Dangerous Love: You Are My One and Only Bride novel Chapter 1582

Shelly seemed to have reached a point where she balked at recounting her past. Her voice, thick and strained, had broken into a series of unintelligible croaks complementing the anguish in her face.

Mark curled his fingers into fists and gritted his teeth. “Go on.”

Shelly waited, letting the brunt of her emotional turmoil pass, before continuing.

After the labor was over, she took a glance at her baby boy.

In a snap, all the repulsion and the feeling of defilement left her completely. Women may experience a profound change of heart the moment they claim motherhood, and Shelly emerged from her experience a mother who could not bear to part with her son.

Suddenly, she refused to let her sister take her child away.

To stem unwanted developments from this incident, Shelly’s sister took the baby back home the next day. The baby was then christened as Mark Tremont.

Never had Shelly ever imagined that her sister would one day be so utterly possessed by a man that she saw her own little sister as nothing more than a baby-pumping machine. She forbade Shelly from seeing the child and even gave her a sum of money, calling it her compensation.

She could not love her husband, let alone nurture a life out of this union.

Perhaps it was more accurate and truer to say that Shelly never did recover from her fragmented psyche. Years passed, and she drove herself deeper and deeper into lunacy enabled by obsessions—and she dragged her husband into madness along with her. Seven times she was pregnant, and the number of abortions she made were equal in number.

None of it beat the last, most gruesome one. Her husband, desperate to have the child nurtured, imprisoned Shelly at home. In response, she defied his wish forever with a flick of a knife and a critical slash through her abdomen.

She lost the child—along with all the other ones she could have had in the future.