My Perfect Marriage Was His Perfect Crime novel Chapter 1

The effects of the aborticide were too strong. With Nina's body, she'd never be able to have children again. And with our full support, Oliver's position was unshakable.

"When she wakes up and finds out her child is gone, her uterus removed… have you thought about how devastated she'll be?"

After a long silence, Sterling's cold voice finally rang out. "For Luna, I have to eliminate all potential threats."

"This is what she owes Luna."

"Besides, she and Luna are sisters. Luna's child will be raised by her—what more could she want?"

A sharp pain tore through my abdomen as if someone had ripped my wound open. I could almost see that tiny, fully-formed boy again, his skin a deathly shade of purple, struggling weakly—until he stopped breathing, bit by bit.

"You've gone too far. I'm afraid one day you'll regret this, Sterling. Don't think I haven't noticed—you do have feelings for Nina."

"If it weren't to make up for her, Luna wouldn't have insisted on breaking off our engagement, running off abroad, refusing to come back even now…" Sterling's tone was indifferent. "Letting her carry my child even once was already Luna's concession."

"I owe Luna too much. I can never repay her in this lifetime."

Ethan's voice was furious. "Then why didn't you just keep chasing Luna?"

The air between them froze.

I lay on the hospital bed, tears silently streaming down my face, not daring to make a sound.

"Why isn't she awake yet?"

Such a vicious, calculating heart.

The man I had loved so deeply, the husband I thought had given me a perfect marriage—it was all a lie.

Sterling had personally murdered our child—all for his illegitimate one.

All for the fake heiress who stole eighteen years of my life, so that her child could inherit the Blackwood family. And he had the audacity to say I owed her.

The thought sent a violent tremor through me.

The pain in my abdomen flared, my face turning deathly pale, but it still couldn't compare to the pain in my heart.