Even After Death by Lilting Champ

Chapter 9

It was dead silent in the car. Marina’s voice was loud as she was anxious, so Olivia managed to hear her say the name “Connor.”

She remembered the day she received her pregnancy report. She had run into Ethan’s embrace and told him about it. “Ethan, you’re going to be a father! We’re having a baby!”

Her voice was filled with enthusiasm. “I’ve thought of our child’s name. It’ll be Colette if she’s a girl and Connor if she’s a boy. What do you think?”

Oh, how she wished she had misheard Marina, but Ethan looked her right in the eyes and told her, “His name’s Connor.”

“You asshole!” Olivia’s hand was already in the air. She slapped him, yet he did not flinch, letting her do as she pleased.

“How could you name her child after our own?”

The thought of her child was Olivia’s final straw. Tears streamed down her cheeks uncontrollably, and she pounced on him as if she had gone crazy.

“You devil! Why did God take away my child from me? Why weren’t you the one who died?” She landed hit after hit on him as she yelled, “He doesn’t deserve that name!”

Ethan grabbed both her hands and told Kelvin, “Head to Collington Cove.”

This made Olivia go berserk. “We’re close to the City Hall already! Settle our divorce first before you head elsewhere!”

“His fever won’t go down. I must go back now.”

“My father’s lying unconscious in the hospital, yet the nurses wouldn’t even let me anywhere near the hospital because of the bills! Are you saying that your child’s life is important, but my father’s life is nothing?” Olivia yelled in his face.

at the mention of Olivia’s father. “How dare you compare your

raised her hand to slap him again,

watched as they moved further and further away from the City Hall. Ethan locked her tightly in his arms,

to her now. His arms were strong, and with how frail she was right now, she could not

“Do you love Marina that

only gotten just a bit slimmer—she was way bonier than she was a year ago. She was paper-thin,

woman he once pampered so much was now so skinny

the image of his sister’s corpse flashed across his mind. His grip on Olivia’s waist tightened a little. When he raised his head to

remove your father’s breathing tube right now if you continue making

as her tears soaked his shirt. It was funny how he was the one who used to say that he would never make her cry, but he was now the reason behind all her

finally managed to calm herself down, pushing him away before straightening her

go to your child. However, you can’t ruin our plan. Stop worrying about me not letting you go because I’m going to divorce you no matter what. I don’t have the habit of keeping

“trash,” but Olivia ignored him and carried on

been too naïve in the past to pin my hopes on you. I’ve seen everything now. Holding on is meaningless, so I’ll let things go. Give me the money, and we’ll deal with the formalities later on. I promise

I

into his dark, unsettling eyes. The tears that she wept just now made her eyes

I’ll jump out of the car. I’d rather die if I couldn’t

did Ethan take out a check and write on

you? Don’t worry. I’ll sooner take my own life than stay beside

grabbed the check from his hands, slammed the door shut,

save her father’s

to settle her father’s medical

were either affluent or filthy rich. Ethan’s late

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