The chandelier smashed to pieces beside me, shards of glass slicing my arm and cheek. Through the pain, I could still see faintly in the distance.
Veronica had shielded Yohan fiercely beneath her body. The main frame of the chandelier crashed down on her back. Yohan was still in shock.
But voices spoke nearby, “Mr. Larrison only has a grazed knee. Ms. Gerosa, did you really need all those resources to save him?”
“Your husband is bleeding heavily! If he doesn’t get treatment soon, he could die!”
Before losing consciousness, I saw Veronica carry Yohan away, disappearing from my sight.
When I opened my eyes again, I was lying in a hospital bed.
The nurses whispered gossip outside the door.
“Did you hear? Ms. Gerosa fractured her back trying to save Mr. Larrison!”
“That’s right! She wasn’t even fully recovered herself, yet she was rushing to apply medicine and feed Mr. Larrison soup. Her own husband didn’t get that kind of treatment!”
“Tsk. She and Mr. Larrison are true love, aren’t they? A perfect match that’s the kind of chemistry that makes a couple.”
It was a long time before Veronica finally came to my hospital room. She held a half-bowl of soup, intending to feed it to me.
I threw it to the floor. “I don’t want leftovers from someone else.”
Hearing this, her face filled with guilt. “William, I’m sorry. Yohan saved my life first, so I repaid her with mine. It’s a common thing as human beings.”
“But I promise, this will never happen again.”
His life mattered were precious, but how about me?
I didn’t argue with her. Instead, I threw the document at her. “Sign this.”
Without even glancing at it, she signed her name and I smiled. If she had just opened one page, she would have known it was a divorce agreement.
After signing, Veronica said she wanted to make it up to me and take me to Paris for a break.
But as soon as we arrived at the airport, her phone rang. It was Yohan.
On the other end, he was sobbing, gasping for breath, saying he was scared alone in the hospital.
Veronica hung up. Her eyes glanced elsewhere, looking worried.
“William, there’s an urgent project at the institute. I have to go back. You go ahead, I’ll meet you at the airport as soon as I’m done.”
But I waited from daylight until night and Veronica never showed up. Instead, Yohan updated his social media.