"Madam, your son had an accident and is in the hospital. Please come back quickly!"
Upon receiving the call from the nanny, Giovanna Nelson rushed back to her home country. After visiting her son and learning that he was okay, she finally entered the bathroom and washed her face, feeling utterly drained.
However, a familiar voices would suddenly emanate from outside the hospital room. "Mmm... Hugo... that feels so good. I love you so much!"
"I love you too. I wish I could die in your arms!"
"Mmm... Ah..."
Giovanna froze in place, her entire body trembling as she listened to the seductive moans and heavy panting coming from outside the bathroom.
Her beloved husband and her closest friend ere actually making out in her son's hospital room!
If she hadn't returned early and taken a detour to the bathroom, she might have been completely oblivious to their actions.
She wanted to burst out of the room and confront them, but she couldn't move her feet.
It was as if her feet were encased in lead, keeping her rooted in place. She could feel her heart being torn apart inch by inch.
"Hugo, do you think Giovanna will find out that she actually gave birth to a daughter all those years ago, and the child she has been raising is actually our son?"
"If she finds out, wouldn't it be even better? The three of us can be together openly as a family!"
What?
Back then, she gave birth to a daughter?
And the child Ralph, whom she had raised single-handedly, was not her biological child but rather the product of Hugo and Elena's affair?
Giovanna felt as if a thunderbolt had struck her on the head. She could barely stay on her feet. Her heart was pierced by a knife, and the pain spread through her entire body.
How could this be happening? Why?
If Ralph wasn't her child, then where was her own child?
"Mom..."
The cries of her child reached her ears, startling Hugo and Elena, and also jolting Giovanna back to her senses.
Through the crack in the door, she saw Hugo and Elena hastily separating, their faces filled with unease.
"Why are you crying?!" Hugo, in a state of panic, hurriedly put on his pants, his face darkening.
It was great when Ralph was unconscious. His sudden cry scared Hugo to death.
Elena's eyes showed a hint of impatience, but she quickly got dressed and went to comfort the child.
"Good boy, don't cry, Mommy and Daddy are here."
As she was about to touch the child's face, Giovanna finally erupted.
"Don't you dare touch my son with your dirty hands!"
She shouted sharply and rushed out of the bathroom to embrace her son, protecting him in her arms.
It was the most instinctive reaction of a mother.
Regardless of whether Ralph was her biological child, she had poured her heart and soul into raising him, giving him all her love and care over the years.
These two scoundrels might be guilty, but the child was innocent. She couldn't bear to see her beloved child tainted by these two dirty people.
"Gio... Giovanna! What are you doing here?"
Elena turned as white as a sheet. It seemed that she didn't expect that Giovanna would suddenly appear.
Giovanna, trembling with anger, glanced at the two of them before marching up to Hugo and slapping him hard.
The child began crying again in fear.
"Giovanna, you, let me explain..."
"Get out!" Giovanna pointed to the door and roared, "Both of you, get out!"
"Giovanna... you've misunderstood..." Elena tried to reach out to her, "It's not what you think..."
"What do you mean?" Giovanna sneered and cast a sharp, mocking look at Elena, then glanced at Hugo, who was still struggling with his clothes. Her gaze was filled with cold contempt.
"Are you trying to tell me that you two were just talking after taking off your clothes, and nothing else happened? Is that what you're saying?"
"I..." Elena was at a loss for words.
The child's cries were heart-wrenching.
Giovanna had no intention of arguing with them; she just wanted them out of the room so they wouldn't scare her son any further.
But Elena acted faster. She quickly approached the child and comforted him. "Ralph, don't cry!"
She appeared like a loving mother, but she secretly pinched the child's body with force.
The child's cries became even more agonizing.
"Let go of Ralph!" Giovanna witnessed her actions and rushed to pull her away. "Don't touch him!"
Elena put on a helpless expression and pleaded, "Giovanna, let's discuss our matters later. Don't scare Ralph; he's already terrified."
"Get away from me!" Giovanna, her eyes red with fury, tried to pull Elena away but was stopped by a strong hand.
"Giovanna! That's enough!" Hugo roared, "You lay a finger on my woman and child, and you'll see what happens! Do you believe I'll kill you?"
Watching her usually gentle husband contort into such a ferocious and menacing figure, Giovanna was totally stunned. Tears silently streamed down her face.
She locked her gaze onto him, her chest constricting painfully, and after a great struggle, she managed to utter, "Why?"
"Do you even have the right to ask me why?" Hugo ground his teeth, adding, "You, of all people, do you have no sense of what a dirty bitch you are?"
Giovanna stared at him, feeling something inside her shatter. Her heart sank into a void.
This was her husband...
This was the man she had loved since she was seventeen...
He was protecting his mistress and accusing her of being a dirty woman.
She couldn't even cry; she only felt a deep sense of sorrow.
"I just want to ask you one thing," she croaked, "Where is my daughter?"