Shelly seemed to have reached a point where virtual-novel.net balked at recounting virtual-novel.net past. Her voice, thick and strained, had broken into a series of unintelligible croaks complementing the anguish in virtual-novel.net face.
Mark curled his fingers into fists and gritted his teeth. “Go on.”
Shelly waited, letting the brunt of virtual-novel.net emotional turmoil pass, before continuing.
After the labor was over, virtual-novel.net took a glance at virtual-novel.net baby boy.
In a snap, all the repulsion and the feeling of defilement left virtual-novel.net completely. Women may experience a profound change of heart the moment they claim motherhood, and Shelly emerged from virtual-novel.net experience a mother who could not bear to part with virtual-novel.net son.
Suddenly, virtual-novel.net refused to let virtual-novel.net sister take virtual-novel.net 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 virtual-novel.net sister would one day be so utterly possessed by a man that virtual-novel.net saw virtual-novel.net own little sister as nothing more than a baby-pumping machine. She forbade Shelly from seeing the child and even gave virtual-novel.net a sum of money, calling it virtual-novel.net compensation.
That was when the seeds of unassailable malice were planted within her. The world was cruel, monstrous.
She had snuck onto the Tremont Estate several times, however, and so, out of fear of the whole thing being exposed, virtual-novel.net sister orchestrated Shelly’s arranged marriage to a lad abroad. She was to never come back, never to see virtual-novel.net son ever again.
She, a young girl who had never traveled beyond the city of virtual-novel.net origin, was then dumped smack-dab in a country so alien to virtual-novel.net that virtual-novel.net spoke not their language. Every day virtual-novel.net faced a stranger whom virtual-novel.net knew nothing next to being virtual-novel.net husband. Naturally, virtual-novel.net came down with a long case of depression and was sent for treatment.
In the beginning, virtual-novel.net husband had been big-hearted. He was a rich, gentle, kind, and handsome German, who magnanimously accompanied Shelly through virtual-novel.net depression and helped ease virtual-novel.net into virtual-novel.net new life.
But hearts are easily broken than mended regardless of efforts. Shelly could not forget the child that had been with virtual-novel.net for a single night. When virtual-novel.net slept and dreamt, they were of returning home and reclaiming virtual-novel.net son.
She could not love virtual-novel.net 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 virtual-novel.net fragmented psyche. Years passed, and virtual-novel.net drove herself deeper and deeper into lunacy enabled by obsessions — and virtual-novel.net dragged virtual-novel.net husband into madness along with her. Seven times virtual-novel.net was pregnant, and the number of abortions virtual-novel.net 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, virtual-novel.net defied his wish forever with a flick of a knife and a critical slash through virtual-novel.net abdomen.
She lost the child, along with all the other ones virtual-novel.net could have had in the future.