A Rainy Night Reunion at My Noodle Cart Chapter 03

A Rainy Night Reunion at My Noodle Cart Chapter 03

In the car, Cameron irritably tugged at his tie and reached out to put on a song.

Soft music filled the space and took the edge off the silence.

I stared at my reflection in the window and suddenly heard Lila’s voice again, “Everything you have, I’m taking it all.”

I curled my lips in a bitter half-smile.

She succeeded.

The day Cameron carried Lila inside, a crack opened up between us.

Endless arguments slowly replaced the gentle words we used to trade.

At first, Cameron would still explain, “She’s your sister.” Then he’d add, “If it matters to you, it matters to me.”

But after I finally snapped and smashed the gifts he’d given me, Cameron’s face went cold and he turned on me.

“Ava, how can your heart be so filthy?” he snapped. “Lila’s so fragile. Can’t you just give her a break?” “You’re so selfish. No wonder even your dad can’t stand you.”

Those words stabbed into me like a swarm of needles.

I forgot how to cry and just stared at him, blank and shaking.

The man who once promised to love me for life grabbed the deepest wounds I had and used them to rip me open.

Cameron frowned, turned around, and stormed out.

After that, he started showing up everywhere with Lila at his side.

When people asked what they were to each other, Lila would smile shyly.

Cameron, on the other hand, would admit it without hesitation.

“I like her,” he would say. “We’re together.”

I dropped weight fast, watching Lila take my entire world piece by piece.

She started sending me photos of her with Cameron, along with messages bragging about the gifts he’d put thought into for her.

Lila:[Ava, you’re useless.]

Lila:[Whatever you want, I’m not letting you have it.]

Like a form of self-punishment, I turned those words over and over, letting them carve me up from the inside.

After college graduation, Cameron asked to call off our engagement.

“I was too young back then,” he said. “Now I realize the one I like is Lila.”

I didn’t cling to him or fight, and I numbly agreed.

Once someone’s feelings change, you can’t make them stay.

That night, Cameron and I were both drugged and delivered into the same room.

When we woke up, we were naked, blinded by camera flashes.

The scandal made Mr. Caldwell Sr. explode in rage, and he harshly demanded that Cameron marry me.

Cameron was forced to kneel beneath the family portraits for three days and took dozens of lashes, but he still couldn’t change the decision.

After that, the way he looked at me was thick with unmistakable hatred.

On our wedding night, he fucked me—rough and relentless—until well past midnight.

Right before I lost consciousness, a message from Lila flashed onto my phone.

Lila:[Sis, if you want to break the engagement with Cameron, you should’ve gotten my permission first.]

Lila:[But I’m not going to let you, and he’ll hate you for the rest of his life, so you’d better be ready.]

My head spun, and my blood turned ice-cold.

After Cameron took over the company, he barely came home.

He said I was manipulative, that I used filthy tricks to claw my way into position.

He said just looking at me made him sick.

When we had sex, Cameron never used protection, and he never wore a condom.

The moment he realized I was pregnant, he’d drag me to the hospital to end it.

“Ava, you wanted to be Mrs. Caldwell,” he told me. “This is the price.”

In three years of marriage, he made me end four pregnancies.

Even when the doctor warned him in no uncertain terms, Cameron still did whatever he wanted, smiling coldly.

“You stole Lila’s place,” he said. “So you have to pay for it.”

I cried and begged him for a divorce, but he brushed my hand away and told me to stop dreaming.

Even the birth control pills I tried to hide were found and thrown out, every last one.

After another loss, I lay weak in bed, barely able to move.

Lila sent me a photo of a prenatal test.

Lila:[Sis, I’m pregnant, and Cameron’s been picking baby names these days.]

Lila:[Too bad some people are never going to see their own baby born.]

I couldn’t take it anymore, so I dragged myself there sick and weak to go find Lila.

The moment I was about to touch her, Lila deliberately threw herself to the floor.

Bright red blood seeped out, and Cameron came charging over, shoving me hard before scooping her up and sprinting for the hospital like he’d lost his mind.

Before he left, the last thing he said to me was, “If anything happens to Lila, I’ll make you pay with your life.”

The brakes squealed as the car came to a stop.

Cameron spoke coldly.

“We’re here.”