he stepped forward and strongly held Sylvie against the door, “What about our child?”

“I’ll raise the child, and you shall have visitation rights!” Sylvie replied calmly.

Marley gritted his teeth and said, “What, are, you, saying?”

“You can visit the baby anytime you want. However, if you don't agree to the divorce, I'll have an abortion.” Sylvie looked at him pitifully with her head held high, “Don't force me to take that step. I don't want it to happen, but if you can’t agree, I won't hesitate to abort the baby!"

She knew how angry Marley would be on hearing those words, and from what she had known of Marley, he would be furious.

“This is our baby! If he knew that you ever wanted to abort him, he would be quite upset!”. Unsurprisingly, Marley stared at her like he was going to eat her up, or that his forehead was bruised, “You threatened me with the baby just for a divorce? You damned woman, the child is innocent. If you dare to touch him, I will never forgive you for the rest of my life!”

“Just do it!” She whispered.

“Asking for my consent? Sylvie, do you feel it a torment to be with me now? ” He growled in a low voice.

“Yes!” She closed her eyes. She was also tangled and trembling to stand, only to feel the intense pain in her heart make her cower. With nothing in mind, she heard a hollow voice ring out, “it’s terrible suffering in every minute. I don’t want to pretend anymore. You're tired, and I'm tired too!”

"How come it become what it is today? Sylvie, please tell me, aren’t we good?"

“I'll tell you why! From the day you saw my last hug with Ernie in the corridor of the morgue, you have already started to doubt me. You said that was the last time, but in fact, we are the same. We are both selfish. You can't accept me and Ernie as a friend with a little ambiguity, and I also can't stand your old lover unforgotten in your mind. The most important thing is that we can't conceal our selfishness no matter how many decent reasons we give. If we go on living together, we will be exhausted by ourselves! So, just let go, Marley!”

“How did you know that I can’t stand your ambiguity?”

“You do!” Sylvie screamed, “You can't stand any man being close to me, whether it's Ernie or Ryan. Without regard to what they really have in mind, you just can't stand it! When I had a meal with Ryan, who was leaving for America, you immediately appeared in front of me. In the afternoon, you told me that you would join in a dinner party, but actually, you were with Jemima. Even if nothing had happened between you and her, did you really respect me? You never did. Don't you think we're tired and worn out? In fact, to put it simply, I don't know you well, and neither do you. However, Ernie and Ryan know me well and they care about me more than you!”

“What are you saying?” Marley felt a boom exploded in his head at the moment.

Feeling tired, Sylvie said word by word, “Marley, I loved you, for almost six years, from seventeen to twenty-two. I give all my love to you. In fact, you may have long forgotten what had happened five

years ago in the club. You saved a girl who was deceived by her mother to sell her body at the age of seventeen. You gave her a check worth 200,000, but you insisted that you did not want the girl! You may have already forgotten the details, but she remembered every detail, and that girl is me. You asked me about my study. In fact, at that time I was not excellent at all, but after meeting you, I exert more effort to study and become first at school. Then, I know that you are Marley. So I keep you in my heart ever since! Even in Harvard, I couldn't sleep for a week when I know that you are going to study there too. I often visited you, but you never knew there was me! I loved you secretly behind your back for five years, but you never knew. When I received a call from my grandfather informing me to come back to get married, I refused. However, when I found out it’s you, I agreed. I have never regretted getting married to you over the past months. I still love you, but I'm just too tired! Five years ago, I turned down a lot of excellent men who pursued me for this reason, because I was grateful for what you have done for me. But I'm wondering how long the love that grows out of gratitude can last? You saved me, and I helped you. Now, I don't owe you, and just let me go! I don't want to lose myself. I don't want to end up in a hysterical manner, which will make me feel disgusted with myself!”

After saying these words, Sylvie once again turned her face away! She has loved him for five years. There’s only one man in her heart and that’s him, but he said her love is not pure enough, which makes her feel aggrieved and distressed.

“Obviously, we love each other. Why do we have to divorce?" Marley was shocked and sorrowful. He tried to think about what Sylvie had just said. Five years ago? A check? He looked at her in a daze but something was flashing quickly in his mind. Yes! He remembered! He did save a girl who was drugged! It turned out that she was the girl.

Five years ago, he gave her a 200,000 check. Five years later, she gave him her virginity and an investment of 1.5 billion, but he, all this time, was suspecting her love for being not pure enough!

“Sylvie” his heart was in shock, “That’s you? I'm sorry, I don't know!”

“Marley, we should break up!” her voice was choked with sobs.

“But there’s no way I can let go of you!”

“Marley, I have nothing more to give you, nothing more. Let go of me. Just let me go.” Sylvie closed her eyes, “We are both too selfish to love the other deep enough. You resent me and so do I. There is no way that we can live together!” Exclusive © content by N(ô)ve/l/Drama.Org.

Marley’s heart ached so badly and he closed his eyes, “Sylvie, why do you say that? I didn't blame you.”

Plaintively, she said, “You did! You just don't admit it!”

Marley twisted his head and clenched his fist against his heart, “I am blaming you, blaming you for being too devoted to Ernie!”

“That's because you can never feel the loneliness in him, but I do! He always reminds me of myself whenever I see him being alone physically and mentally!”

Marley’s body swayed, “Please calm down, Sylvie!”

“No need!”

“Let me think it over for a few days!” His heart was deeply grieved and his eyes being vacant. He could only compromise, thinking she was so emotional and it may be bad for the baby. “Anyway, you promise me to take good care of yourself and the baby. Don't get emotional for the sake of the baby. Let's all calm down! I will reflect on myself! If you do not want to see me, I will leave!”

As she watched his back disappearing behind the closed door, she staggered back because her heart ached.

Suddenly she remembered that night when he gave her the check when she was only seventeen, and the time when she had thought she would love him regardless of everything. Now, she hated herself too! Yes, she was becoming more and more annoying! She became selfish and impenetrable. Sylvie closed her eyes because the pain in her eyes was tested.

She opened her eyes again and looked out the window at the sky. As she was looking, her face was covered with tears. She was once so naive and innocent when she thought that love was just about giving. But now, she was so greedy that she wants everything from him. Exactly, she became greedy!

Her tears fell like rain. After crying, she went to wash her face and scold herself seeing her inflamed eyes in the mirror with resentment. ‘What are you crying for?’

For three days in a row, Marley did not give her a call, let alone a visit.

Sylvie went downstairs to buy some vegetables. On her way back from the market, she bumped into Ernie who had disappeared for almost a month.

He was standing right in front of her, with a handsome face.

Ernie had been following her, on her way to the market and back. His eyes were gloomy and his heart was as nervous as a wire tightly strangled, swing back and forth in the cold valley.

She was not doing well. Seeing her drawn look, he felt that 10,000 small worms were gnawing at his blood vessels. Despite his absence, he knew everything about her and the fact that she and Marley had been doing bad lately.

“Sylvie!” Ernie spoke in a low voice.

She looked at him calmly, then smiled with tranquility and without entanglement, “Ernie, how are you doing lately?”

Her greeting made his whole heart tightened. He stared at her eyes for a long time where there was neither longing nor adoration, only care for an old friend. He felt only a sense of desolation. His heart was painful, very painful! At the same time, he was relieved that she did not love him at all! But, why couldn’t Marley notice it?

“I'm fine!” Ernie answered.

“Let's go, let me take you to dinner!” Sylvie said indifferently. “But let me put my stuff upstairs first.”

He nodded his head.

After Sylvie put the food home and then came downstairs, the two of them walked out of the apartment and stopped at a clean restaurant outside the apartment. Sylvie smiled lightly and said, “Let's go to this one!”

“Okay!” Without too many words and without refusal. They sat down in a small, semi-open booth on the second floor like two old friends.

“Did Aila come to you?” Sylvie asked.

“Yes!” Ernie said calmly, “I am sorry she came to you as well.”

“That’s all right. She probably thought I know your whereabouts. Ernie, it's ridiculous that Marley thought I was familiar with you, and Aila thought I knew your whereabouts. While in fact, there was nothing between us! I really cherished the fate of being a friend with you!”

Ernie smiled bitterly, “Sylvie, you're not happy at all!”

“I feel much more quietness over the past few days. I do what I want to do and be true to myself! If it was in the past, eating with you like today would make me feel sorry for Marley! But now, I feel that

having a meal with you is just a normal thing! As long as a person is true to himself, he is happy. What’s more, because I can have friends and do what I like, I am happy now!”

Ernie’s eyebrows tightened and he spoke in a deep voice, “Sylvie.”

Sylvie smile flatly, “Once when I was innocent, I lost myself for love. But now, after having gone through so much, I suddenly feel that a woman should respect and love herself first before she deserves the love of a man. Loving a person doesn’t mean to just grovel on the ground. As time goes by, it will be painful!”

She thought about many things these days. When she was idle, she would let her mind wander, especially during the estrangement period with Marley. She couldn’t sleep well all night because she worried about him and thought confusedly. She was worried that she didn’t do it well. Marley always looked at her with suspicion and grudge in his eyes and that’s what made her feel pressured.

Occasionally, when Marley was watching TV downstairs for a while, she could, from the distance upstairs, see his eyes being distracted and depressed. His gaze was fixed on a certain point for a long time. She knew that this was what an extremely depressed person would have in his eyes. Whenever she saw Marley's gaze, she felt her heart pressed under a boulder such that she could not get up.