Chapter 12 Your Love Disgusts Me

• Sadie looked paralyzed on the floor. Her body was wracked with sobs as she crawled toward Aiden. She wailed, “Aiden, save me! Ruth wants to kill me. My legs hurt so much! They really hurt!”
• Aiden knelt beside her and took her into his arms. He comforted her, “It's fine. I'm here. No one can hurt you anymore.”
• He turned to face Ruth. His gentle gaze turned icy in an instant. “Are you deaf? I asked you what you were trying to do.”
• Ruth lay on the floor, too frightened and was unable to move.
• Even a slight movement could force the shards of the broken vase to cut deeper into her flesh, causing her unbearable pain.
• The shards hurt her flesh and bones, but it was not comparable to the pain from her broken heart.
• “Haha, what was I trying to do? You saw it yourself. I wanted to kill your lover!”
• Ruth returned his frosty stare with one of her own. Her face was devoid of any emotion.
• “Ruth, this is too much. You broke Sadie's legs, and now you want to take her life? I'd really like to see how rotten your heart truly is!” Aiden gritted out.
• He could not imagine that a woman he had been married to for this long could be this brutal to someone else.
• Ruth barked out a cold laugh. “Aiden, you have no idea how much I'd want you to see that. Only then you'd truly know how much I love you!”
• This did nothing to move Aiden. He shouted, “Your love disgusts me!”
• Even the most intense love had its limits. A heart that had been stomped on one too many times would eventually bleed dry of any passion.
• Ruth was suddenly overcome with exhaustion. She had no desire to defend herself nor look at him even for a moment longer.
• Sadie kept up her pitiful façade as she burrowed into Aiden's embrace. Her eyes shone with tears as she whimpered, “Aiden, don't be so fierce toward Ruth. It's all my fault. I should never have loved you. My legs were already recovering, but now they hurt so much. This must be a punishment from God.”
• Aiden frowned in worry and lifted her. “I'll send you to the hospital.”
• He turned to leave.
• As Ruth lifted her head, she could see Sadie flashing a sinister smile at her from her position in Aiden's arms. She was provoking her on purpose.
• In the heat of the moment, Ruth could think of nothing else. She picked up the fruit knife and rushed forward.
• “Sadie, I'm going to kill you! I must kill you!”
• Since I can't live anyway, she can die with me!
• To no one's surprise, Ruth's advance was blocked by Aiden once more.
• This time, she lost her balance and fell forward. She banged her forehead against the coffee table. The impact stunned her for a moment.
• A cold voice drifted to her ears. “Ruth, I'm warning you. Don't go batsh*t crazy, or I'll send you to an asylum, where you can rot for the rest of your life!”
• Ruth touched her forehead and felt the warm, sticky blood trickling past the corner of her eye.
• She laughed humorlessly. She stood up and walked shakily toward him, forgetting her pain. “Aiden, you should send me to an asylum, or I will pose as a deathly threat to your lover.”
• “You're insane!”
• Aiden turned his head away after glancing at her.
• Without another word, Ruth straightened her back and stalked past him.
• Aiden's chest tightened when he saw the blood-stained shards embedded in her back.
• Before he could call out to her, she had entered the elevator. The doors closed behind her.
• This was the first time she had ever left him behind.
• This was also the first time she did not turn her head back to look at him.
• There was an inexplicable sense of hollowness in Aiden's heart.