Chapter 1 Mr. Salazar, His Wife Has an Abortion in the Hospital
“Gianna, the funeral was about to start. Wasn’t Rodrigo coming yet?”
Gianna Pollard was dressed in white mourning clothes, kneeling in front of her mother’s memorial hall. The firelight from the burning joss paper lit up her pale little face.
She looked down at her phone, which was almost out of battery. Rodrigo Salazar’s call still wasn’t answered.
Mother passed away, Gianna, seven months pregnant, stayed at the mourning hall for seven days, and her husband of three years didn’t show up even once.
Rodrigo was really busy with work, and Gianna always understood him.
She sensibly told herself, Rodrigo might be busy with work.
“He might have been busy, but he still came.”
Tear stains were still on Gianna’s face. She burned the last bit of joss paper in her hand and struggled to stand up with her heavy body. Her voice was already hoarse and broken as she said, “Let’s start the funeral.”
Aunt Taniya Hooper next to her said sarcastically, “Gianna, how busy could Mr. Salazar be? He didn’t show up for seven days. He really didn’t care about your mom at all.”
My cousin Madilyn Pollard snorted, “Mom, you got it wrong. Mr. Salazar didn’t disrespect Auntie, he just didn’t care about our cousin. Oh, and her baby too.”
A few people’s mocking voices sounded especially harsh. Gianna’s chest ached with bitterness, but she still told herself, Rodrigo has always been a good husband since we got married. He wouldn’t stay away on purpose. He must’ve just been caught up with work.
She had just convinced herself, but reality slapped her hard.
Madilyn looked at her phone and shouted, “Isn’t this Mr. Salazar? Mr. Salazar is even on the trending topic.”
Madilyn deliberately handed her phone to Gianna.
Gianna looked down at her phone. It was a trending topic video. The trending topic was from this morning, and the video was from last night.
Title: the Salazar Group Mr. Salazar booked the whole place for Paisley Moyer’s birthday because she was his true love.
In the video, fireworks lit up the night sky. The man sat on a chair nearby, looking elegant and confident. His deep eyes quietly watched the girl next to him. The girl pointed at the fireworks, and her smile seemed even brighter than the fireworks.
The fireworks were dazzling, but Gianna only had her eyes on the man’s back.
She knew right away—the man in the video was her husband, Rodrigo.
So he was with another woman setting off fireworks for her birthday last night?
Gianna’s mind went blank for a while, and her body was so stiff she couldn’t move.
The sound of fireworks kept going along with Madilyn’s mocking voice, “Cousin, didn’t you say your husband was busy? He sure was busy—busy renting out a whole place to celebrate some other woman’s birthday.”
Gianna clenched her fists, and all she could think about was Rodrigo renting out the whole place and setting off fireworks for another woman’s birthday.
She thought he was busy.
Even when something as big as her mom passing away happened, she handled it all by herself and didn’t dare to bother him much.
Seven days, he didn’t have time to answer a single call from her, didn’t have time to come burn incense for her mom, but somehow had time to rent out a whole place and set off fireworks for another woman’s birthday.
How funny that was.
The woman in the video was Rodrigo’s first love, the woman Rodrigo loved deeply.
And she was just the woman Leandro Salazar wanted Rodrigo to marry and bring home as his wife, hoping to repay her father for saving his life and to give her someone to rely on forever.
These three years, Gianna knew he didn’t love her, so she never dared to trouble Rodrigo with her own stuff, and didn’t dare to ask for anything.
Rodrigo was an indifferent guy who didn’t understand romance. He didn’t celebrate any holidays, and all he had in life was work.
It wasn’t until today that she realized Rodrigo didn’t not understand romance, he just didn’t want to be romantic with her.
Rodrigo made Gianna the biggest joke with a brilliant, grand fireworks show.
Gianna clenched her teeth and tried hard to push down the pain inside. She looked away from her phone. She wanted to make herself look less ridiculous.
Her mother’s funeral still needed her to take care of things, she had to hold on.
Gianna forced herself to bend down, picked up her mom’s memorial tablet, and walked out, ignoring those people’s mocking looks.
Gianna still remembered her mom wanted to see Rodrigo one more time before she died.
At that time she also called Rodrigo a lot, he didn’t pick up, maybe he was with Paisley then too.
Her mom hoped she could be happy with Rodrigo forever.
But maybe I couldn’t do it.
After taking care of everything by herself and after all the relatives and friends finished eating and left, Gianna sat alone on a chair in the dining room.
Rodrigo showed up late. He wore a black shirt, and there wasn’t much expression on his handsome face. His eyes landed on Gianna. Seeing the scene, there was actually a bit of apology on his usually emotionless face.
Gianna held her belly and looked up at him, and that suppressed grievance rushed out all at once.
Gianna took a deep breath and swallowed her grievance hard, her face showing no emotion, “Just finished?”
Rodrigo didn’t notice the fragility in her voice.
“There was a meeting during the day.”
“What about last night? Did you have a good time on your birthday?”
Rodrigo frowned, and before he could say anything, a woman in a red dress, with Rodrigo’s jacket over her shoulders, walked in behind him.
Gianna’s face got even darker.
“Gianna, sorry, Rodrigo was with me last night. My mom got sick a few days ago, and Rodrigo was worried I’d have a hard time alone, so he helped me take care of her. That’s why he didn’t check your messages. It’s all my fault, I shouldn’t have bothered Rodrigo.”
Gianna listened to what Paisley said, and a wave of bitterness surged up in her heart.
“Was your mother very sick?”
“Not serious, just a little cold, had a bit of a fever, but it was almost better now.”
Gianna felt like someone had punched her hard in the chest. She tried hard to control her emotions, but her red eyes and trembling lips still gave her away.
Rodrigo frowned even more. He knew that when Gianna’s mom passed away, he was in a meeting. When the meeting ended and he planned to come over, something happened with Paisley again. With so much going on, he just forgot about Gianna’s situation.
No matter what, he was sorry.
Rodrigo wanted to go light some incense for Gianna’s mom first, but Gianna reached out to stop him, “No need, her mom is more important, you go be with her and her mom.”
Rodrigo paused.
Gianna didn’t want to stay here anymore, so she stood up and was about to leave.
She didn’t cry, Gianna didn’t let herself shed tears for people who weren’t worth it.
Rodrigo looked at Gianna, who was already seven months along and having trouble walking, and suddenly felt a bit sorry for her.
Paisley just called him in a panic when her mom got sick, crying her eyes out, while when Gianna’s mom passed away, she got through it all by herself.
“Where are you going? Don’t run around when you’re pregnant.” Rodrigo wanted to call out to Gianna.
Gianna gave a wry smile.
So he actually knew she was pregnant.
He left his pregnant wife behind and went to take care of someone else’s mother, so it showed he didn’t care about her or the baby at all.
Kids who weren’t wanted or cared about when they were born didn’t end up happy.
Gianna looked down at her stomach. In pain, it seemed like she made some kind of decision. She walked faster and faster and went straight into the elevator.
Rodrigo felt a tightness in his chest and hurried after her. Paisley grabbed him, “Rodrigo, Gianna’s mom just passed away and she’s really upset. Maybe let her calm down by herself.”
Rodrigo frowned at Paisley and pushed her hand away. His voice was cold, “She’s in a bad mood right now and could get into trouble. You should go back by yourself.”
Rodrigo went out and Gianna was already gone.
Looking at the busy street, Rodrigo took out his phone and made a call, “Track Gianna’s phone and find her right now.”
There was a bit of unease on Rodrigo’s handsome face.
One hour later.
The assistant called Rodrigo, “Sir, madam was at the hospital.”
“What did she go to the hospital for?”
“Ab…abortion, and, the wife had a lawyer draft a divorce agreement, the wife already signed it.”
There was a “buzz” in my ear.
Rodrigo’s deep eyes were full of disbelief.
