You Tainted Our Love, I Took Back All

The day after that, Jessa got sick.

In her addled haze, she felt like she was trapped in an icy sea, unable to surface no matter how hard she tried.

She seemed to hear Sawyer repeat, over and over again, that he loved her.

He asked her to wait.

But what was she waiting for? Was she supposed to wait until Sawyer’s baby was born?

Gradually, the voice turned into familiar footsteps.

Jessa fought to open her eyes. When she did, she saw the family doctor who had been with her for more than a decade. Her expression was pained, as Vanessa stood before her to block her path.

“Thank you for coming all this way, Dr. Marchand, but your services are not needed. Mr. Pitt hired the best private medical team from Swenara. They’ll be doing a full-body checkup for Mrs. Pitt in a bit.”

Jessa wanted to interject, but her throat was too dry for her to speak.

She could only watch as the medical team did as they liked.

She felt humiliation like she had never before experienced as the foreign coldness of the equipment swept over her body.

That night, Jessa forced herself to call Sawyer.

Through the phone, Sawyer said matter-of-factly, “Your health is extremely important, so you must have the best. Vanessa is more considerate than you when it comes to this.”

Jessa gripped her phone and lost the energy to even argue.

Her illness lasted one week. Throughout the week, Sawyer never came by to visit her. He only sent her three texts every day, saying that he was working overtime, and that he loved her.

However, Jessa knew very well where Sawyer had been that whole week. He never once set foot in the office.

The first day, he had been at a restaurant popular with couples. There was even a promotion where kissing would get you a free meal, and Sawyer had done that with Vanessa.

The second day, he went to an amusement park. Some ice cream had dripped on Vanessa, and he had looked at her with heat in his eyes.

On the third day, Sawyer brought Vanessa to a private archery range. It was a place even Jessa was not allowed. But there, Sawyer was pressed close to Vanessa as he taught her how to shoot.

Vanessa had sent her pictures of their escapades.

Every single picture was proof of Sawyer’s infidelity.

Jessa looked at them for a very long time before saving screenshots of all of those messages.

Jessa’s phone rang. It was an overseas number.

When she picked up, a man’s deep and gentle voice sounded.

“Jessa, are you sure you want to take the Pitt Group for all it’s got and leave Sawyer?”

Jessa calmly made an assenting noise. “We can start our collaboration now, Mr. Grant.”

After she hung up, the screen of her phone went dark. Then, it lit up again with a new text.

[Have you gone to bed? Sawyer said he’s drunk, so he’s resting at mine.]

The attached picture showed Sawyer naked, his back reddened by scratches from long nails.

[By the way. While we were busy earlier, Sawyer said he hates those fake and devious women who are good at negotiating. He prefers someone like me, who could give up her life for him. You should be smart enough to know that your best move is to leave on your own, right?]

Jessa threw her phone away, but it kept ringing with incoming texts from the corner.

Later, Jessa collected all the screenshots and sent them to her lawyer in an encrypted file.

Her plan was already in motion. With another month and all this evidence, she could make sure that she could be rid of Sawyer while walking away with everything under their shared name.

As for the building blocks she was putting together overseas, they would survive any kind of accident that happened from then on.