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The next second, her hand was strongly pushed away by Jonathan.
Kristina thought for a moment, and then she quickly followed Jonathan on her high heels.
When they arrived at the pediatric department next door, the moment she saw Jimmy, she showed the same gentle expression as before.
She sounded flattery.
“What’s wrong with your little face, Jimmy? Did you get into a fight at school?”
But this time; Jimmy did not jump into her arms as he did before. Instead, he was so scared that he remained silent and
clutched Jonathan’s trouser legs tightly.
Kristina’s smile froze, and she looked grim.
Jonathan took Jimmy’s hand without even looking at her.
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On the way home with Jimmy, Jimmy said softly, “Dad, I miss my mom…”
Hearing Jimmy’s voice, Jonathan asked in confusion, “Then why did you say you hate your mom?
“Did mom do something wrong?”
Jonathan asked the question I had been wanting to ask for the past five years.
At that moment, I felt very nervous.
Jimmy pouted and thought for a long time. I was so nervous that I could hear my heartbeat.
After a moment, he spoke aggrievedly, “Kristina said that if I said I hated my mother the most as she requested, she would buy me a lot of toys. But when I asked her for toys after that, she hit me…”
After a sharp brake sound, Jonathan turned to look at Jimmy with wide eyes.
I looked up and met Jonathan’s tearful eyes. He looked tired and regretful.
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The next second, he slapped the steering. wheel hard.
At the same time, tears rolled down his
eyes.
His shirt was wet.
It was the first time Jimmy saw Jonathan like this, and Jimmy felt more curious than aggrieved.
Jimmy just sat aside and watched.
Jonathan’s lips were trembling, and it took him ten minutes to restart the car.
When they got home, he picked up Jimmy. and got out of the car. The two of them went straight to my bedside table.
He pulled the drawer open with force, and the screws inside loosened and fell to the
floor due to inertia.
My medicine bottles were scattered all over the floor.
When he was packing my things, he
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searched every corner but ignored where the medicine was placed.
He picked up the medicine bottles on the ground and took a look. He completely lost his rationality.
He held his head helplessly in his hands.
“It turns out it’s all true… Why did you lie to
me?
“If I hadn’t believed Kristina, would I have been able to spend the last moments with you?”
At this moment he finally understood that my bulging belly was not because I gained weight after marriage.
It was just that the tumor was getting bigger and bigger and I couldn’t control it.
My face was sallow only because of my liver disease, not because I was trying to disgust them on purpose.
I would usually carefully apply foundation. to cover it up.
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But that day, I didn’t have the energy…
Jimmy was too young to understand the words on the bottles, but he could sense Jonathan’s depression.
So he also burst into tears.
When I heard this, my heart ached, but I could do nothing.
I knew that Kristina said I had been faking illness.
I didn’t think there was any need to tell the truth.
If he felt sorry for me because I was dying, it would only make me sadder.
I suddenly remembered the scene when we were together.
I wondered if there was ever a moment in these years when he loved me, instead of treating me as a substitute for Kristina.
At the bottom of the drawer was my diagnosis, which clearly stated that I had
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advanced liver cancer.
The causes of the disease were long–term medication, heavy thoughts, and depression.
I was taking mostly antidepressants, and he had seen me taking them a few times.
But at that time he just thought I was acting to gain sympathy and was full of disdain
for me.
He even smashed my medicine bottle when we had an argument and yelled at me, “I won’t even look at you even if you hurt yourself!”
I came back to my senses when I heard the sudden ringing of the phone.
Kristina’s name was shown on Jonathan’s phone screen.
He wanted to hang up, but after hesitating for a moment he answered it.
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