Since You Don't Love Me, I’m Leaving

My vision blurred and spun, making Cameron’s smiling face flicker in and out like a broken reel of film.

“You saw everything upstairs just now, right? Has Jody ever been so gentle to you? Has he..." She yanked off her collar, leaving dense red marks all over her fair neck before she continued, “Has there ever been any trace of love in you?”

The taste of rust spread in my mouth. No, never. Jody never left any marks to me, nor did he ever say any words of affection, liking or love to me.

“I'm telling you a secret. Just now, Jody and I made love in the room where Regina used to live. After Jody calmed down, he hugged me and said, ‘Cameron, I love you.’

“Cherry, guess how long you can stay in this position of Mrs. Hayden?”

She looked outside, turned back to look at me with a smile and took out three white pills from her pocket.

“Cherry, how about we do an experiment? I don't want this bastard in my belly that doesn't belong to Jody, can you help me?”

She raised her hand to swallow the medicine and reached towards my stomach with her other hand.

Instinctively, I shielded my stomach with one hand and reached out with the other to block her.

But just then, she switched tactics, grabbing my hands and forcing them against her own face as if I were the attacker. 

I tried to pull away, to push her back, but she clung to me like a madwoman, relentless.

And through it all, she kept shoving at my belly, again and again.

As we were pulling each other back and forth, she suddenly pushed me away and fell backwards, with the back of her head hitting the door frame.

Jody, who had returned, strode in with fire in his eyes. He snapped, “Cherry, how dare you!”

The tingling pain in the palms of my hands and the discomfort in my lower abdomen made my already dizzy head even more dizzy. Instinctively, I called for help from Jody.

“Jody, I feel dizzy and uncomfortable. Please take me to the hospital."

Before I could finish his words, I was interrupted by Cameron's painful groan, “Jody, I know Cameron’s in terrible pain—her stomach, her head—it’s all too much. But what about me?

“All I did was tell Cherry she should listen to you more and she turned on me. Jody… am I going to die?”

I was startled and retorted, “That's not the case. It's her…."

“You 're still pretending!” Jody interrupted me angrily and looked at me as if he wanted to tear me to pieces on the spot. “Cherry, I misjudged you. You disappoint me so much.”

Jody picked up Cameron and walked out, comforting her as he walked.

“Don't be afraid, Cameron, I'm here and I won't let anything happen to you.”

Although I was already disheartened, Jody's attitude of believing Cameron without hesitation and choosing to abandon me still hurt my heart.

I struggled to sit up and my eyelids felt as if they weighed a thousand pounds.

I did not know what the hospital said, I was locked in the room.

Two hours later, Jody's men forcibly took me to the hospital, rolled up my sleeves and pressed me in front of the doctor.

Jody was sitting nearby, his aura gloomy as he said, “Do it.”

The nurse gasped and asked me tremblingly, “Ms. Baldwin, Miss Cameron is bleeding heavily due to miscarriage and the hospital's blood bank is in urgent need, so…."

I understood, because Cameron and I both have type B blood, so Jody brought me there.

I looked at Jody with a cold face as I said, “I'm still pregnant and can't have a large amount of blood transfusion.”

Unexpectedly, Jody just gave me a cold look and his words made me feel like I was falling into an icy cave.

“You’re going to abort the baby in two days anyway, so what's the big deal? If you can't save Cameron, I'll let you experience the pain of having an abortion.”