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My mercenary husband, Lucas Kensington used his body to “save” Sofia, his female teammate–seven times in one night.
That’s what he told me when he returned from the jungle, holding Sofia in his arms. She was bruised, barely clothed, and nestled against his chest. like a fallen angel
He knelt in front of me, eyes full of guilt–but never let go of her.
“Lila,” he said, “Sofia was poisoned saving me. I couldn’t let her die.”
And to show me how much it hurt him to betray me… he carved seven deep gashes into his own flesh.
That was just the beginning.
Every time her symptoms returned, he rushed to her side. And every time, he cut himself again.
Six months later, he stood in front of me with ninety–nine scars etched into his skin and a baby in another woman’s belly.
“Lila,” he said, voice low and pleading, “you can’t have children. But Sofia agreed… once the baby is born, it’s yours. They’ll call you ‘Mom.‘ We can go back to the way things were.
I stared at him.
At the woman he cradled.
At the life growing inside her.
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And I smiled and calmly said, “Okay.”
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I crumpled up the pregnancy test report I’d been hiding and threw it into
the fire.
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The flames flickered as Sofia coughed twice from the smoke.
Lucas immediately pulled her into his arms and frowned at me.
“Lila, Sofia has agreed. Once the child is born, she’ll give it to you to raise. You don’t have to threaten her. She won’t ruin our relationship.”
I stirred the ashes in the basin. The smoke made my eyes red.
I spoke calmly, “Lucas, let’s get divorced.”
Lucas frantically reached out to grab my hand and begged again.
“Lila, please stop making a scene, okay? Sofia took a bullet for me and was poisoned to save me. I owe her two lives. Giving her one child isn’t too much!”
His tone was humble, but everything he said was to defend Sofia.
Seeing my expression, the others couldn’t sit still anymore. Lucas’s brothers all knelt in front of me.
“Lila, even if you’re upset, we have to speak up for Sofia today.”
“She’s a pure, innocent girl who lost her V–card for Lucas. It wouldn’t be wrong if Lucas married her!”
“Lila, you’re a housewife. You don’t understand how dangerous it was when Sofia risked her life to save Lucas at gunpoint. We all saw what she sacrificed for Lucas.”
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“If you ask me, Lucas should give Sofia a proper status. Don’t let her suffer in silence!”
“Shut up!” Lucas roared, cutting them off. “Lila will always be my only wife! As for Sofia, I’ll spend the rest of my life making it up to her.”
He looked down at the pregnant woman in his arms, unconsciously showing a tender expression.
Bitterness rose in my throat. I opened my mouth but couldn’t speak.
The others didn’t know, but Lucas did.
I had once fought alongside him and took a knife to the heart for him.
I was unconscious for three months. When I woke up, he knelt by my hospital bed with red eyes, begging me to quit the army and stop taking risks.
He said he would protect me for life.
And now he was kneeling in front of me again, but this time to protect another woman.
I turned and left in silence.
Lucas quickly caught up. He gently draped his coat over my shoulders and tucked my hair behind my ear.
“It’s cold outside. Be careful not to catch a chill. Lila, you never learn to take care of yourself.” His warm scent on the clothes instantly surrounded
- me.
I touched my belly, almost ready to tell him I was pregnant too, but his words interrupted me.
“Lila, Sofia gets cold easily. Let her live in that temperature–controlled
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villa in the suburbs. You can go rest on the island for a while.”
My words got stuck in my throat. I swallowed them down.
Years ago, when I took a knife for him and developed heart problems that left me weak and sensitive to cold, he specially built me a temperature- controlled villa where it felt like spring all year round.
But that island villa was surrounded by sea winds on all sides. My body couldn’t handle it at all.
* we’d never gone back. It
Except for a few days during our honeymoon,
had been abandoned for a long time.
He used to give me everything.
Now he wanted me to give them up for Sofia.
His heart was no longer with me.
I lowered my eyes and replied, “Okay.”
Lucas happily kissed my forehead. “Lila, you’re always so understanding.”
He turned and went back inside, taking Sofia’s hand and breathing on it to warm it up, his eyes full of affection.
I clenched my cold fingertips, trembling slightly.
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