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Abigail decided to file for divorce after nearly losing her life in
the fire.
As the bookshelf began to collapse, Abigail pushed her son Marcus away with all her strength. She was then crushed beneath its weight, fighting to survive.
Yet the child she risked everything for seemed oblivious to her struggle. Instead, he rushed to another woman.
“Michelle, are you okay? Please be safe! I’ll be so sad if anything happens to you!” Marcus cried out.
Michelle Smith lay on the ground, acting utterly defeated despite only suffering minor burns.
“I’m fine, Marcus, don’t worry,” she reassured him.
The Marcus Abigail had known was always reserved and even–tempered, just like his father.
Yet now, her son was clinging to Michelle, crying uncontrollably and trembling with fear as if she meant the world to him.
The pain in Abigail’s heart intensified as Anthony burst into the
room.
He barely spared a glance at her trapped form beneath the
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bookshelf, instead rushing to Michelle’s side with worried eyes and gathering both her and Marcus in his arms.
“Marcus! Michelle!” he exclaimed.
“Dad, please help Michelle first! She got hurt trying to save me!” Marcus pleaded.
Anthony nodded and anxiously checked their injuries.
Abigail quietly watched the scene unfold before her. The three of them looked like a perfect family, while she lay forgotten- nothing more than an outsider.
Despite the suffocating pain in her chest, Abigail’s survival instinct forced her to cry out.
“Help me, please help me…”
The three finally turned their attention to her. She watched as Anthony and Marcus’s concerned expressions turned cold the moment their gazes landed on her.
“Mom, Michelle is weak. We need to help her first. Just wait here; the firefighters will be here soon.
“Michelle saved Marcus. I can’t ignore that. Come on, Michelle, let’s go,” Anthony said, cradling Michelle in his arms. Marcus clutched his father’s shirt as they turned to leave.
“No. It’s too dangerous. Help her,” Michelle protested with apparent concern.
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But Anthesy and Marcas didn’t even look back.
“Shell be fine, Anthony said dismissively.
Thats right, Michelle. Mom’s tough–she’s always faking illness anyway. And the firefighters are coming,” Marcus added coldly.
Anthony tightened his grip around Michelle and headed for the axit, leaving Abigail trapped in the fire.
The fire grew Sercer, quickly engulfing the entire kindergarten.
Abigail watched their retreating figures with vacant eyes, her heart sinking to new depths.
“as this the son she had carried for ten months and just risked her life to save?
Was this the husband she had loved devotedly for eight years?
The two people she loved most had abandoned her for another woman, leaving her alone to face death in this inferno.
Abigail couldn’t even cry–whether the fire had dried her tears or disappointment had numbed her beyond sadness, she wasn’t sure.
She realized her entire life had been a joke, and a bitter laugh escaped her lips.
Her vision blurred as thick smoke suffocated her. As her eyes
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closed, Abigail had only one thought: if she survived this, she would never make a fool of herself again.
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Abigail drifted into a long dream, reliving the painful chapters of her disastrous marriage.
At eighteen, her family arranged a marriage with the Robinson family for business reasons. On her coming–of–age day, Abigail first laid eyes on Anthony.
Fresh out of college at twenty–two, he radiated confidence as he took the reins of the family business. He was everything a young man should be–ambitious, charming, and undeniably handsome.
In that moment, Abigail knew he was the man she was destined to marry.
Like any young girl experiencing first love, she fell head over heels for him.
But Anthony’s heart belonged to another–Michelle, the adopted daughter of Anthony’s family. Michelle’s mother had been a close friend of Anthony’s mother, Diana Robinson, and their bond ran deep.
When tragedy struck years earlier and Michelle’s mother died in a car accident, the Robinsons took her in. Growing up alongside Anthony, she was practically family, cherished by Diana.
When Abigail was twenty, twenty–six–year–old Anthony suffered a severe leg injury during a construction site inspection. Doctors
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warned he might be permanently disabled.
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It was then that Michelle chose to leave, claiming to pursue studies abroad, while Abigail remained faithfully by his bedside. When Anthony fell into depression, she tirelessly encouraged him and helped with his rehabilitation until he fully recovered.
After that, Anthony proposed, and Abigail finally married the man of her dreams. At twenty–two, she gave birth to Marcus.
Abigail still remembered the difficult delivery that turned from natural birth to an emergency C–section. Despite the ordeal, seeing Anthony’s devoted care as he stayed awake night after night made everything worthwhile.
She had believed they would live happily ever after as a family of three.
But when Marcus turned one month old, everything changed. Michelle returned, and the moment Anthony laid eyes on her again, Abigail sensed a profound shift in her husband’s demeanor.
He grew distant and unpredictable, often staying out late. At the same time, her family business began to falter, teetering on the brink of bankruptcy.
The following year, Anthony’s father fell gravely ill and passed away, leaving only Diana to manage the family.
As Abigail’s family company faced its decline, Diana took Marcus away, claiming Abigail’s post–pregnancy health made.
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her unfit to care for Marcus.
Together with Michelle, Diana took over raising Marcus, pushing Abigail to the sidelines.
For four long years, Abigail clung to a comforting lie–that Michelle was just a shadow from the past, and Diana would never turn her grandson against his mother.
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Then came today. She finally found a chance to pick Marcus up from kindergarten when a fire broke out in the building.
As she watched Anthony and Marcus leave with Michelle, the truth hit her like a physical blow.
She had been fooling herself all along.
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