A Vengeful Ex-Wife novel Chapter 38

James furiously looked at the phone in his hand. He really wanted to beat the bodyguard up right now. But he suppressed the annoyance in his heart and said in his coldest voice, "Leave Maria Song alone now. I don't care whether she's dead or alive. Don't ever call me again if it's just about her."

"James Xi!" This time, a woman's voice came through the other end of the line. It was soft and pleasant to the ears.

James suddenly fell silent. He couldn't remember a time that his name sounded this good when mentioned by someone else.

When she noticed that James didn't respond, Maria didn't mind and continued in a weak voice, "You know what? It's all your fault that I can't even get up from the bed right now."

This time, James was totally speechless. 'This woman is really unreasonable. How can she blame me for her dysmenorrhea?" he thought to himself.

"When I was single, I never had dysmenorrhea during my period. But I started suffering from it because I was not well taken care of after I gave birth to your son. Didn't you feel guilty at all?" Maria was actually telling the truth. She suffered from dysmenorrhea after she gave birth to Arthur. There was a long silence before James finally uttered, "The baby..."

However, Maria interrupted him at once, "Stop! I know what you're going to say. You will only say that you didn't force me to give birth to the baby. If you really dare say it, you are definitely a scum! And don't forget. If it weren't for Arthur, your grandpa wouldn't give you all the power over HL Group this early."

Back then, James had to get married so suddenly because his grandfather, Augustine Xi, urged him to do so.

And Augustine promised him that he could take over HL Group if he could give Augustine a great -grandson. Otherwise, Augustine would never hand over the company to him.

At that time, James thought that his grandfather's wish was not that difficult to fulfill. After all, he would get married and have a baby sooner or later. It wouldn't do him any harm if he did it earlier than planned. So he agreed to meet the ladies of the Song family with Augustine.

As he was reminded of the past, James' anger subsided. He then said. "I'm not the only parent of that baby." When he remembered his son, the desire to distance himself from Maria came back to him.

"Yes, you're right. But a pure and innocent girl married you without hesitation, let you do whatever you wanted, and gave birth to your child."

'Let me do whatever I wanted...' This made James think of those nights he spent with Maria.

He swallowed hard and loosened his tie to smoothen his breath.

"Our son's gone now, and the whole world has punished me. Do you still have the heart to ignore my unhealthy body that was also caused by you?"

Maria's words made sense, but James didn't want to give in to her this way. So he countered, "Don't forget that we are divorced now. I have no obligation to look after you."

"Okay, that's it! Tell your bodyguard to go away. I don't need him!" This time, it was Maria who hung up the phone.

She then returned the phone to the bodyguard, put away the dagger expressionlessly, and said, "You may leave now."

The bodyguard looked at her with a worried expression on his face and said, "Ms. Song, are you sure you're okay to be alone here?" He could see that she was much paler now than earlier.

Maria was surprised, and she couldn't help raising her eyebrows. She didn't expect that the bodyguard cared for her. Tears welled up in her eyes as she smiled brightly. "Of course! Don't worry about me." She had never needed other people to rely on. Perhaps that was one of the reasons why she could still survive until now.

She had gone through a lot of difficult days in her life. Such a pain from dysmenorrhea was nothing to her at all.

Actually, she called James because she wanted to make him feel sorry for her. But she didn't know if it worked.

It didn't matter. Even if James wouldn't come over, he would probably remember everything she said to him just now. Through those words, she wanted to make him feel uneasy, lose his appetite, and have difficulty sleeping. But it would only happen if he still had some conscience left in him.

As soon as the bodyguard walked out of her room, Maria was left alone. She turned down the temperature of the air conditioner, wrapped her body in the quilt, and closed her eyes to sleep.

"Maria, sleep now. Once you've fallen asleep, you won't feel the pain in your belly anymore," she told herself.