‘Felix, you son of a bitch!’
He’s not a mama’s boy, is he? Now, he’s trying to pressure me by putting his mother forward.
Amaya’s chest heaved as she felt a fire burning inside.
“Can you put a broken jar back together and make it the way it was? It’s the same with you and Felix. It seems like you two have gone as far as you can go. Why don’t you know that dragging out the time will only make you look pathetic?”
Her mother-in-law clicked her tongue at the end of her words.
“M, Mother, it’s not that I’m not getting a divorce…”
Amaya barely managed to calm herself down and spoke with difficulty, but her mother-in-law cut her off and made a dumbfounded expression.
“You’re asking for a trillion pounds in alimony?”
‘That nasty and hateful thing!’
Her face, glaring at Amaya in her hospital gown, seemed to show such signs clearly.
“What have you done since you came into this house? Did you have a child? Did you even make money? What did you do so well that you sucked my son dry!”
Her mother-in-law snorted roughly, as if she was more and more dumbfounded as she thought about it.
Amaya couldn’t completely agree, even though it wasn’t wrong.
Her husband made good money, and she didn’t think there was any reason for her to make money if she didn’t need it.
That’s why she had a political marriage with Felix.
And what’s so wrong with me, as a daughter-in-law of a chaebol family, demanding a trillion won in alimony?
“You have to know your place. Even 1 million pound in alimony is too much for you…”
If she could, she wouldn’t want to give her a single penny.
Amaya knew what the omitted words meant.
“I can make someone like you disappear without a trace. But I don’t want to go that far. So I hope you’ll break up with Felix nicely.”
Her mother-in-law brought her face close to Amaya’s and firmly nailed it down as she opened her red lips.
“I don’t need to say much. Get the stamp by next week. If you delay any longer, I’ll send you somewhere no one can find you, not here.”
“No need for long talks, get the stamp by next week, no matter what. If you delay any further, I’ll send you somewhere no one can find you, not just here.”
It was a threat. But not an empty one.
Her mother-in-law was more than capable of it.
Amaya’s mother-in-law left the hospital room after saying those words. With a bang, the sound of the door closing made Amaya tremble.
She resented everything.
Even in this situation, Amaya blamed others instead of reflecting on whether she had lived her life wrong.
She resented her mother-in-law, who had disliked her from the start, and she was furious at Felix for being so despicable.
‘As if I’m a beggar!’
Giving her a mere ten million pounds and telling her to live well and leave quietly?
“No way! Tell him to wake up from his dream.”
After nervously tearing at her hair for a while, Amaya jumped up and paced back and forth in the hospital room, huffing and puffing.
She couldn’t just be helpless and had to find a way to survive.
Determined to come to her senses, Amaya threw off her patient gown and began to change into her going-out clothes.
She was planning to go find Nia, who had driven her into a corner.
*****
Lola was sitting at the coffee table, drinking coffee and reading a book.
The wound no longer stung, and she was recovering quickly thanks to eating well and resting.
There was no problem with going to work, but Dylan strongly opposed it, so she was still resting.
She had never taken such a long break before, so Lola didn’t feel comfortable even while resting.
It felt like she hadn’t done something she was supposed to do, like something was bothering her.
As she turned the pages of the book and sipped her coffee, a text message arrived, and Lola put her coffee cup on the table and reached for her phone.
A message from Dylan was floating on the screen.
A faint smile spread across her lips as she scanned the message.
“I’m a serious case at this point.”
Even though it was nothing special, just seeing a text from him made her feel good.
-A housekeeper will come later.
[Why is the housekeeper coming?]
As soon as she sent the reply, an emoticon sighing deeply came back.
Lola tilted her head to the side, puzzled.
Again, ding-dong, a text message arrived.
-Why would a housekeeper come? Think about it.
She sent an emoticon shaking her head, and this time he sent a laughing face.
It felt like he was laughing, so Lola laughed along and typed a message.
[The housekeeper doesn’t need to come.]
It’s not like I can’t use my limbs.
She grumbled inwardly, feeling like he was wasting money unnecessarily, but a reply came right away.
-You just rest and don’t lift a finger.
[I think I’ve gained weight from eating and resting too well.]
It really seemed that way, so Lola glanced over her body with anxious eyes.
-It’s okay to gain weight. That’s what I wanted.
[What if I look ugly or my image is ruined?]
-It’s okay.
[I’ll hate myself.]
-It’s enough if I like you.
There’s no reasoning with him.
As she grumbled, another speech bubble popped up.
-Don’t be stubborn and listen to me.
‘Is he treating me like a child again?’
