The mistress, Helen Milton, smiled sweetly and chimed in maliciously, “Exactly. You’re useless. You’d better pack up and give me your spot, you little tramp. If you don’t want to leave, you can stay as a housemaid. You can serve us. Such a job would suit you perfectly,” she added.
I looked at the three of them in front of me. They were so vile, so united, they truly looked like a family.
“Don’t even think about it. Unless I’m dead, I won’t sign this divorce agreement,” I said firmly.
Ever since the divorce talks started, Rick and I had been sleeping in separate rooms.
He left early and came home late, barely speaking to me at all.
We couldn’t agree on the division of our pre-marital assets, so I kept dragging things out. After all, as long as I didn’t divorce him, the mistress would always remain a mistress.
I wasn’t in a hurry, it was the pregnant mistress who was.
Because I had trouble sleeping, I had developed a habit of drinking a glass of milk before I went to bed every night.
After drinking the milk one evening, I felt dizzy and extremely unwell.
Soon, my breathing became rapid, and it grew worse and worse.
“Help… help me…” I tried to struggle, but my body wouldn’t move, as if I were sinking into quicksand, gradually becoming paralyzed.
In my haze, someone approached me and squatted down in front of me.
“If you had just signed the divorce agreement earlier, this wouldn’t have happened,” said Rick, showing no guilt.
He dragged me off the bed and toward the kitchen.
“Laura, this is all your own doing. Don’t blame me,” he said coldly.
“How foolish,” said Helen, gloating. “You’re a worthless woman and you still dream of holding a place in the Clinton family? What an idiot.”
Rick closed the doors and windows as I looked at him in despair.
They turned on the gas, trying to make it look like I had passed out and died from a gas leak in the kitchen.
My vision blurred, but the sounds around me grew sharper.
The only thing left was the television in the living room, playing a finance news segment.
It was an interview with a major investor. “The previously sluggish real estate market is about to see a bull run. Several stocks have already achieved…”
