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My ex-husband was drugged by his enemies, but he pushed away his fiancée and grabbed me as the antidote.
After three days and three nights, Damien left coldly, kicking me away as I trembled all over.
"Still lingering in bed? Get lost!"
"What? Not enough? Or did you think I forgave you?"
"Faye, I just got used to it. After all, you're tough. Fallon is delicate, she can't handle this stuff."
I silently cleaned myself, just as I picked up my clothes from the floor ready to leave, he called his men in.
"Wait!"
"Bring the medicine! Just in case she tries to have my baby again!"
The shrapnel in my heart burrowed deeper, I trembled all over, but still swallowed back the metallic taste in my mouth.
It's a good thing he doesn't know that five years ago, his heart full of shrapnel was switched into my body.
And the heart beating inside him is mine.

Heart Pierced By Shattered Shrapnel

I finally came to my senses, remembering what had just happened in the basement...


My head ached terribly, but my heart hurt even more.


Damien grabbed my throat in a vise-like grip. I couldn't breathe or speak a word, only desperately shaking my head.


Seeing me about to lose consciousness, he finally released his hold and shoved me to the ground. In doing so, he accidentally knocked over our son's urn, scattering the ashes everywhere.


Panicked, I crawled on the floor, frantically trying to gather them up bit by bit.


Fallon walked over and whispered in my ear:


"Faye, don't bother picking them up. Those aren't even your son's ashes. I switched them out with my dog's ashes ages ago!"


"Your son's ashes have already been eaten by my dog!"


I stared at the ashes in my hands, finally breaking down in sobs.


In one motion, I flung them into the air, the particles drifting everywhere.


I lost all control, shoving Fallon to the ground.


Damien rushed over immediately, slapping me hard across the face.


"Faye! That was your son! How could you desecrate his ashes like that! And assault someone!"


"If you're so capable, why couldn't you fight off the kidnappers back then? Why couldn't you save our son?"


From the crowd, a man rushed forward to help me up.I raised my head to see Nolan, my partner from a mission five years ago.


My heart skipped a beat, but it was already too late.


"Do you have any idea what Faye has done for you?"


I panicked and quickly looked at Damien's face.


"Faye, what else have you done for me?"


"Besides killing our son, abandoning me when I was critically ill, running off with the money and another man, what else have you done? I remember every single thing you did, crystal clear!"


"Does he know you've been whoring around? Does he know I've had my way with you for days?"


Damien approached me step by step, his eyes bloodshot.


But then he burst into laughter, laughing until tears streamed down his face.


"Damien, show some respect! We're just old colleagues!"


But Damien's men quickly restrained Nolan.


I rushed to stand in front of him, but Damien pushed me aside and threw another punch.


"What's the matter?"Heart aching for him?"


"Or are you playing the hero again? Trying to save someone once more? Faye, let me tell you, you're only going to hurt him this way!"


One punch after another, until Fallon pulled her away.


"Brother, my stomach... it hurts so much..."


"Sister, I only told you about my pregnancy, you knew very well, yet you deliberately pushed me down, how could you be so cruel!"


"Not only did you kill your own child, but you want to kill my brother's and my child too?"


Chapter 3