"Of course you haven't because I'm probably not even human to you. When you first rescued me, you probably thought of it as saving some weakened animal that was about to die, instead of a human, didn't you? Which is why you have no idea that, when you ran me out without my identification card, I couldn't even find a hotel to stay even if I had the money for it. To stay alive, I had to walk all the way back to your house, hoping that I could get my card back and take a few clothes with me because I had nowhere to stay. I didn't want to cling onto you. I stayed the entire night outside by the bushes outside your mountain mansion, and do you have any idea on how I pulled through? Do you know how scared and helpless I felt? You don't, because you have always objectified me instead of treating me as a human being. We've been living together like a married couple for years. I know you best, and I dare say that I'm the woman who loves you most in the world, which was why I didn't beg or try to talk my way out o f it when you chased me out. What is it that I am doing wrong, Alex? I didn't even let a tear drop that day you tossed me out. No matter how much I loved you, I kept my promise and left immediately the moment you said you weren't going to let me stay with you any longer, but what about you?
"I'm a person. I need to live. Noah saved me and loved me, and so does his mother. I've finally learnt what
love feels like when I'm with them. We might be poor, we starved to the point that we could barely walk when we were running away from you, but we still love one another. I feel loved and warm. From the day I was born up until now, for the past thirty-five years. This had been the first time I had gotten a taste of love. Do I not deserve love, Alex? What crime have I committed that I don't even deserve to love and be loved? You say that I'm vicious, that I called you ' Hubby’ every single time through the past eight years we spent together living like a married couple, but managed to forget all about you and find someone else in just four months, but what about you?
"It's been eight years, haven't I failed to warm you up t o me? Sure, it only took me four months to forget about you and find someone else, but you've never loved me, not even for a minute! Otherwise you wouldn't have chased me out without so much as a warning, would you? That day you chased me out, have you thought back to how I call you ’Hubby’ every night, Alex? Have you thought of me as the only woman who is bearing your child, and had lost three children for your sake? You can't answer? You're not saying anything? That's because you haven't even thought about it before, have you? If that's the case, what right do you have to come and call me heartless and vicious? Aren't you just bullying me because you know I don't have the power to fight back? Does it feel good, Alex, to bully a woman who's borne your children, who called you ’Hubby’ night after night and ended up being tossed out of your place with every
last penny on her taken away from her?"
At this point, the entire place had fallen into deadly silence, and even Noah was stunned. He had known Jane as someone that was gentle-hearted and down-to -earth, but he never imagined that she would be this good at arguing. The composure and despair in her tone had caused each one of Alex's subordinates to tear up in response. Garrett was especially emotional amongst them all, and was already crying.
Jane seemed to have calmed down after saying all she needed to say, and casually asked, "Alex, for the sake o f how well I treated you in the past, kill only me and set Noah free, okay?"
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