When the Contract Marriage Ended, He Stayed

Chapter 65: The Suicide Was Just an Act

To Hazel Hawthorne, Aiden Xavier was utterly love-brained.

She couldn’t decide if Aiden Xavier always believing Raina Lowell was a sign of him being love-brained, or if it just meant Raina’s act was too convincing.

Hazel Hawthorne thought back on her conversations with Aiden Xavier. They always ended badly, they were always about Raina Lowell, and it was always Aiden making excuses for something terrible Raina had done.

Sometimes, she found herself thinking that if Raina Lowell had never come back from abroad, her life with Aiden Xavier would have actually been quite pleasant.

Aiden Xavier wasn’t staying over tonight. Before bed, Hazel Hawthorne pulled out her phone and opened her account. Seeing users flocking to leave comments on her post, she couldn’t resist reading a few.

Online commenters were just a gossip-hungry crowd, drawn to wherever the drama was. They didn’t need to know the truth; they just needed to claim the moral high ground, appoint themselves judge, and fearlessly voice their opinions.

It was the same when they were trashing Hazel Hawthorne, and it was the same now that they were trashing Raina Lowell.

They never wanted the truth. All they wanted was a platform to feel superior, a place from which they could play God and attack every person and every little thing.

Of course, some people were genuinely seeking justice, but none of that mattered to Hazel Hawthorne. All she needed was to set the record straight and prove her innocence. If not for the opportunity to use this to take a jab at Raina Lowell, she wouldn’t have bothered going through all the trouble to play these games with her.

Drowsiness washed over her. Lying on her side, phone still in hand, Hazel Hawthorne drifted off to sleep. A shrill ringtone, like a clap of thunder in the silent night, jolted her awake.

The room was dimly lit. She woke in a daze, fumbled for the phone pinned beneath her pillow, and groggily answered.

More jarring than the thunderclap was the voice on the other end of the line—Aiden Xavier’s, icy enough to be a death sentence.

"What did you

attempted suicide. They’re trying to save her

daze. ’Raina Lowell attempted suicide?’ She mulled it over for a long time but couldn’t figure out why. ’I didn’t force her to do it. Is this her way of tricking Aiden Xavier into thinking

I have to admit, Raina Lowell

threw on some clothes, grabbed her car keys, and

Outside the emergency room.

Lowell’s blood. The sight of him when Hazel Hawthorne stepped out of the elevator was a shock. She gently tugged on his sleeve. Seeing him sitting there, silent and still, she almost thought Raina hadn’t made it and had died right then and

here?" Aiden Xavier didn’t even glance at Hazel Hawthorne. "Here to see if

think she did this on purpose. If she’s

woman’s heart is the

her to do this? I get it. She couldn’t handle the cyberbullying, a few nasty comments hurt her pride, hit a nerve, and

through her as she sat on the cold bench. "The online hate I went through was far worse than this. If I’d tried to kill myself, you’d be showing up at my

patted Aiden Xavier’s shoulder. "I know you won’t believe me," she continued. "In your eyes, Raina Lowell

I’m telling you anyway—Raina Lowell is absolutely not going to die. Wouldn’t her death be giving me exactly what I want? She’s so desperate for me to divorce you;

her away. "Shut

a theatrical sigh. "I’m just telling

by her chatter,

her eye, she saw the light above the emergency room door go out. She spoke again. "Wanna bet the first thing the doctor says is, ’It’s a good thing you got her here when you

at Hazel

and said almost exactly what Hazel had predicted, which made her stifle a laugh behind Aiden Xavier’s

lent a bizarrely humorous air to the typically grim

Raina Lowell, following the doctor directly to his office to discuss her condition. Hazel Hawthorne

is getting more and