Worship The Ground You Walk On

Ever since Conrad was taken away, Claudia had been living her life in a daze. She felt as if a piece of her heart had been cut out.

She was like a walking corpse for three days. Finally, she got a medical certificate from the hospital confirming her recovery from the allergy. Then, she couldn't help but sigh with relief.

The first thing she wanted to do was to take the diagnosis to Ben and show it to him, but she lingered in front of the hospital.

She was well aware of how much he hated her.

How hostile he had been to her, and every word he had said had echoed in her mind. She kept tightening her grip on her handbag.

In the evening, Ben came home for a rare visit, and Claudia made some pudding for him.

She remembered that he had always liked this kind of pudding since he was very young.

Claudia happily knocked on the door with the pudding in her hand. However, after knocking several times, no one responded in the study. She vaguely heard the sound of running water coming from inside.

She gently pushed open the door of the study. She put down the pudding. She thought he would feel better after eating that dessert. Then she would tell him that she had recovered and wanted to get her baby back.

The window of the study was open. The gentle evening breeze blew away the papers on the desk. Claudia bent down to pick up the papers and carefully gathered them, but she accidentally touched the keyboard with her fingers, causing the black screen of that computer to light up.

The webpage on the screen was Facebook, but Ben never used any social media, and the profile page was not his as well.

It was Hanna's profile page.

And the photo in the photo album he browsed showed Ben smiling under the shade of a tree with Hanna in his arms. They were wearing a white couple's shirt and looked happy. Both of them had a look of happiness and joy that would make others envy them. They looked like they were meant to be...

The photo must have been taken a few years ago. It was also clear from the time of uploading that Hanna had not deleted the photo after such a long time. Then Claudia wondered what it meant.

Claudia lowered her eyes and took a deep breath, but she felt a pain somewhere in her chest.

“What are you looking at?”

only in a towel. He looked at Claudia at the table with

startled. The moment she slipped and was about to fall, Ben took a big step and quickly grabbed her arm with his hand. At

topless and slightly damp with droplets of water. And she could clearly feel his sturdy muscles, sense of

of water, looking blurry, unfathomable, and misty. And he couldn't take

looked away. Her heart started to

looked at the webpage and the photo on the screen that he

his tall figure. He used one hand to cup her chin, not with much force, but enough to lift her face, forcing Claudia to look at himself. His thin lips slowly parted, “Who allows you to touch my

slightly. She took her cell phone out of her pocket with one hand

ridiculous word. He repeated it in a low, mellow voice that made it hard to tell if he

She felt a shiver run through her heart as she looked

“Sorry.”

She typed again.

was afraid of angering him, or else she

He gave her a deep look before releasing his hand. At the same time, he said those two words quickly in

"Get out!"

not dare be slow. When she came back to her

Ben frowned and picked up the pudding that she had left on the table. After he

There was also a complicated look in his

next room, as soon as the door closed, Claudia covered her burning cheeks and leaned against the door. She was so

remembered the photo on his computer and felt

about the medical records she had in

and went downstairs. He was wearing an ironed suit shirt and

to the woman cooking breakfast with the nanny in the kitchen. Her slender back showed the gentleness and beauty of a woman.

searched his memory many times, he did not find any part related

taste of that pudding last night? Could it be that

with a bowl of cereal, placed

him and took out the medical record from earlier. As she handed it to him, her gaze looked bright and seemed to harbor too much