Chapter 5

I looked at him blankly. "Let's divorce, Ethan."

Ethan gave me a bizarre look. "You're insane."

"I'm going to call Leo right now and let him know how his mother is using him to lie to me."

"Let's see if he still wants you as his mother after this."

To prove his point, Ethan pulled out his phone and dialed the number to Leo's smartwatch.

His fingers were shaking.

I knew there would only be silence on the other end.

No one was going to answer and call him "Daddy" ever again.

The sweet little boy who used to jump into his arms was now a pile of ashes in my hands.

As the call kept ringing with no answer, panic finally crept onto Ethan's face. He looked up at me, then at the box.

He muttered, "No... that's impossible. How could my son be dead?"

Ethan lunged forward to grab the urn.

I held onto it tightly, refusing to let him touch it.

In the struggle, the urn slipped.

*Smash.*

The box hit the concrete floor and shattered. The gray-white ashes spilled out across the ground.

My mind went entirely blank. Instinctively, I dropped to my knees, desperately trying to scoop the ashes back up.

But God was cruel. A gust of wind swept through the courtyard.

The ashes scattered into the air, flying away.

My heart shattered into a million pieces. I screamed on the ground, "No! No! Please, no!"

The ashes slipped through my fingers.

I watched them disappear into the wind, just like how my son had died in my arms.

I looked up at Ethan, who was standing there, paralyzed.

Our eyes met. His face was ghostly pale, his voice trembling. "You're lying to me... where is Leo?"

Even now, he was in denial.

He was the accomplice who killed our son, and now, he wouldn't even let him rest in peace.

A raging fire consumed my chest. I lost all sanity. I wanted to kill this monster.

I grabbed Ethan's collar, raised my hand, and slapped him across the face over and over again.

Ethan was too dazed to even fight back.

"He's right here, Ethan! Are you blind? Can't you see him?"

I kicked him hard in the chest. "You scattered your own son's ashes!"

I screamed until my throat bled.

Ethan finally seemed to realize what he had done. His body stiffened, and he began to shake violently.