Goodbye, My Love novel Chapter 10

The villa was empty. There was nothing in the living room—it was as if the place had never been lived in.

Ansel, who'd hurried after Jordan, instinctively called out for Sabrina. "Mom? Mom!"

No one answered his calls, though. He finally panicked and clutched Jordan's hand, his eyes red. "Dad, where's Mom?"

Jordan was also panicked. He hurriedly pulled out his phone and called Sabrina. However, when the call connected, all he heard was a robotic message. "Sorry, the number you have dialed is no longer in service."

Ansel burst into tears. "I want Mom!"

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The news of Sabrina's disappearance spread through the city like wildfire, but what was worse than that was Jordan's affair.

The photos of him and Holly being intimate played on repeat on the city's billboards for a whole day. He spent a fortune taking them down, but netizens had still shared them online, ensuring they ended up on the trending topics.

Faust Group's stock price plummeted after the news broke out. The shareholders started doubting Jordan's ability to manage the company. They even considered asking Jordan's father, Charles Faust, who'd long since taken a back seat in running the company, to change the CEO.

Meanwhile, Ansel got bullied at kindergarten. The other children mocked him for being as shameless as his father. They made fun of him for calling a homewrecker his mother when his own mother was much better.

The children didn't know what these words really meant, but they'd heard their parents talking about it. Ansel was young, but he knew that the things the other children were saying couldn't be good. His teachers also started scorning him.

All of this led to him fearing going to kindergarten. He would hide in the villa and cry instead.

Jordan didn't have any time to bother about him because Holly was pregnant. Since being exposed for being a homewrecker, she'd been terminated from her position at Faust Group. The other people in her residential area had also thrown trash at her while telling her to get lost.

So what if he loved his wife dearly and doted on her to no end? He'd still grown impatient at the sight of her swollen limbs because of the pregnancy. All Holly had had to do was put on some sexy lingerie and beckon him with a hooked finger. Jordan had practically jumped her.

With that, she'd already been halfway to becoming Jordan's wife. It had helped that he had a son. She'd "accidentally" revealed that she'd graduated with a degree in early childhood education, and things had gone smoothly from there.

Sabrina hadn't been in the best of health after suffering from labor complications, and Jordan hadn't had a clue how to care for a newborn. Holly's appearance in his life had been a lifesaver.

All she'd had to do was give Ansel some snacks that Sabrina would never have given him and buy him toys Sabrina would never have bought. That had been enough to make him adore her more than he loved his mother.

Still, he couldn't compare to her own child. So, after Holly and Jordan had ended up in bed, she'd secretly spat out the birth control pills he'd asked her to take.

Thanks to all of that, she was sure she could replace Sabrina as Jordan's wife.