Chapter 8

Kevin's words were like needles pricking my heart.

"If Jeremy buys a dress for Mollie, then it's normal that I buy you one too, right?"

As Kevin insisted on not taking my money, I had no choice but to tell him that I would repay him in another way at a future time as a form of courtesy.

This time, he did not refuse but smiled instead.

I planned to buy something for Kevin in return, but because we had sex in the changing room a few minutes ago, my legs were still trembling from it. After just taking a few steps, my legs gave way and I almost fell onto him.

"Are you perhaps exhausted from what we did earlier?" Kevin joked. "I'll carry you back to the car."

His words reminded me of the sex we had inside of the changing room, down to its little details. My face turned red immediately.

As I tried to hide my reddened face, Kevin carried me off the floor and took me back to his car. He did not let me go until I was safely seated in the passenger seat.

His caring personality and flirtatious actions made my heart race uncontrollably our way back.

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After saying goodbye to Kevin outside the elevator, I returned to my unit.

When I opened the door, the first thing I heard was Jeremy joking with my mother and mother-in-law in the living room.

When my mother noticed me coming back, she turned to look at me and said, "That's a pretty dress."

However, Jeremy's expression darkened when he noticed the dress.

He tried to suppress his anger and asked, "Is that the newest design from LuxVogue?"

"Yes," I replied nonchalantly. "Why?"

Jeremy jumped out of the couch and yelled at me. "April Hadley! We haven't even paid off our mortgage yet and I've been working my *** off just to pay for all of our loans! How can you buy a dress that costs 5-digits without asking me first?"

My mother-in-law's expression also turned sour when she heard that. She pointed at my dress and asked, "Are you telling me that dress costs more than 10 thousand dollars?"

"Not only that," Jeremy mocked. "Even the high heels she's wearing cost around 20 thousand dollars."

Even my mother took their side and scolded me too. "Are you out of your mind? Did you just spend more than 30 thousand dollars on a dress and a pair of heels? How dumb can you be?"

It was obvious that I ignited a fight with the dress and high heels that I was wearing.

I looked at Jeremy as if he was a petty clown and decided to completely ignore his anger.

I could tell from his expression that he felt that I was challenging him. He picked up the paper bag that was on the couch.

It was a paper bag from LuxVogue. He threw that at me and roared, "I even went and bought you a dress from LuxVogue as a surprise. Looks like I shouldn't have done that."

The paper bag fell to the floor and the dress fell out of the bag.

It was a yellow dress. I could tell from its design that it was from a collection dated a year ago and was on sale.

I picked the dress up and all I could feel was insulted.

I walked to Jeremy and threw the dress at him. "Why don't you give this to Mollie?" I scoffed and returned to the bedroom.

Even though I had closed the door, I could still hear my mother-in-law and Jeremy complaining about me. To make matters worse, not only did my mother not help me, but she even joined in with them.

I could not help but find the irony in all that was happening to me. Even when they knew that Jeremy was cheating on me, they did not blame him. Instead, they tried to convince me to put up with his actions.

They even confronted me as if I was a sinner just because I bought an expensive dress.

I covered my ears as tears wet my pillow.

When my tears finally dried up, I heard my mother knocking on the door and calling my name.

I got out of bed and opened the door. As soon as my mother walked in, the first thing she asked was, "Can't you return the dress?"

"Why would I return it when there's no problem with it? Also, I bought this dress on my own, why should I return it?"

My words only angered my mother even more.

"You ungrateful brat! I'm just trying to fix your relationship with Jeremy and his mother! Can't you understand the situation at hand?"

"Then, why don't you ask what Jeremy has been doing the past few days? I've been staying in the hospital for a whole week. He didn't even come to visit me! All he did was have fun with another woman!"

When I said that, I was reminded of what the doctor told me when I left the hospital. It only pained me even more.

The doctor told me that because the miscarriage had harmed my uterus, and because I did not recover well after that, it would be hard for me to get pregnant again.

"He already knows he's in the wrong. Come on, let's apologize to Jeremy about the dress."

My mother tried to drag me out of the room.

"No! I'm not going! He made me lose my baby and I might not even be able to get pregnant again! What's wrong with me buying a dress?"

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