Amirah gave no reply, only struggling wildly, but against her father’s strength, she could not break free.
The others could only sigh in silence. Before the kidnapping, she had been fine, but after being released, she had turned mad.
Very soon, every gaze shifted toward me. In their eyes, Amirah had become like this because of me.
“Sevi, do you see? Just because you refused to pay the ransom, the kidnappers tortured Amirah into madness!”
“She’s your wife! For money, you didn’t even care about her life; you’re simply not human.”
“Even beasts aren’t as cold-blooded as you!”
“Amirah marrying you was the worst mistake of her life!”
Facing their accusations, I remained silent.
My mother urged me to take back what I had said. In her eyes, refusing to pay the ransom had already been my fault, and now that Amirah had gone insane, insisting on divorce was only pushing her into deeper despair.
I shook my head. “We must divorce!”
“Beast!” Elianna’s long-suppressed grief and fury exploded. She lunged at me, clawing wildly, but I stepped aside and she fell to the ground, a front tooth snapping off.
“My tooth…”
“Mom!”
“Sevi, my sister, ended up like this because of you. I’ll fight you to the death!”
Simon Pacheco charged at me in rage. I raised my leg and kicked him aside.
That single act ignited the fury of the Pacheco relatives. In an instant, more than a dozen people swarmed me.
Two fists could not match four hands, and within moments, I was beaten to the ground, forced to cover my head.
Moments later, bloodied and bruised, I forced myself back to my feet. I pulled out my phone to call the police, but my father snatched it away.
“What are you doing?”
“Calling the police!”
The relatives froze in panic. They had all just laid hands on me, and if the police came, not a single one of them could escape.
“Aminah, what’s wrong with you?”
Just then, Amirah suddenly collapsed, fainting on the spot. Nikolai rushed to call an ambulance and hurried her to the hospital.
After the doctor’s examination, we were told the shocking news: Amirah was pregnant.
“Doctor, abort the child.”
“You bastard, what did you say?” My father’s eyes widened in disbelief, and the relatives stared at me as though I were a monster.
They had already witnessed my cruelty, but now my words shattered the last of their illusions. A man could be this ruthless, refusing to save his wife, and now rejecting his own child.