Loveless Marriage

There were still twenty days before the sentencing of Isabella’s father. If she failed to come up with the money by then, her father would spend the rest of his life in prison.

An investor?

Isabella pondered Mr. Smith’s words. She took out her phone and scrolled through her contacts until she found the number that she knew by heart.

At first, she had saved Christian’s number with the name “Husband”. She had even pinned his contact at the very top so that his number would be the very first one that she saw when she opened the contacts list on her phone.

However, in the past three years, Christian had rarely called or texted her. After a while, she changed his contact name into “Christian”. Unless it was urgent, she did not want to bother him.

Isabella threw the cigarette butt into the toilet and exited the cubicle. As she rinsed her mouth, she dialed his number.

Her voice was a little hoarse from the cigarette. She had to do something about it, or else Christian would be able to tell over the phone and get upset.

“Hello, who is this?”

The line connected almost immediately, but what chilled Isabella to the core was that a woman answered the phone. She spoke with a natural ease, as though she had answered phone calls for Christian many times.

didn’t say anything, the woman

asked in a strained

his nickname casually, as if she was his wife. “May I know whom am I speaking

the woman could finish speaking. Her hand was trembling so badly

her phone, Isabella saw her own face. At some point, it

had been married for three years. By most people’s standards,

hard to add her to his contacts

was the woman who had

minutes ago, she felt

always treated her with indifference. Isabella had suspected before that he might be having an affair, but if that were the case,

woman say his name so intimately over the phone today,

her heart grew

care whether or not Christian would come

work at exactly 5:30pm. On her way home, she stopped by a