He Took Me For Weak And Helpless Chapter 04

He Took Me For Weak And Helpless Chapter 04

When Summer woke up, she was already in the hospital.

The nurse said Adrian had brought her there.

That whole hurt-you-then-play-sweet routine was something Adrian had done countless times before.

Every single time, it was just another way of mocking her for overestimating herself.

She struggled upright and slowly leaned against the headboard. Her face was pale and expressionless, but her dark eyes were full of pain and numbness.

Then the door to the room opened, and Adrian walked in carrying an insulated food container.

“I had the housekeeper make you some soup. It’ll help you recover.”

He set it down in front of her. When he looked up at her, his eyes held something complicated. “Summer, wouldn’t it be easier if you just behaved the way you used to?”

Summer lifted the spoon mechanically and brought the soup to her lips without saying a word.

“You’ve been good for the past two years, so why are you suddenly acting out now? You know perfectly well that you can’t survive without me.”

“No woman has taken your place these past two years. If you would just stay obedient like before, I’d heal your legs. Then you wouldn’t have to lie awake every time it rains because your legs hurt.”

She paused slightly.

So Adrian had known all along.

Ever since the crash, her legs had ached unbearably every time it rained. Even painkillers barely helped, but she had still gritted her teeth and pushed through rehab.

She still remembered the storm on Valentine’s Day last year.

That night, she had been busy dealing with one of Adrian’s little flings. Her leg was already hurting so badly she could barely stand. After she gave the woman some money and a condo, she had tried to hurry home to take her medication.

But the pain had gotten so intense that she collapsed on the spot.

In the end, it was Adrian’s mistress who took her to the hospital.

As the woman was leaving, she sneered at her and said, “So this is all the real Mrs. Carter amounts to? Adrian wouldn’t even answer your calls.”

“No wonder you don’t even dare get mad when your husband cheats. If I were you, I’d take as much money as I could. Don’t fool yourself into thinking a cripple like you can stay by his side forever.”

Later, Adrian told her he hadn’t answered because that little model had been too clingy.

Looking back on it now, all it did was strike her as laughable.

Adrian had known everything, and still he had let her suffer.

“I understand,” she said quietly, gripping the spoon so tightly her knuckles whitened.

At that, Adrian reached out and touched her face. “Looks like this time you really learned your lesson. Lola’s method worked pretty well. Summer, as long as you behave, I won’t treat you like that again.”

“Okay.”

She lowered her eyes and fought to keep her emotions under control.

As soon as Adrian left, she raised both hands and scrubbed hard at the place on her face where he had touched her, as though she could wipe away every trace of him, even after her cheeks were rubbed raw.

It was disgusting.

Truly disgusting.

The day Summer was discharged, she secretly had her leg checked again. Only after confirming that the drug had caused no side effects did she take a cab back to the villa.

She would not be able to fully let her guard down until the day she finally escaped.

Until then, Adrian could not be allowed to discover anything. If he did, she would never get out.

But the moment she stepped inside the villa, she froze.

The whole house was in ruins. Shards of broken glass littered the floor. Everything from the cabinets had been smashed and thrown down. The vase she had spent so long hunting for was now nothing but broken pieces.

The door was damaged, the kitchen looked like a disaster zone, and even the garden beside the house had been destroyed, its flowers wilted and ruined.

The entire place looked like it had been ransacked.

“Ah—Mrs. Carter, I’ll go right now—”

A maid came tumbling down the stairs, her face covered in bruises, panic filling her eyes. She didn’t even bother checking her own injuries before scrambling back to her feet.

Summer frowned and caught hold of her. “What happened here?”

The moment the maid saw Summer, tears rushed into her eyes. She spoke in a trembling, aggrieved voice. “M-Mrs. Carter, you’re finally back. Miss Monroe has been making our lives hell.”

“She’s the one who smashed everything. Mr. Carter hasn’t been coming home lately, and she kept forcing us to call her Mrs. Carter. He wouldn’t answer her calls, so she took it out on us.”

“And today… Mr. Carter went to a gala with another woman. Miss Monroe trashed the entire house and said that if we didn’t get him back here, she’d throw us out onto the street with nothing.”

The more the maid spoke, the harder she cried. A mark on her forehead showed what she had been through.

Summer was silent for a moment.

Then she took out her phone and transferred some money to the maid.

“Go get that bandaged at the hospital. This is compensation. And after today, don’t come back.”

“Th-thank you, Mrs. Carter.”

The maid had barely made it out the door when Lola came storming downstairs like a madwoman. Her face looked awful, and her eyes were blazing with fury and hatred.

“Summer!”

“You’d better clean this place up,” Summer said evenly. “Adrian hates it when people make a mess of his house.”

Lola didn’t care in the slightest.

“It was you, wasn’t it? You were jealous of me, so you sent all those women to Adrian just to make me jealous!”

Summer arched a brow. “You’re overthinking it. Adrian always has women around him. Besides, he never liked you in the first place. You’d better stop asking for trouble.”

“That’s bullshit! He loves me! I’m carrying his baby, and I’m about to become Mrs. Carter. Who the hell do you think you are?” Lola screamed, her shrill voice echoing through the villa.

Back when they were in school, Summer had already thought Lola was stupid.

Now she thought so even more.

“I told you already,” Summer said. “Do you really think that baby came to be all on its own?”