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“Vince, help me.”
Vince looked at her anxious face and her hands that tugged at his sleeve. Madison spoke calmly and firmly as though she had found her salvation.
“Be it chemotherapy or surgery, I’ll do anything as long as I can have more time to live …”
Only by living would she have the time to find out the truth and accompany her father for a longer time.
Vince did not understand what she had been through, but as long as she had the will to live, he, as a doctor, was positively delighted.
“Alright. I’ll arrange your first chemotherapy session right away.”
Vince scheduled Madison’s first round of chemo for the day after tomorrow to prevent her condition from deteriorating.
The chemo would come with a plethora of side effects. In the first two weeks, the patient would feel weak and experience hair loss.
That was why Madison would have to get everything sorted out before the session.
Although Jeff was still in a coma, at least Madison didn’t need to worry about paying off his medical bills. She made a payment at the hospital before heading back to the home that she used to share with Hunter.
She was worried that she might be too weak after chemo. Hence, she booked the services of a moving company before starting chemo. She was planning to move out of this place anyway.
Madison’s best friend, Everly Hilton, showed up in office wear. She strutted around in heels while clutching a crossbody. At the same time, she happened to be carrying two bags of chips as well.
Madison immediately heard her friend’s loud voice from afar. “Madie, you are finally free of suffering! I just received the commission from my property sale last month, so let me treat you to a fun night at the Dark Horse Clubhouse today! There are so many guys out there for you!”
Everly did not know about Madison’s diagnosis because she went abroad to visit her boyfriend in the same week Madison hid away. She simply thought that Madison had given it a good thought and decided to go for a divorce.
Madison chuckled in response. “No, that won’t work. I’m scared that your beau might show up and knock on my door right away when he hears about that.”
“Oh, drop it. I will never believe in long-distance relationships anymore. I wanted to show up and surprise him, but guess what? That fucker took my hard-earned commissions and spent it all on another bitch!”
Everly looked vicious, yet her eyes were filled with pain. Her seven-year relationship was over, all because they went long-distance.
Madison wanted to offer words of comfort, but at the thought of her messy marriage, she felt that she didn’t have the right to reassure others.
Instead, she remarked, “Knowing you, you must have caused quite a scene.”
Everly led Madison over to the bench by the flower garden and took a seat. She gave Madison a bag of chips while she started eating out of the other.
“My temper has long mellowed after all these years of a long-distance relationship. I had a bad feeling about this whole thing anyway. You can fall in love for many reasons, but you only need one to fall out of it.”
She stared into the misty sky and went on. “At the beginning, he’d fly across the globe just to see me on Valentine’s Day, even if he only had a few days off. Now, he hasn’t come home once in three years.
“He’d wished me good morning before he went to bed, but he didn’t text me as much in the last few years. I thought he was busy with his Ph.D. studies, so I started working part-time as a property agent just to support him financially, all while studying full-time.”
Everly’s sadness intensified. “What haven’t I done for money? And with the money from my commissions, I even bought him a house abroad.”
“Madie, this storyline is right out of a soap opera.” She continued to lament. “At one point, I thought I’d go mad. It was quite ridiculous, catching him cheating in the boxers that I bought for him.”
Everly was grinning, but tears rolled off her cheeks onto the bag of chips in her hand.
“I had to think twice before buying coffee. I lived so frugally just to support him. But what did I get in the end? I’m a prestigious med school student who was rushing between apartment viewings just to support a traitor. He might have even bought the condoms with my card.”
Madison reached out to hug her best friend. “Oh, please don’t cry. He isn’t worth your time.”
“That’s what I think too. Do you know how nice I was to him? I did not make a scene. I lit a cigarette and started calculating the money he had to pay me back. Thank God I put the house under my name. I evicted him and that bitch that same night.”
Madison was rather taken aback by Everly’s decisiveness. “So, did he agree to everything?”
“Of course not. He immediately fell to his knees and wanted me to forgive him when I asked for the house and money back. When I saw him crying in front of me, I wondered what made me fall for him in the first place.
“Anyway, I stayed around for a couple of days to sell off the house and cut all ties with him before I came home.”
Everly quickly wiped away her tears and continued, “Madie, we’re long past the age of believing in romantic love. We have to choose between love and bread, right? You didn’t like it when I told you to get a divorce a year ago, so I’m glad that you finally thought it through. Just from your divorce settlement with Hunter Williams alone, you would be able to last for a few lifetimes and then some.”
Everly smiled once she finished her last chip. “Look, even if you lost your man, you could spend his hard-earned wealth on ten different smoking hot dudes. Isn’t that awesome?”
Madison coughed awkwardly. “Um, I only got ten million dollars from Hunter.”
“What? The audacity of that cheating bastard to offer you only ten million …” Everly gasped in disbelief. “Wasn’t he very generous to you? Since when did he become so stingy? It’s not like he’s short of money.”
Madison didn’t explain further. “When a man’s in love, he’ll give you the moon. When he’s no longer into you, you’re worse than trash. Let’s not talk about him. I wanted you here to help me with moving out.”
“Sure. I’ll treat you to a nice dinner after this.”
Madison smiled. “Okay.”
Almost everything in the villa belonged to Hunter, so there wasn’t much for her to pack. It was less of a move-out and more of a dropping by to pick up her belongings.
A wedding photo was hung on the wall. Madison could be seen smiling brightly in the photo. Even Hunter, who always looked serious, managed to crack a smile too.
The thought of Hunter and his affair pissed Everly off. “How are you going to deal with these wedding photos? I mean, you can always recycle them in exchange for some money for chips. Or maybe set them on fire.”
Madison shook her head. “It’s okay. Everything should be split into half in a divorce.” She ordered a housekeeper to take out all the photos from their frames, cut out her images, and put the photos back.
The only room that she was reluctant to leave behind was her self-designed nursery that Hunter helped decorate. She didn’t want Andrea’s child to move into that nursery.
One year after setting up the nursery, she finally decided to move the cot out and had the movers remove all the decorations in there.
Surprisingly enough, it only took a few hours to remove the things that took countless days and sleepless nights to create. The memories that had accumulated over the entire year went into the trash can alongside those things as well.
Standing at the entrance to the villa, she recalled the excitement when she had first moved in. Her sorrows were a vast contrast to the joy on her move-in day. She probably hadn’t imagined her marriage headed toward destruction.
Taking a final look, she bid goodbye to her past self and left. She then walked up to Everly. “Eve, come with me to the salon.”
Everly patted her on the shoulder. “Great! Let’s celebrate your new start with new hair! Time to put those bastards behind us! I’m going to dye my hair a nice shade of pink! What about you, Madie?”
Madison replied without hesitation, “I want it short.”