The Potential of Love

Ethan and I naturally became a couple.

We grew up together, went to the same school, and entered the same college.

He attended to me so carefully.

In winter, Ethan would nervously ask me whether I caught a cold as soon as I coughed.

Every time I had my period, even if it was in the middle of the night, he would buy whatever I wanted to eat.

I remembered that once I interned in another city and had a low fever, he drove to where I was overnight and stayed with me all night.

"You must feel very uncomfortable and helpless when you are sick. I can't bear to see my girlfriend suffer like this," said Ethan.

On our wedding day, he took my hand from David and made a promise to him with tears in his eyes.

He said, "David, you are my second father! From now on, I finally have a family in this world! I'll love Violet for the rest of my life and will protect her from all the misery!"

After our wedding, Ethan was determined to start his own business, and David used his life savings to support him.

Meanwhile, David worried about Ethan's body as Ethan had to work overtime after his long working hours, so he often made chicken soup for him and reminded me to take good care of him.

Ethan said that David and I finally made up for the love he lacked in his childhood, and he felt satisfied, lucky, and happy.

I had seen what he was like when he loved me; that's why I could sensitively discern when his love faded.

Two years ago, Ethan was driving on a business trip when a series of accidents occurred on the highway, resulting in heavy casualties.

The person who should be held responsible for it had been killed in the accident, only leaving Olivia.

When Ethan saw the helpless Olivia, he thought of his past.

Out of humanitarianism and perhaps out of a bit of compassion in his heart, he did not ask for any compensation but instead offered Olivia a lot of money.

After hearing this, David said out of kindness, "I'm sorry to hear that. If she encounters any difficulties in the future, please help her as much as you can!"

But unexpectedly, Ethan fell in love with Olivia and raised her himself.

"Violet, Olivia has lost her parents. No one in this world will care about her except me!

"I owe her! I just treated her as a sister, and we didn't do anything amoral!

"Violet, could you please stop being so unreasonably jealous and be kinder to a little girl?"

We quarreled countless times because of Olivia, but I tolerated him again and again because we had known each other and had been together for more than ten years.

In the middle of the night, someone sent me an application to be my friend on WhatsApp.

With a woman's intuition, I knew it was Olivia.

Although she didn't send any messages to me after I passed her application, the posts on her Instagram flaunted her victory.

The latest one showed a big hand holding a small hand with a pair of couple rings on its ring fingers.

Enclosed with the post was a sentence: what belonged to me would eventually belong to me!

As I checked her previous posts, I found a picture she posted on the day they pushed David to the ground. The background of it was my bedroom, and Olivia was caressing Ethan's eyelash softly while he was sleeping.

She called him her Mr. Right.

Before that, they went on vacation together at the beach, climbed mountains together to watch the sunrise, and watched concerts together...

In the past two years, Ethan lied to me with the excuse of working overtime in order to spend time with her.

Even when I caught a high fever and wailed because of the fear and sharp pain in my throat, he didn't return home to stay with me and just ordered a medicine delivery for me on his business trip.

However, that afternoon, he managed to come back to take care of Olivia, who just had a low fever.

Olivia also commented on his caring movement, praising the efforts he had spent to come back from a distant city.

Looking at their backs leaning against each other, even though I had been totally disappointed by Ethan, I found myself still aching for his betrayal.

Because the memory that he was out of control and kissed me excitedly when he came back and found I had recovered from the high fever was indelible.

At that time, I thought that after almost losing me, he would cherish me more.

But now, I had realized that his caring reaction to me was just out of the guilt and compensation after cheating on me!

It was so fucking disgusting!

I was heartbroken over the loss of David, with whom I had depended for decades.

My love for Ethan and the last attachment to the happiness in the past had all gone at that moment.